Device for orientating workpieces, more especially brush bodies

Abstract

The invention pertains to a device for orientating workpieces, more especially brush bodies, of the type that is formed by a feeding box for workpieces; a transport device which conveys the workpieces one by one opposite to a detecting device and an orienter which place all detected workpieces in the same position, in order to finally feed them into a magazine or processing machine. The detecting and orientating devices are formed by a support which is located opposite to a transport device consisting of a drum and fixed to the side wall of the device, to which support, radially movable in relation to the aforesaid transport drum, is fixed a bridge which, on one side of the transport drum and in the path of the workpieces. A stop is provided on the other side of the transport drum, and coaxially with a first stop. The apparatus is provided with an axially movable spindle or second stop, these stops cooperate with the concerned ends of the workpiece in order to fix same between the two aforesaid stops; a device is provided which, during the aforesaid motion of the bridge, detect the position of the workpiece and allow, if necessary, to turn the second stop and the workpiece 180.degree..

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