Apparatus for sorting and conveying of objects
OwnerAlexander Kellerinventor
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Abstract
The apparatus has a downwardly inclined guide ramp which diverges in its width in downward direction and is provided on its upper surface with parallel guide channels. An upper end of the ramp receives a stream of identical objects which are located in random orientation and in overlapping relationship in the stream. The lower end of each guide channel discharges into a pair of sorting channels and a routing arrangement is provided upstream of these sorting channels to assure that objects having a desired orientation enter only one of the sorting channels whereas objects having an undesired orientation enter only the other sorting channel where they encounter a reversing arrangement which reverses their position until they, also, assume the desired orientation.
Claims14
Apparatus for sorting and conveying of similar objects having opposite sides, one of which is flat and which are connected by a side wall having a bevel adjacent the other side, comprising means for supplying a stream of said objects in random orientation and in overlapping relationship;
- guide ramp means having one end for receiving said stream and conically diverging in width towards another end, said guide ramp means being progressively downwardly inclined from the horizontal in direction towards said other end;
- guide rail means on said guide ramp means and forming thereon a plurality of longitudinally extending parallel guide channels each having a height slightly greater than the distance between said sides of said objects;
- sorting channel means in the region of said other end and comprising a plurality of pairs of sorting channels communicating with the respective guide channels, each pair of sorting channels including a first sorting channel for receiving from the associated guide channel such objects as have a desired orientation and a second sorting channel for receiving such objects as have an undesired orientation;
- routing means upstream of said pairs of sorting channels and operative for routing the objects into said first or second sorting channel of the respective pair in dependence upon the orientation of the respective object;
- and reversing means associated with said second sorting channel of each pair for reversing the position of the objects therein so that they assume said desired orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.