Patent ID: 6241073
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: B27N,B65G

Abstract:
Apparatus for aligning and orienting generally elongate objects of irregular shape and variable dimensions comprising:a plurality of spaced, rollers to transport the objects in a direction of transport from an inlet zone through a sorting zone to an outlet zone by rotation of the rollers;a plurality of aligning walls extending over the rollers parallel to the direction of transport from the outlet zone toward the inlet zone; andeccentric vanes mounted to some of the plurality of rollers to rotate with said rollers to be movable through the objects on the rollers;whereby objects introduced into the inlet zone in a generally random, entangled collection are aligned and oriented in the direction of transport into generally, parallel, stacked relationship at the outlet zone by movement through the sorting zone over the rollers between the aligning walls subject to the action of the eccentric vanes.