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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1976
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1974
Lars H Svensson, Winterthur, CH;
Pierre Luginbuhl, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
SIG Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
In apparatus for aligning a stream of elongate articles, such as chocolate bars, delivered in a randomly ordered arrangement to a turntable, the apparatus including a stationary guide rail disposed above the turntable and extending along a path which spirals outwardly away from the axis of turntable rotation, the speed and reliability of the aligning operation are improved by forming the guide rail to have a series of breaks in the guide path which it defines and by disposing the rail so that articles come to abut only against the surface thereof which faces away from the turntable axis.