Machine for packaging solid articles

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES IN A PACKET ADAPTED TO BE OPENED BY SUCTION MEANS INCIDENTAL TO THRUSTING INTO A PACKET THE ARTICLE TO BE CONTAINED THEREIN, AND WHEREIN THE PACKETS ARE TO BE ADVANCED ONE-BY-ONE FROM A SUPPLY MAGAZINE TO A FILLING STATION IN THE MACHINE: MEANS DEFINING A FILLING STATION WHERE EACH ARTICLE TO BE PACKAGED IS TO BE THRUST INTO AN OPEN PACKET; A FIRST FEED MEANS INCLUDING A REPICIPROCAL DELIVERY ELEMENT HAVING A STROKE IN A FIRST DIRECTION FOR DELIVERING AN ARTICLE FILLING STATION AND FOR THRUSTING THE ARTICLE INTO AN OPEN PACKET, SAID FIRST FEED MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF JUXTAPOSED SUCTION ELEMENTS EFFECTIVE TO GRIP AND OPEN OPPOSED SIDES OF A PACKET TO ENABLE THE ARTICLE TO BE THRUST INTO THE OPEN END OF THE PACKET, MEANS FOR GUIDING SAID SUCTION ELEMENTS TO PRODUCE RECIPROCAL STROKES THEREFOR IN A DIRECTION SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO THE STROKES OF THE DELIVERY ELEMENT TO ENABLE THE SUCTION ELEMENTS TO GRIP AND THEN OPEN THE PACKET, SAID GUIDE MEANS ALSO INDUCING RECIPROCAL STROKES OF THE SUCTION ELEMENTS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST DIRECTION TO MOVE A PACKET FROM ADJACENT THE SUPPLY MAGAZINE TO THE FILLING STATION; A SECOND FEED MEANS INCLUDING A RECIPROCAL EXTRACTOR FOR EXTRACTING A PACKET FROM THE SUPPLY MAGAZINE IN THE MACHINE IN THE COURSE OF A STROKE THEREOF AND DEPOSITING THE EXTRACTED PACKET IN POSITION TO BE GRIPPED BY SAID SUCTION ELEMENTS; AND MEANS FOR SYNCHRONIZING THE EXTRACTION STROKE OF THE EXTRACTOR WITH THE GRIPPING OF AN EXTRACTED PACKET BY SAID SUCTION ELEMENTS.