Article orienting apparatus

Details Article orienting apparatus Article orienting apparatus

1982-01-15

1984-03-13

Valenza, Joseph E.

Conveyors: power-driven

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

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

198360, B65G 4724

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044361971

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for orienting a plurality of articles with a head and a shank. An elevator dumps the articles onto a track having a pair of laterally spaced apart rails which slope downwardly so that articles can slide toward the lower end of the track. Some of the articles fall off the track, others assume a desired orientation with their heads bearing on the rails and their shanks depending therebetween, and the remainder begin to slide down the track in other orientations. A gate associated with the track permits only those articles in the desired orientation to continue sliding down the track and prevents all the articles in other orientations from going past the gate. To remove the misoriented articles, a discharge section of the track immediately upstream from the gate is moved intermittently so that the articles fall off this section of the track.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1001791 (1911-08-01), Wilcox
patent: 3044660 (1962-07-01), Troll et al.
patent: 3346095 (1967-10-01), Dixon
patent: 3572492 (1971-03-01), Dreszig
patent: 4174028 (1979-11-01), Barnes

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