Single drum material orientation apparatus and method

Details Single drum material orientation apparatus and method Single drum material orientation apparatus and method

1979-10-29

1982-01-05

Reeves, Robert B.

Conveyors: power-driven

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

With pressurized fluid causing change in attitude

101 40, 198393, 198397, 198408, 221173, B65G 4724

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043089429

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for transferring, in a substantially uniform manner, a plurality of shaped objects, such as tablets, from a hopper adapted to contain a plurality of the tablets to a conveyor system for subsequent processing comprising a transfer drum in rotary arrangement relative to the hopper, adapted to receive the tablets within a plurality of peripherally spaced cavities having a substantially radially aligned pocket and a communicating, substantially longitudinally aligned pocket, a guide for re-orienting the tablets from the substantially radial orientation in which the tablets are received by the cavities, to a substantially longitudinal direction, and carriers operatively associated with the conveyor system to receive the substantially longitudinally oriented tablets in a substantially longitudinal orientation. Also the method.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2785786 (1957-03-01), Bartlet
patent: 3871295 (1975-03-01), Ackley

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