Patent ID: 7143567

Claim:
Unit for packaging and palletizing rolls of toilet paper and/or kitchen towel characterized in that it comprises a bagging and/or forming machine ( 20 ), suitable to sort several packages containing a plurality of rolls, called loose packages ( 11 ), into batches ( 12 ), and optionally to bag said sorted loose packages ( 11 ) in a bag ( 13 ) made of a plastic material, and a palletizing station or area ( 30 ) comprising at least one robot or manipulator ( 31 ) provided with grippers to handle batches ( 12 ) of sorted products composed of loose packages ( 11 ) or of a bag ( 13 ), wherein said batches ( 12 ) delivered from said bagging and/or forming machine ( 20 ) are conveyed to said palletizing station ( 30 ) with a predetermined stepped sequence and spaced from one another in at least one row on a conveyer element ( 21 ), wherein said at least one robot ( 31 ) and said bagging and/or forming machine ( 20 ) are electronically interconnected and are programmed respectively to sort and handle said products in batches ( 12 ), loose packages ( 11 ) or bags ( 13 ), of different forms and dimensions according to a sequence, continuously variable in a predetermined and programmable way, to form a layer (is) of a pallet ( 16 ) with different batches ( 12 ) of products adjacent to and engaged with one another which also comprises downstream of the at least one robot ( 31 ) to pick up the batches ( 12 ) of products, a further picking-up robot ( 32 ) which picks up said layer ( 15 ) and stacks it on a pallet base ( 17 ) or on other layers ( 15 ) to form a pallet ( 16 ).