guided precisely through a preferred endless travel path and orientation program the concept of a releasably mounted and freely transferable transfer mould assembly provides for the addition of such functions as printing and labelling in the same continous production line application_number US 72708691 A description with reference to fig1 of the drawings the numeral 8 refers generally to a moulding machine constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention the moulding machine 8 comprises an input carrier 10 a finishing carrier 13 a first rotary transfer carrier 11 a second rotary transfer carrier 12 a third rotary transfer carrier 14 and a multiplicity of transfer mould assemblies 19 the input carrier 10 rotates through the forming vat 9 and acts as a vacuum former on which preform moulded items are formed in a well known manner referring to fig5 the first rotary transfer carrier 11 transfers the transfer mould assemblies 19 with their contained moulded preforms to the second rotary transfer carrier which in turn transfers the transfer mould assemblies and their contained preforms to support and travel around on the finishing carrier the third rotary transfer carrier transfers the transfer mould assemblies 19 and the contained finished items from the finishing carrier to the first rotary carrier 11 which in turn carries the transfer mould assemblies 19 through the discharge point of cooperation with the vacuum pickup assembly 15 where the finished products 27 are discharged serially on the the belt conveyor 26 the operation of the vacuum pickup is well known in the industry and will not be described here the transfer mould assemblies 19 with the finished.