Patent ID: 8453821

Claim:
A device for transporting articles within a packaging machine, comprising: at least one conveying system for articles to be packaged or for packaging units for the articles to be packaged, whereby the conveying system includes a continuously circulating transport track and whereby each conveying system has a beginning and an end; several processing stations being provided along the at least one conveying system, and a robot being associated with at least one of these processing stations; the at least one conveying system having several trays connectable to each individual transport track, the conveying system being configured with an upper level and a lower level; a first lifting unit being associated with the conveying system at the beginning and a second lifting unit being associated with the conveying system at the end, the first and second lifting units moving the trays at the beginning and at the end of the conveying system between the upper level and the lower level; wherein the trays have several latching elements that, if necessary, can be made to engage with the transport track in the direction of the upper level or lower level of the conveying system; wherein the latching elements are configured as pairs of toothed racks opposite from each other which have several teeth and which, depending on the position of the trays, engage in the transport track that is configured as a chain and align themselves relative to chain link studs of the transport track.