TRANSFER DEVICE FOR BAG PACKAGE

PURPOSE: To provide a packaging machine that packs plural rows of bagged article by arranging so as to mutually overlap one another, and applicable to unspecified number of rows above 4 and to either lateral or longitudinal packing. CONSTITUTION: A pawing plate 21 laterally discharges a bagged article S from a conveyor and mount it on a sawtooth receiving seat 31 of a chain mechanism by rotating an end of a special link mechanism. When this action is repeated, the receiving seat is transferred by one pitch after another along with the chain, sucked to move with sucking pad 32 by one stage after another because bagged articles S are lined up in slanted posture, and dropped as they are into a receiving box to be either laterally packed or longitudinally packed at a time with a pushing plate after once piled stepwise.