Automatic separator device for filling boxes with tubes

摘要

The device comprises sets of paddles hinge connected at preset distances from one another to closed loop entrainment chains, rotatively mounted around a drum, on the exterior thereof, for discharging tubes into individual boxes which are arranged on an intermittently operated feeding belt moving beneath said discharge drum, there being further provided control means for controlling the intermittent feeding movement of said paddle entrainment means synchronously with the box feeding means, thereby the paddles in each set are caused to progressively enter a box during the final stroke thereof into a position underlying the discharge drum, and then stay within the box during the time when the latter's bins are being filled in succession, and lastly progressively move out of the box upon completion of the filling step.