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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1995
Nicolaas Bessels, Twello, NL;
Thomassen & Drijver-Verblifa N.V., Deventer, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus for orienting lids each having a plate and a peripheral edge standing away therefrom, the apparatus including a first conveyor belt, moving in a first direction, for supplying a disordered mass of lids and a second conveyor belt connecting thereto at an end thereof being positioned in a partially overlying relation to the first conveyor belt forming an acute angle therebetween and the second conveyor belt moving in a second direction opposite in relation to the first direction. The second conveyor belt having a front surface and a back surface wherein an attracting device producing an attractive force is placed close to the back surface such that a sufficient attractive force is exerted on a plate of a lid when the plate is in contact with the front surface of the second conveyor belt to cause the lid to be carried on the second conveyor belt in a proper orientation, and wherein the attractive force is insufficient to carry the lid on the second conveyor belt when the peripheral edge of the lid is in contact with the front surface of the second conveyor belt such that non-properly oriented lids fall onto the first conveyor belt for further re-orientation. The apparatus also including a discharge device for removing the lids from the second conveyor belt and further transporting the lids having the proper orientation.