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US 6,206,201 B1Granted
Sorting apparatus for utensils
AssigneeJay Schwartz
InventorJay Schwartz
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Abstract
A utensil sorting apparatus having a plurality of different buckets, each bucket being adapted to receive one type of utensil and to discharge it from a discharge port. Other utensils received by, for example, the cavity adapted to receive spoons are discharged from the inlet port of the bucket as the bucket rotates. The discharge ports of the spoon buckets are aligned with a first slide, fork buckets with a second slide and knife buckets with a third slide so that utensils slide into bins as they are sorted.
Claims7
A utensil sorting apparatus comprising:
- a drum having a plurality of first buckets and a plurality of second buckets mounted generally radially on the drum so as to define a cylindrically-shaped region centrally disposed on the drum each of said first and second buckets having an inlet port communicating with the region;
- the first buckets having a first elongated neck and a first cavity adapted to receive a first utensil and discharge the first utensil from a first discharge port as the drum rotates;
- the second buckets having a second elongated neck and a second cavity adapted to receive a second utensil and discharge the second utensil from a second discharge port as the drum rotates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.