Patent ID: 6868957

Claim:
Apparatus for the transfer of a product between two horizontal, consecutive and angularly spaced conveyor lines without changing the spatial orientation of that product, comprising: thrust units parallel to the downstream line and recirculated by conveyor equipment with horizontal axes located between said conveyor lines; said thrust units, when travelling along one branch of the conveyor, being placed behind and on one side of the direction of travel of the product to be moved and transferred to the downstream line while keeping the product in its original spatial orientation, the thrust units comprising horizontal bars which have fixed to them a transverse stop for supporting the side of the products in the direction of travel, said bars being anchored at their ends by articulated joints, a pair of positive opposed conveyors with horizontal axes parallel to each other and longitudinally spaced apart in the direction of travel of the opposed conveyors, said opposed conveyors being activated so as to operate with their active branch running, in the direction from the upstream line to the downstream line and at an identical speed to each other and such that one of the said bars is placed behind the product supplied from the upstream line while the transverse stop of this bar is placed on one side of the same product, which is thus transferred from the first to the second conveyor line without changing its own spatial orientation.