Patent ID: 7165666

Claim:
Store for stocking tubes therein comprising: means for feeding tubes into the store, and means for unloading the tubes therefrom, the store being located between said feed means and said unloading means; a plurality of supports each of which defines a plane inclined towards said unloading means and able to receive a plurality of tubes from said supply means: each of said supports being movable between a stand-by position where it is empty, a position of transit of tubes in which it defines an inclined plane which connects said tube-supplying means to said tube-unloading means, and a stock position in which it is full up; each of said supports consisting of a central bar or cross-piece to which rods are fixed orthogonally thereto and the said supports being connected to each other via two open side chains, store characterized in that the said side chains are connected to said bars or cross pieces.