High speed article orienting and feeding apparatus
US4615428A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 16, 1984 |
| Grant date | Oct 7, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 16, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G47/24
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus is provided for accepting a population of articles of the type having one axis generally longer than the other and one end different from the other with random orientation of the ends and providing a high-speed output stream of articles with all the ends thereof commonly oriented. The apparatus comprise a rotatable wheel adapted to accept the articles with randomly oriented ends in the periphery thereof and advance said articles to an output station having means for constraining the articles during advance thereof in the wheel and means for biasing said articles to turn end for end within the wheel only as the result of an article being in an undesired endwise orientation.
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