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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Nedo Gennari, Genoa, IT;
Andrea Faure, Genoa, IT;
Finmeccanica S.p.A., Rome, IT;
Abstract
A sorting machine comprising a plurality of dollies each provided with a rotating mat forming a transportation and discharging plane for objects, whereby the dollies are are kept in a tilted position during the displacement along their transportation path, wherein each dolly is provided with a pair of idle wheels which run along a guide that is shaped to form two superposed guides, the front and rear rolls of the dolly respectively rolling along these paths so as to maintain the dolly in an inclined position. To perform the discharging operation a rack is provided, mounted on a movable support, which is displaced until it engages a toothed wheel mounted on the shaft of one of the support rolls of the rotating mat.