Patent ID: 6276564
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: B07C,B65G

Abstract:
A sorting magazine for the supply of loose small parts, comprising a trough-shaped storage container which has a front wall and a magazine base plate and which has a filling opening for the small parts and in the base plate an aperture which adjoins an inclined bottom wall and by way of which the small parts can be guided into an adjoining rotary magazine comprising a drum-like rotary member which is mounted rotatably about a substantially horizontal axis and which serves for separating and orienting the small parts for further processing thereof by machine, wherein the magazine base plate has a plate section which is formed with the walls defining the storage container to form a unit, and wherein said unit is movable from a closed operative position into an open position permitting the removal of all small parts, and vice-versa, and wherein the aperture adjoins the inclined bottom wall delimiting the storage container at its underside, and with a passage which is associated with the rotary magazine and which passes the small parts in an oriented position for further processing thereof by machine, wherein the lower boundary of the aperture of the plate section extends at a spacing from the lower boundary edge of the plate section of the magazine base plate, which in the closed operative position of the plate section covers over a small part-orientation region disposed upstream of the passage, and in the open position guarantees free removal even of the small parts disposed in said orientation region, wherein cut out of the plate section of the magazine base plate is a plate region which extends to over the central region of the container unit and which is formed as a mounting for the shaft carrying the rotary member of the rotary magazine.