Patent ID: 6966423

Claim:
A station for connecting a packaging machine, in particular a blistering machine, with a feeding line associated to a boxing machine, the station comprising: an endless conveyor having an upper run moving in a forward movement direction and oriented in a substantially horizontal plane to define an inlet section, situated upstream, where said upper run of the conveyor receives articles from a blistering machine, and an outlet section, situated downstream and cooperating with a feeding line of a boxing machine; two series of carriages, respectively, even carriages and odd carriages, each carriage carrying at least one article; means, cooperating with said conveyor, spaced out with respect to the forward movement direction, for supporting and guiding said carriages, said means permitting crosswise motion of the carriages with respect to said forward movement direction; first and second means, cooperating with said conveyor, operating crosswise with respect to the forward movement direction, for shifting said carriages from a first configuration, near the inlet section, in which said even carriages are longitudinally offset, that is transversely spaced apart, with respect to the odd carriages, to a second configuration, near said outlet section, in which said even carriages are aligned with said odd carriages with respect to the forward movement direction, and, a first plate, situated near said inlet section and substantially coplanar with the carriages for receiving the articles coming from the blistering machine; said first plate having at least two longitudinal channels, a first channel and a second channel, situated one beside the other, whose lateral sides support the articles, which are to be taken by respective odd carriages and even carriages in their first offset configuration.