Bottle aligning machine

In a machine for receiving empty bottles and feeding the bottles out in a row with the mouth up to receive a liquid of the type including:

• a fixed outer cylinder (1) having a cylindrical inner wall;
• a rotary inner cylinder (7) coaxial with the cylindrical inner wall;
• a conical bottle rolling table (6) disposed inside the cylinder for receiving the bottles supplied to the inner cylinder from above;
• bottle guiding means extending from the bottle rolling table (6) along the inner periphery of the inner cylinder (7) to a position thereabove;
• bottle delivering means provided on the inner periphery of the inner cylinder (7) for raising the bottles along the bottle guiding means to a position above the inner cylinder (7) and pushing out the bottles in a horizontal position over the upper edge of the inner cylinder (7);
• a bottle support (24) secured to the outer periphery of the inner cylinder (7);
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• means for dropping the bottles pushed out from the inner cylinder, bottom down under gravity onto the bottle support;
• the improvement comprising:
• said means for dropping the bottles onto the bottle support (24) includes intermediate bottle receiving means arranged above the bottle support (24) between the cylindrical inner wall and the inner cylinder (7) for receiving and guiding the bottles pushed out from the inner cylinder (7) in a horizontal position, and bottle position and adjusting means provided on the outer periphery of the inner cylinder (7) for moving the bottles forward along the intermediate bottle receiving means while holding them in different positions in accordance with their orientation, and dropping them bottom down from the terminal end of the intermediate bottle receiving means onto the bottle support (24).