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Automatic apparatus for orienting and feeding bottles, and the like

  • US 3,338,373 A
  • Filed: 11/28/1966
  • Issued: 08/29/1967
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1966
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING BOTTLES, OR THE LIKE, HAVING NECK PORTIONS AT ONE END, IN ORIENTED POSITION WITH THE OTHE END FOREMOST, COMPRISING A CIRCULAR HOPPER DISPOSED AT AN ANGLE TO THE HORIZONTAL, SAID HOPPER INCLUDING A CIRCULAR PERIPHERAL WALL, AN UNSCRAMBLING RING ROTATABLY SUPPORTED WITHIN SAID HOPPER PERIPHERALLY THEREOF, SAID RING HAVING RADIALLY-DISPOSED OPEN-ENDED BOTTLE-RECEIVING RECESSES EACH OF A WIDTH EQUAL AT LEAST TO THE WIDTH OF A BOTTLE AND OF A LENGTH EQUAL AT LEAST TO THE LENGTH OF A BOTTLE, SAID RECESSES OF A DEPTH LESS THAN THE THICKNESS OF THE THICKER PORTION OF THE BOTTLE, A BARRIER PLATE SUPPORTED WITHIN SAID HOPPER ADJACENT THE INNER END OF SAID RING FROM A POINT SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE HORIZONTAL AXIS OF THE HOPPER TO A POINT SHORT OF THE VERTICAL AXIS THEREOF, ON ONE SIDE OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS, AND A SECOND BARRIER PLATE SUPPORTED WITHIN SAID HOPPER ADJACENT THE INNER EDGE OF SAID RING FROM A POINT SPACED FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS TO A POINT SUBSTANTIALLY ADJACENT THE LOWER END OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS, THE ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID BARRIER WALLS SPACED APART A DISTANCE EQUAL, AT LEAST TO THE WIDTH OF THE INNER END OF A BOTTLE-RECEIVING RECESS, MEANS OVER SAID UPPER END OF SAID HOPPE OVERLYING SAID RING OPPOSITE SAID SPACE BETWEEN SAID ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID BARRIER PLATES FOR RESILILENTLY, FRICTIONALLY, SLIDABLY ENGAGING A BTTLE DISPOSED WITH ITS NECK PORTION DIRECTED TOWARD THE CENTER OF SAID

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