Product feeder for cartoning machine

Claim 1

IN A FEEDER OF THE CHARACTER DISCLOSED, AN INFEED CONVEYOR FOR SPACED UNITS OF PRODUCT ADAPTED TO BE LOCATED SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIVE TO A FIRST CONVEYOR AND TO MOVE IN THE SAME DIRECTION AND AT THE SAME SPEED AS THE FIRST CONVEYOR, A STATIONARY SHELF BETWEEN SAID CONVEYORS, A SPACE-BAR GRATING FORMING A CONTINUATION OF SAID SHELF, AND MEANS FOR PUSHING PRODUCT FROM SAID INFEED CONVEYOR ACROSS SAID SHELF AND GRATING, AND ONTO SAID FIRST CONVEYOR COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PUSHERS SPACED THE SAME AS THE UNITS OF PRODUCT ON SAID INFEED CONVEYOR, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID PUSHERS FOR TRAVEL AT AN ANGLE CROSSING SAID INFEED CONVEYOR AND AT A SPEED IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID INFEED CONVEYOR WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE INFEED CONVEYOR SPEED WHEREBY SAID PUSHERS SUCCESSIVELY ENGAGE THE SPACED UNITS OF PRODUCT AND MOVE THEM LATERALLY FROM SAID INFEED CONVEYOR, ACROSS SAID SHELF AND GRATING, AND ONTO SAID FIRST CONVEYOR, THE BARS OF SAID GRATING EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF SAID PUSHERS SAID INFEED CONVEYOR INCLUDING SPACED SLATS TRANSVERSELY THEREOF AND SAID PUSHERS INCLUDING EXTENSIONS WHICH TRAVEL IN THE SPACES BETWEEN SAID SLATS AND IN THE SPACES BETWEEN THE BARS OF SAID GRATING.