There is described a feeding unit for feeding at least one sealed pack of pourable food products to a folding unit configured to form folded packages from relative pack; feeding unit comprising: a feeding conveyor; at least one push member movable cyclically along path and comprising, in turn, a wall adapted to contact pack; and a support for supporting push member on feeding conveyor; path comprising an inlet station at which push member receives, in use, pack, and an outlet station, at which push member discharges, in use, pack; path comprises a first curved stretch which defines outlet station; push member is connected to support in such a way that the movement of support along first portion causes the movement of wall towards feeding conveyor.

The present disclosure is directed to a flighted conveyor insert for robotic picking of food products and a flighted conveyor having the same. In one forth, an insert for a flighted conveyor, such as a bucket chain, defines a forward edge configured for insertion through an aperture of a flight of the flighted conveyor such that when the insert is attached to the flight, the forward edge is positioned on a first side of the flight; and a rear edge configured such that when the insert is attached to the flight, the rear edge is positioned on a second side of the flight that is oppose to the first side of the flight.

The invention relates to a transport device (1) for goods to be transported, comprising a transport rake (2) with at least one receiving region (20) for the goods to be transported and a slide arrangement (3) which is arranged in a longitudinally slidable manner along a transport plane in a transport direction (I), said slide arrangement (3) being equipped with at least one lever (4) which can be pivoted about a rotational axis (II) oriented substantially perpendicular to the transport plane. The transport rake (2) is mounted on the slide arrangement (3) by means of the at least one lever (4), and a drive device (5) comprising a first drive unit (50) and a second drive unit (51) is provided. A sliding movement of the slide arrangement (3) can be produced by the first drive unit (50), and a pivoting movement of the at least one lever (4) can be produced by means of the second drive unit (51) so that selectively a travel movement of the slide arrangement (3) and the transport rake (2) in the transport direction (I) and/or a plunging movement of the transport rake (2) perpendicularly to the transport direction (I) can be produced by means of a coordinated control of the drive units (50, 51). The invention further relates to a system comprising at least one transport device and to a method for operating a transport device for goods to be transported.

In the method of the invention for conveying bulk goods by means of a conveying device comprising a conveying channel and at least two conveying elements (266, 269) arranged loosely in the conveying channel, the conveying elements are mechanically driven in the conveying direction in a first section of the conveying channel, before bulk goods are fed into the conveying channel in a second section of the conveying channel. The bulk goods are conveyed by movement of the conveying elements along the conveying direction in a third section of the conveying channel, wherein in this third section of the conveying channel the first conveying element (269) is pressed by the second conveying element (266) and/or the bulk goods through the conveying channel in the conveying direction. The invention also comprises a conveying device for carrying out this method.

There is described a feeding unit for feeding at least one sealed pack of pourable food products to a folding unit configured to form folded packages from relative pack; feeding unit comprising: a feeding conveyor; at least one push member movable cyclically along path and comprising, in turn, a wall adapted to contact pack; and a support for supporting push member on feeding conveyor; path comprising an inlet station at which push member receives, in use, pack, and an outlet station, at which push member discharges, in use, pack; path comprises a first curved stretch which defines outlet station; push member is connected to support in such a way that the movement of support along first portion causes the movement of wall towards feeding conveyor.