High speed article orienting and feeding apparatus

Details High speed article orienting and feeding apparatus High speed article orienting and feeding apparatus

1984-08-16

1986-10-07

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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046154280

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus is provided for accepting a population of articles of the type having one axis generally longer than the other and one end different from the other with random orientation of the ends and providing a high-speed output stream of articles with all the ends thereof commonly oriented. The apparatus comprise a rotatable wheel adapted to accept the articles with randomly oriented ends in the periphery thereof and advance said articles to an output station having means for constraining the articles during advance thereof in the wheel and means for biasing said articles to turn end for end within the wheel only as the result of an article being in an undesired endwise orientation.

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patent: 4394933 (1983-07-01), Ackley
patent: 4556072 (1985-12-01), Horie et al.

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