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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank Beswick, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Assignee:
The West Company Incorporated, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198392 ;
Abstract
Orienting apparatus for orienting articles such as stoppers in a predtermined fashion so that they can be assembled to vials comprising a central rotatable dome member, defining an open chamber for the stoppers where they are positioned in random fashion and a plurality of track-ways communicating with the rotatable dome element and a discharge station and deflector means along the track-ways cooperatively associated therewith which, upon rotation of the dome element, cause the element along said track-ways and during course of movement to become oriented in a predetermined position when they are at the said discharge station.