To breadthwise shaft a number of articles in a various breadthwise sifting forms, by providing a pitch-changing device varying X-directional and Y-directional pitches of an article chuck and a slewing device rotating around the own axis of the article chuck.

Sheaths 2 transferred in a row on a conveyor 13 from a sending-in conveyor for the sheaths 11 are arranged to make many rows in the X and Y directions at the taking-out position of containers and temporarily stopped, A corrugated cardboard box 4 transferred by a conveyor 14 for the boxes temporarily stops at the boxing position on the conveyor 14. A container 1 is held by a container chuck 27 of a pitch-changing device 22. The X and Y directional pitches are shifted breadthwise and the containers are rotated by a slewing actuator 26B to provided a required breadthwise shifting. In this way, articles can be charged in corrugated cardboard boxes 4 with various dimensions.