Patent ID: 7770363

Claim:
A method for filling cells of a blister strip with corresponding articles, the blister strip being continuously advanced along an advancement direction at a predetermined operating speed, which comprises in order: contemporaneously collecting a plurality of articles in reciprocal contact which are arranged in a plurality of distinct parallel rows, a predetermined number of articles destined for collection corresponding to each row; adjusting reciprocal positions occupied by the articles after collection in such a way that the articles are arranged in a same spatial arrangement as a same number of empty cells of a predetermined first longitudinal region of the blister strip; transferring the collected articles to a position which is above the blister strip and aligned with the first longitudinal region to be filled, and conveying the articles in a same direction as an advancement direction of the blister strip until synchronization with an operating speed of the blister strip is achieved, the articles being centered relative to the cells of the underlying first region; releasing the articles into corresponding cells of the first region; repeating the above-listed operating stages in order to fill cells of at least a second longitudinal region of the blister strip, which region is identical and adjacent to the first region, thus completing a filling of the cells of a longitudinal tract of the blister strip which the first and second regions constitute; repetition of the filing stages on further consecutive, longitudinal tracts of the blister strip.