Patent ID: 7607282

Claim:
A machine for packaging a product or products into a cardboard box in a boxing cycle comprising at least three successive operations for making up, filling and sealing the box, the machine comprising: boxing means which are arranged along a longitudinal packaging line of the machine comprising, from an upstream end to downstream, a first, making-up, station which receives a succession, at a given rate, of box blanks intended to be at least partially made up and comprising a conveyor device for successively transferring in a downstream direction in an outbound path the box which has thus been made up toward a second, filling, station at which the products are packed into the box by associated loading means able to deposit the products that are to be packaged in the box, and then on to a third, box-sealing, station at which the box is sealed before it is discharged from the machine, wherein the conveyor device comprises a carriage which is mounted to be able to move longitudinally, in both an upstream direction and the downstream direction, and back and forth between an extreme upstream position and an extreme downstream position, and which bears box transfer means comprising at least a first gripper for transferring a made-up box from the first station to the second station and a second gripper for simultaneously transferring another, filled, box from the second station to the third station.