A
machine for packing long pasta such as spaghetti, fettuccine, bavette, linguine, and the like, the
machine being of the intermittent filling type and comprising—a storage space for storing elongated
cardboard boxes kept in flat arrangement, —a pre-opening area for the cartons, —a
conveyor belt, provided with cradles for the open cartons, for forming and moving a line of cartons, the carrier conveyor including a deposition area where an open
carton is deposited, —an apparatus for filling the open boxes along the
conveyor belt, —a rotor, on the periphery of which at least three
planet devices are hinged for taking and releasing the cartons, adapted to rotate in coordinated fashion with the rotation of the rotor so as to arrive in the storage space to take a
carton kept in flat arrangement and, subsequently, to arrive, with the taken
carton, in the pre-opening area so as to deform the carton in rhombus-like fashion, partially opening it, and then to release the carton on the deposition area, wherein the
machine is so programmed as to implement two operative steps alternating each other over time, a first step of rotation of the rotor and contemporaneous forward movement of the
conveyor belt, and a second step where the rotation of the rotor and the forward movement of the carrier conveyor stop.