Push-on device

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A device for pushing onto a take-away conveyor or the like a succession of row groups of articles by displacing the articles laterally from a conveyor on which the articles are continuously advanced seriatim, and comprising a push bar of a length to engage an entire row group of the articles driving, arms attached adjacent to opposite ends of the bar means for, actuating the arms oscillatingly and reciprocatingly and means, for guiding the oscillating arms reciprocatingly the arms as, actuated and guided by the actuating and guiding means moving the bar in an orbital cycle to meet and engage an advancing row group and advance with the group while applying a push laterally of the conveyor …