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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Michael Roth, Ebringen, DE;
Paul Rath-Prazak, Breisach, DE;
Medartis AG, Basel, CH;
Abstract
The device for handling items (20) with a head (21) and a shank (22), such as screws, pins and the like, has a hand piece (1), which has a chamber (2) for receiving the items (20). From an inner side (11) of the chamber (2) there extends a guiding recess (14,17) to a dispensing side (3) of the hand piece (1), which recess has a cross-section adapted to the outer contour of the items (20) and, at the end on the dispensing side, an end portion (18) angled away with respect to a delivery portion (19) adjoining the chamber (2). The items (20) can be transferred from the chamber (2) to the dispensing side (3), for example by tilting with respect to the horizontal, the angling away of the end portion (18) with respect to the delivery portion (19) having the effect of creating a dispensing block, ahead of which the items (20) build up in the dispensing direction. When the hand piece (1) is tilted over, the items can in each case leave individually one after the other the guiding recess (14,17) on the dispensing side (3) via the end portion (18).