Apparatus for disposing magnetic tape cassettes in an orderly manner into respective housing trays and method put into practice thereby

摘要

A plurality of tape cassettes (3) fed in succession from a conveyor (2) is oriented vertically on an end stretch (5) of the conveyor itself terminating at a position in side by side relation with a tiltable collection element (21). The cassettes (3) are pushed laterally from the end stretch (5) of the feed conveyor (2) for being loaded onto the collection element (21) until they form thereon a row (F) comprised of a given number of cassettes (3). The collection element (21) is then tilted to let the cassette row (F) fall onto a tray (29) previously positioned under the collection element (21).