The Pre-moulding machine mod. A/17 is a machine for the automatic pre-moulding of the counters. In fact a constantly feeding table forms it were counters are loaded. Then the counters are picked up one by one and laid down on a belt, hich conveys them to the rolling unit, which has been previously warmed up properly by means of a thermoregulator. Once the rolling process is over the counters are laid down on a receiving belt orderly.