Patent ID: 8157084

Claim:
A device for carrying out a method for manipulating products including bottles whose horizontal cross section of contact is of oval type and which are conveyed on a conveyor at a speed Vt, in a longitudinal direction of the bottles, the device comprising: a neck disposed above a conveyor and comprising two arms which are spaced apart and movable relative to each other, wherein: said bottles pass between the arms, each of the arms is carried by a box, respectively, the boxes are guided transversely on a structure, each arm comprises a rotary member comprising a motorized roller, the rollers are coaxial with a vertical spindle parallel to an axis of said bottles and are positioned opposite each other so that each roller is in contact with an opposite lateral face of each of said bottles, one of said rollers accompanies the bottles and is given a peripheral speed Vp equal to the speed Vt of a conveyance of the bottles on the conveyor, and another one of said rollers is given a peripheral speed Va different from the peripheral speed Vp to produce rolling and pivoting of the bottle around the one roller to position the longitudinal direction of the bottle diagonally on the conveyor with an angle with respect to a flow direction of the conveyor.