ARTICLE GUIDE APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article guide apparatus designed so as to correspond to changes in the sizes of a container and a storing space, and capable of guiding even a flat or a non-circular container into a box without hindrance. SOLUTION: A guide means 12 includes three guide sections 12A, 12B, 12C for guiding containers 3 into a box. Each of the guide sections 12A, 12B, 12C is provided with six rectangular guide holes 15, and guide pieces 16A, 16B are mounted at four sides of each guide hole 15, respectively. When the size of the containers 3 is changed, the length of two sides of each guide hole 15, which are located in the X-direction, among the four sides thereof is changed, and each guide hole 15 is designed so as to be expanded and contracted in the X-direction. Even in the case where the length of the two sides located in the X-direction is changed, the guide pieces 16A, 16A provided at the two sides are designed so as to be positioned at the central part in the longitudinal direction of each of the two sides, respectively.