Apparatus for orienting eggs in a egg handling systems

Details Apparatus for orienting eggs in a egg handling systems Apparatus for orienting eggs in a egg handling systems

1986-02-18

1987-02-24

Valenza, Joseph E.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...

B65G 4724

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046450580

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for orienting eggs in an egg handling system comprises an endless roller chain for conveying the eggs to be oriented along a track defined between parallel longitudinally extending vertical guide plates arranged above the roller chain. At the downstream end of the roller chain an orienting member is suspended for free swinging movement about a horizontal axis extending downwardly to within the path of the advancing eggs. The orienting member has two guide edges facing the roller chain which guide edges at the level where the advancing edges first meet the orienting member, have a lateral spacing and position such that each egg is initially engaged adjacent its acute end by one of the two guide edges whereas the blunt end of the egg is permitted to slide downwards along the other one of the guide eggs whereby the egg is caused to swing around to a position in which its blunt end faces downwards, the guide edges converging downwardly to a relative lateral spacing which is smaller than the thickest part of the eggs to be oriented.

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