Patent ID: 6808060
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A machine for inspecting a transparent container comprisingbottle outfeed means including a belt conveyor having opposed drive belts and a fixed rail for receiving a bottle released from a starwheel conveyor, a starwheel conveyor rotatable about an axis and including a plurality of pockets for holding randomly oriented non-round bottles, said starwheel conveyor releasing oriented non-round bottles to said bottle outfeed means, brush guide rail means for orienting a bottle randomly oriented within a star wheel pocket including a brush having a front edge, mounting means for mounting said brush with the front edge of the brush at a location which would interfere with a misoriented bottle, the front edge of the brush being substantially concentric to the axis of the star wheel, and said mounting means including plate means for clamping the brush, said plate means having a front edge being radially spaced from the front edge of the brush at the location where a misoriented non-round bottle will first engage the brush with the radial spacing decreasing to zero as the bottle is displaced along the brush, the front edge of the brush being selectively located so that the bottle will have an acceptable orientation at the location where the radial spacing is zero.