Tube transfer device

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1985-04-18

1987-07-21

Reeves, Robert B.

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...

Separating means

198398, 209651, 209927, B07C 536, B65H 6706

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046812300

ABSTRACT:
A tube transfer device for transferring usable tubes from a tube feeding device to a tube receiving device includes an elevator advancing tubes in a given transport direction from the tube feeding device to the tube receiving device is steps with pauses between the steps, the elevator having receiver elements for individual tubes, a feeler element movable back and forth transverse to the given transport direction during the pauses, the feeler element passing over usable tubes and pushing unusable tubes out of the receiver elements, and a receiver device adjacent the elevator for receiving the unusable tubes from the receiver elements.

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patent: 3031059 (1962-04-01), Ingham et al.
patent: 3305087 (1967-12-01), Lucker
patent: 3618306 (1971-11-01), Fenstermacher

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