transferring device 20 more particularly its first transferring receptacle 22 then deposits the objects 2 at the second location 27 and moves back in such a way that the first transferring receptacle 22 arrives at the first location when the first transferring receptacle 22 has returned to the first location the second transferring receptacle 23 is at the second location 27 and ready to receive the objects 2 the second transferring receptacle 23 moves the objects 2 it has received at the second location 27 to the third location 28 by performing the same movement as that performed during the aforementioned first clock pulse of the device with which the first transferring receptacle 22 moves the group of m 1 objects from the first location 26 to the second location 27 at the third location 28 the temporary storage device 40 is disposed below the target position of the second transferring receptacle 23 so that the objects 2 can be transferred by the transferring device 20 or more particularly the second transferring receptacle 23 to the temporary storage device 40 finally the temporary storage device 40 delivers a second number m 2 of objects to the receiving device 50 during a transferring clock pulse as shown in fig3 in the present example the first number m 1 is equal to a group of sixteen objects 2 and the second number m 2 is equal to a group of five objects to be delivered by the temporary storage device 40 to the receiving device 50 naturally the first number m 1 and the second number m 2 can be selected so as to.