To provide an article transfer device which stabilizes falling attitude of an article group in a mass and achieves high speed processing, a packing device including the article transfer device, a combination weighing apparatus including the article transfer device, and a weighing and packing system.

In the article transfer device 100, a cylindrical chute 400 is provided to extend in a downward direction. Shielding plates 630 and 631 of a shielding shutter 600 extend obliquely downward to the inside from the outside of slits 451 and 452 of a straight pipe 450, and are moved to the outside or the inside of the slits 451 and 452 by driving parts 610 and 611 and link mechanisms 620 and 621.