Abstract: A device for the buffering of objects, with two parallel conveyors which can be driven in opposite directions, and with a transfer installation which can be moved by means of at least one linear guide along the conveyors, for the transfer of objects between the conveyors, where at least one linear guide is arranged with separation above a conveyor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a switcher for product supply lines, which comprises a support frame (2), a guide channel (8) which is transversally mobile on the support frame (2) with respect to the advancing direction of the products being supplied in inlet. The switcher (1) comprises a telescopic channel (10), located at an end (9) of the guide channel (8), and being slidably mobile with respect thereto. The guide channel (8) is mobile by a support element (6), slidable on respective transversal portions (4, 5) of the support frame (2). The support element (6) is in turn activated by cooperation between a cursor (13), slidable on the support element (6), and a con rod (15), hinged both to the cursor (13) and to a fixed transversal portion (4) of the support frame (2). The guide channel (8) is further provided with a separator device (20) for controlled distancing of the products which are grouped during the input supply stage.

Abstract: The switcher comprises a support frame (2), a guide channel (13) rotatably mobile about a fixed axis (8) and a telescopic channel (15) located at an end (14) of the guide channel (13) and being slidable with respect thereto. The switcher (1) comprises a support element (6), connected to the guide channel (13), having a first end (7) hinged to a first transversal portion (4) of the frame (2) at the fixed axis (8), a first cursor (16) slidable on the support element (6) and connected to the telescopic channel (15), a second cursor (17) slidable on the support element (6) and a con rod (21) having a first end (22) hinged to the first transversal portion (4) of the frame (2) and a second end (24) hinged to the second cursor (17). The invention also relates to a machine for separating or grouping products provided with the switcher (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the presence of a workpiece carrier in a predetermined track portion of a workpiece carrier transporting path has a housing, a slider which is displaceably guided in the housing and is displaced by the workpiece carrier, at least one proximity switch which is releasable by the slider, two turning elements provided with teeth and arranged on the housing, each of the turning elements being supported turnably around an axis provided on the housing, the turning elements being in tooth engagement with one another, the turning elements being also in tooth engagement with linear tooth sets provided on opposite sides of the slider and extending in a linear displacement direction.

Abstract: A circulating car conveyor has a code-resetting device at each code-reading station in which the resetting elements can be extended into the path of code-setting markers on the sides of the cars in a busy condition of the station, to hold the code-setting markers as the car continues to move past, thereby resetting the markers into an initial position and returning the cars to a starting point. The retaining member is resiliently biased against the code-setting markers or into the path with a force greater than that required to shift the marker along its guide but less than that required to transport the car along the path.

Abstract: A goods dispatch container having a superimposed lid for the dispatch of goods from the wholesale warehouse to the customer having two rows of ten marking points on the upper side of the lid which are provided with symbols and two are identified with additional marking pieces.