APPARATUS FOR PLACING CONES IN A BOX

The invention relates to the domain of arranging at least one layer of cones previously formed by a production apparatus, for example ice-cream cornets or filled paperbags in a box. The invention has as its purpose to provide an apparatus adapted to perform such operation. To that purpose the invention provides an apparatus placing at least one layer of cones (6), for example, icecream cornets or filled paperbags previously formed by a production and delivered in two groups in a box (28), said apparatus comprising two parallel, double, endless conveyor apparatus (7,8) each consisting of two transport ropes driven with equal speeds and being spaced apart by a fixed distance, said ropes taking over the cones (6) at equal intervals from the cone production apparatus (5) in a manner such that the cones will hang vertically at equal distances between the two ropes (11, 12) of the respective conveying apparatus, guid member (21) provided at the end of the pairs of transport ropes for depositing the cones (6) supplied by one pair of ropes with their cone ends directed towards one side of the conveyor belt in horizontal positions and for depositing the cones supplied by the other pair of ropes with a phase difference of 180 DEG with their cone ends directed towards the other side of the conveyor belt in a horizontal position thereof so that the cones alternatively in opposite senses will @@ transversely of the conveyor belt and a grab (18) provided at the end of the conveyor belt for picking up from said belt a predetermined number of adjacent cones halted at an end stop (19) and placing them in the standby box (28).