Patent ID: 8434611

Claim:
A system for supplying articles to a platform rotating about a vertical axis, the platform exhibiting seatings (K) conformed for receiving corresponding articles ( 10 ), vertical axes (B) of which are situated on a circumference (C 1 ) which is coaxial to an axis of the platform ( 60 ), the vertical axes (B) being angularly equidistanced such as to define a predetermined operating step (Po), the system comprising: a straight-developing line ( 50 ), supplied with articles ( 10 ), for intermittently transferring the articles ( 10 ) at an intermediate step (Ps) which is lower than the operating step (Po) to a terminal station (Q); at least an article pick-up-and-transfer member ( 19 ), interposed between the line ( 50 ) and the platform ( 60 ), borne by a device ( 1 ) activated in phase relation with the movement of the line ( 50 ) and platform ( 60 ), destined, with an operating head ( 21 ) thereof, to engage the article situated at the terminal station (Q) in an inclined direction with respect to the straight development (S) of the line ( 50 ), and subsequently to transfer the article to a corresponding seating (K) of the platform ( 60 ) in order to define, for the vertical axis (Z) of the article, a trajectory which develops in an arc of circumference (C 2 ) tangential to the circumference (C 1 ) on which the axes (B) of the seatings (K) are arranged and with a peripheral velocity which is equal to a velocity (Vp) of the axes (B), and, wherein the inclined direction is a sum of two components which are respectively parallel and perpendicular to the straight development of the line, the perpendicular component being of a greater entity than the parallel component.