Patent ID: 7131252

Claim:
An apparatus for automatically packaging a plurality of encased products, each comprising a product sealed in a case barrel and a cap mounted on the case barrel, in a packaging sheet, comprising: an arraying and supplying station for forcibly arraying and supplying said encased products to orient said caps in one direction; a sorting station for selectively sorting said encased products to a first feed path and a second feed path; means for forming the arrayed encased products in the first feed path in a first attitude and the encased products in the second feed path in a second attitude different from said first attitude; and a packaging station for packaging a given number of said encased products arrayed in said first attitude by said first feed path or said encased products arrayed in said second attitude by said second feed path, with said packaging sheet, wherein said first attitude is an attitude to array said encased products abreast, and said second attitude is an attitude to array said encased products tandem.