Patent ID: 6910849

Claim:
A method of turning over stacks of products on a cartoning machine, the method comprising: feeding a group of products arranged in at least one stack to a turnover station; feeding the group of products into a container at the turnover station; turning over the container about an axis and from a first position to a second position turned 90° with respect to said first position so as to turned over through 90° the group; moving a push device from a rest position to a feeding position and through a first passage of the container so as to bring the push device into contact with the turned-over group and to expel the turned-over group from the container; turning over the empty container about the axis and from the second position to the first position while the push device is in the feeding position; and moving the push device from the feeding position to the rest position and through a second passage of the container perpendicular to the first passage when the container is in the first position.