Apparatus for turning elongate objects

An apparatus for turning an elongate object out of a feed orientation, in which the elongate object is conveyed with its narrow side, corresponding to its width, facing forward, into a discharge orientation, in which the elongate object is conveyed with its long side, corresponding to its length, facing forward, wherein a height of the elongate object is at most as great as its width and its width is less than its length, the apparatus comprising:

• a feed device;
• a turning worm screw comprising at least one worm channel open radially outwards,
• wherein the turning worm screw is delimited by a feed side delimiting wall, a discharge side delimiting wall, and a radially inner circumferential wall,
• wherein both the feed side delimiting wall and the discharge side delimiting wall of the at least one worm channel have a screw pitch which reduces from a feed end to a discharge end of the turning worm screw, wherein a feed path of the feed device approaches a feed portion of the turning worm screw at a side, wherein the feed portion adjoins the feed end of the turning worm screw, and
• wherein a circumferential angular position of the discharge side delimiting wall of the at least one worm channel on the side of the feed portion of the turning worm screw facing away from the feed end increases, in the circumferential direction, by at least one hundred eighty degrees (180°) divided by a number of worm channels;
• and
• a discharge device, wherein the discharge device is assigned to the discharge end of the turning worm screw.