Patent ID: 8863936

Claim:
An apparatus for transporting packagings that are not freely stackable from a packaging producing apparatus to a transport container in a transport packaging station with simultaneous compacting arrangement of the packagings, the packagings being produced by the packaging producing apparatus, having at least two dropping channels, which are uniformly or substantially uniformly spaced apart from each other by a centre-to-centre distance P, the apparatus comprising: a first transport element having at least one compartment group adapted to receive the packagings dispensed by the packaging producing apparatus and transport the packagings in the direction of the transport packaging station; a transfer unit adapted to transport the packagings from the packaging producing apparatus to the at least one compartment group of the first transport element and form stacks in the compartment group; a second transport element having at least one compartment group adapted to transport the packagings to the transport packaging station, the compartments of the compartment groups of the first and the second transport element each having a width equal or substantially equal to the width of the packagings, wherein: the compartment group of the first transport element has at least f compartments, and f corresponds to the number F of the dropping channels or a multiplicity thereof, a centre-to-centre distance X of the compartments of the first transport element corresponds (X=P) or substantially corresponds to the centre-to-centre distance P of the dropping channels, a centre-to-centre distance Y of the compartments of the second transport element corresponds or substantially corresponds to half (Y=P/2) the centre-to-centre distance P of the dropping channels, and the apparatus further comprises a second transfer unit adapted to transfer the packagings from the first transport element to the second transport element, wherein a positioner is assigned to the apparatus for positioning the compartment group of the first transport element relative to the compartment group of the second transport element.