To easily adjust the integrated number of article-holders integrated in an accumulating are of an integrating device.

A sending-in lining-up passage 21 for sending sheathes 2 by one rank in the X-direction and setting the sheathes in array is provided at the inlet side of an accumulating area 22, in a sheath-integration device 13. And a sending-out lining-up passage 23 for sending out the seathes 2 by one rank is provided at the outlet side of the accumulating area 22. And a pushing device 25 for pushing one rank of sheathes 2 sent in the sending-in lining-up passage 21 and set in array in the Y-direction is provided near the passage 21. And partitions 28A-28C which can be freely put in or out are provided in a charging position of the integrated array number defined in a specified position of the X-direction of the sending-in lining-up passage 21 and the accumulating area 22.