Sorting and orienting apparatus

US4802568A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rolf Haarer · Bad Sobernheim, DE
• Theo Moser · Steinenberg, DE
• Klaus Reum · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 1987
• Grant date: Feb 7, 1989
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/256
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for selecting elongate containers from a mass of randomly-disposed containers such as capsules open at one end and at least partially closed at the other and depositing them with their open ends aligned for receiving a charge of material. The apparatus including first and second rotors, the first rotor including radially-disposed bores for receiving the containers and the second rotor including radially-disposed spokes for receiving containers with open ends toward the spokes. The first and second rotors including operable elements for removing the containers from the bores or spokes for transfer of the containers to a receiving device with the containers in the same orientation.