Patent ID: 6918485

Claim:
A method for selectively orienting an article, said method including a selective indexing of a movable carriage between a first carriage position and at least a second carriage position, thereby providing a selected face-alignment of a datum surface of said article wherein: said first carriage position has been configured to provide for a first, twist displacement of the article; said second carriage position has been configured to provide for a second, twist displacement of the article that is directionally opposite to said first twist displacements; at least one article-set has been identified, the article-set containing a predetermined plurality of articles; a pair of end-articles of the article-set have been identified; a presence of an appointed datum surface with respect to each end-article has been detected; and the method has been configured to appropriately orient each end-article so that both of the end-articles of the article-set have their datum surfaces positioned toward an interior of their corresponding article set, or both of the end-articles have their datum surfaces positioned toward an exterior of their corresponding article set.