Automatic article processing mechanism for timed continuous operation

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A TWISTER MECHANISM FOR COMPLETING THE WRAPPING OF UNIFORM PARTIALLY WRAPPED ARTICLES COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ROTARY SHAFTS, ARTICLE ENGAGING MEMBERS PIVOTALLY MOUNTED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER IN OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION WITH EACH OF SAID SHAFTS TO CAUSE THEIR APPROACH AND SEPARATION RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, GEAR SEGMENTS IN MESHING ENGAGEMENT COMPRISING MEANS FOR EFFECTING THE RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF SAID ARTICLE ENGAGING MEANS TO GRASP THE ENDS OF THE WRAPPERS TO IMPART A TWIST THERETO RELATIVE TO THE ARTICLES WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVING IN A RECTILINEAR PATH THEREWITH, MEANS FOR ROTATING AND LINEARLY DISPLACING SAID ARTICLE ENGAGING MEMBERS IN A RECTILINEAR PATH IN SYNCHRONIZED RELATION WITH AND DURING THE DISPLACEMENT OF PREFORMED UNIFORM ARTICLES THEREWITH ALONG SAID RECTILINEAR PATH, SAID ENGAGING MEMBERS BEING IN UNIFORM SPACED RELATION TO EACH OTHER, AND MEANS COMPRISING INTERCONNECTED CHAIN LINKS TO CONTROL THE OPERATION OF SAID MEANS FOR EFFECTING THE RELATIVE MOVEMENT, ROTARY MOVEMENT AND LINEAR MOVEMENT OF SAID ARTICLE ENGAGING MEANS IN A CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION TO SAID WRAPPER END TWISTING MEANS AND THEIR RECTILINEAR MOVEMENT DURING WHICH LINEAR MOVEMENT THE ARTICLE ENGAGING MEMBERS AND THE PARTIALLY WRAPPED ARTICLES ARE MECHANICALLY CONFRONTED AND SPACED FOR LINEAR DISPLACEMENT IN SYNCHRONIZED RELATION WITH THE PROCESSING OF THE PREFORMED SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM ARTICLES.