Article handling methods including reorienting randomly misoriented articles
US4343585A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 5, 1980 |
| Grant date | Aug 10, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 5, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH05K13/022
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Initially randomly oriented elongated articles (11) are uniformly oriented and inserted into cavities (47) of a magazine (48) in a mass insertion process. The articles (11) are first aligned in parallel grooves (32) of a rack (31), wherein they initially retain a random longitudinal orientation. The articles (11) are then translated longitudinally in one or the other direction depending on their orientation in the rack. Those of the articles extending in the one longitudinal direction are first transferred to the magazine (48) while the other articles remain in the rack. The longitudinal orientation of the remaining articles is thereafter reversed by rotating the rack about its longitudinal axis, and the remaining articles are inserted into the magazine as the complement of such first transferred articles.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.