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Abstract

The stacking apparatus comprises a vertically movable stacking plunger which receives laterally the packets and feeds them, the one after the other, to an overlying vertical magazine, so as to build a pile of superposed packets which is supported by a lower packet-support arranged in correspondence of the bottom end of the magazine, and comprises also a transferring plunger movable to-and-fro in horizontal direction through the said vertical magazine. The transferring plunger presents a pusher head which extends for a height of 'N' packets above the lower packet-support, while an upper packet-support is provided arranged at the height of 'N-1' packets above the lower packet-support. At each stack-forming stroke, the transferring plunger pushes sidewise out of the vertical magazine a pile of 'N' packets, consisting of 'N-1' packets located in the magazine between the lower and the upper packet-support, plus one packet from the packet reserve resting over the upper packet-support.

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