Apparatus for wrapping confectionery products and the like

Abstract

The apparatus for wrapping confectionery products and the like comprises a device for feeding the products to be wrapped, an organ for extracting such products from the aforesaid feeding device able to co-operate with a device dispensing a piece of material in sheet form, a wrapping head with pincers, rotating according to a horizontal axis to bring individual products with a respective piece of material in sheet form in correspondence with a series of operative stations. The feeding device comprises a circular disk, positioned horizontally and rotating about a vertical axis, which presents, peripherally distributed, a series of recesses for the reception of respective products, open outwards, each provided, in correspondence with the lower surface of said disk and posteriorly thereto, with a related slit. Below said rotating disk is positioned an annulus, fastened to the structure of the apparatus, for supporting the products introduced into the aforesaid recesses, able partially to hide said slit of the recesses during the feeding phase. The annulus is so shaped as to distance itself from the rotating disk, in correspondence with a station for transferring the individual products to be wrapped to the wrapping head, to render visible said slit during the transfer phase and allow means for thrusting said extractor organ to transit through it.