Apparatus for orienting articles having at least one tapered end

Details Apparatus for orienting articles having at least one tapered end Apparatus for orienting articles having at least one tapered end

1975-01-23

1976-03-09

Blunk, Evon C.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...

198268, 198281, 198285, B65G 4724

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039426297

ABSTRACT:
This disclosure relates to an apparatus for orienting elongated objects each of which is tapered at one end and has a larger end opposite thereto, the apparatus including a curved guide surface forming a transition path between a pair of conveyors with a gap between the curved guide surface and a support through which might pass tapered or larger ends of objects, first means for abuttingly contacting the larger ends of the objects to deposit the same with the larger ends thereof leading upon the second conveyor, means for contacting the tapered ends passing through the gap for again depositing the objects with the larger ends leading upon the second conveying means, the second conveyor means having movable belts diverging toward an exit end thereof, and means adjacent the exit end portion against which larger end objects leading on the second conveying means are deposited upon third conveying means with the tapered ends leading while objects with the tapered ends leading on the second conveying means are deposited with the same ends leading on the third conveying means.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3224552 (1965-12-01), McNeill
patent: 3623592 (1971-11-01), Van Melle

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