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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1982
Rodger E Cole, Golden, CO (US);
Richard H Vander Meer, Arvada, CO (US);
Goldco Engineering, Inc., Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for forming bulk conveyed or stored cylindrical articles, such as thin walled cans, into a single file conveyed row the apparatus being formed of two preferably mirror imaged perforated plate members spaced apart a slightly greater distance than the height of the articles being conveyed, but less than the diagonal dimension thereof the perforated plate members having plenum portions adapted to exhaust air through angled openings primarily in the direction of a peripheral guide member, but with the openings adjacent the guide member being angled in a direction substantially parallel to the guide member in order that the cans may be conveyed along the guide member in a single file fashion with articles not single filed being split away from the single file row and displaced towards the portion of the spaced plates having angled openings directed towards the guide member.