Mechanism for transferring articles from one machine to another, with a store automatically acting as bag, particularly adapted for automatic wrapping machine and the like

Claim 1

TRANSFER MECHANISM FOR ARTICLES TRAVELING FROM A DELIVERY MACHINE TO A RECEPTION MACHINE AND HAVING A HIGH CAPACITY FOR AUTOMATIC STORAGE OF ARTICLES COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF CONVEYOR MEANS FOR THE ARTICLES, SAID CONVEYOR MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF EQUALLY SPACED ARTICLE RECEIVING AND POSITIONING MEANS, FIRST AND LAST STATIONS AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, EQUALLY SPACED TRANSFER STATIONS ALONG SAID CONVEYOR MEANS BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND LAST STATIONS, MEANS FOR INTERMITTENTLY DRIVING SAID CONVEYOR MEANS TO ADVANCE SAID ARTICLES TO SUCCESSIVE TRANSFER STATIONS, MEANS FOR LATERALLY INDIVIDUALLY FEEDING SAID ARTICLES INTO SAID ARTICLES RECEIVING AND POSITIONING MEANS ON SAID CONVEYOR AT SAID FIRST STATION, A PUSHER MEMBER AT SAID LAST STATION, DRIVING MEANS TO RECIPROCATE SAID PUSHER MEMBER TRANSVERSELY ALONG SAID CONVEYOR TO PUSH ARTICLES OUT OF SAID ARTICLE RECEIVING AND POSITIONING MEANS TOWARDS SAID RECEPTION MACHINE, VERTICAL STORAGE MAGAZINES ABOVE EACH OF SAID TRANSFER STATIONS TO CONTAIN ARTICLES CHARGED THEREIN, EACH SAID STORAGE MAGAZINE BEING PROVIDED AT ITS LOWER END WITH OPPOSED RETAINING TEETH, MEANS FOR RELEASABLY CLOSING SAID RETAINING TEETH BENEATH