Patent ID: 8752691

Claim:
A switcher, comprising a support structure; a first conveyor element associated to the support structure and mobile in rotation at an inlet end thereof about a first tilting axis; a second conveyor element associated to the support structure and mobile in rotation at an outlet end thereof about a second tilting axis; and a movement device configured for moving the first and the second conveyor elements about the respective tilting axes thereof, the movement device configuring the first and the second conveyor element between a condition of substantial alignment in which a mobile end of the first conveyor element opposite the inlet end and a mobile element of the second conveyor element opposite the outlet end are in reciprocal proximity and substantially flanked and a switching condition in which the mobile ends are distanced from one another in order to enable a passage of one or more objects which are crossing between the mobile ends, the movement device comprising a main oscillating arm which is mobile about a rotation axis, wherein the movement device is slidably coupled both to the first and to the second conveyor element, a sliding coupling zone to the first conveyor element being arranged in an opposite position to a respective sliding coupling zone to the second conveyor element with respect to the rotation axis of the main oscillating arm, wherein no drive transmission shaft is present having an axis coinciding with the rotation axis.