Means for laterally spacing products
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1. Apparatus for laterally spacing juxtaposed, elongate products, comprising:
- a platform;
said platform having a given planar surface, and a plurality of trackways having divergent portions;
whereinsaid trackways are recessed into said surface;
means for moving said juxtaposed, elongate products, in a given axial direction, along said surface toward said trackways; and
means supported above, and in proximity to, said surface, for urging said products, during movement thereof along said surface into said recessed trackways for lateral spacing thereof in response to movement of said products through said divergent portions, said means for urging being supported by said means for moving said products.
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Abstract
A platform includes linear trackways which diverge and then lie in parallel along a given axis, and spaced apart. A plurality of flight bars, equally spaced apart, and lying traverse of the trackways, are movable along the axis and upon the platform. The bars engage rearmost, axial ends of juxtaposed, elongate products and push the products toward the trackways. Shoes supported above the platform, and lying above the trackways where they diverge, engage the products, as they are pushed along the platform, and force the products into and along the divergent trackways.
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1. Apparatus for laterally spacing juxtaposed, elongate products, comprising:
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a platform; said platform having a given planar surface, and a plurality of trackways having divergent portions;
whereinsaid trackways are recessed into said surface; means for moving said juxtaposed, elongate products, in a given axial direction, along said surface toward said trackways; and means supported above, and in proximity to, said surface, for urging said products, during movement thereof along said surface into said recessed trackways for lateral spacing thereof in response to movement of said products through said divergent portions, said means for urging being supported by said means for moving said products. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. Apparatus for laterally spacing a plurality of axially moving juxtaposed objects, comprising:
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a platform having a planar surface and a plurality of divergent trackways recessed in said surface; means for moving the objects in a given axial direction along said surface toward said trackways; and deflector means for urging said objects into said trackways, said deflector means mounted for vertical deflection relative to said objects and restrained from movement in the axial direction, said deflector means being supported above said surface by said means for moving.
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