Patent ID: 7552814

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating the inspection of containers by a machine for inspecting containers, the machine having an inspection station including an inspection device for carrying out an inspection on a container having a vertical axis, relative to a vertical inspection axis, the machine also having a container conveyor system including structure for engaging the side wall of a container and for displacing it to the inspection station where its axis is coincident with the inspection axis, the apparatus for facilitating the inspection comprising: a container adaptor having a vertical axis and configured for handling by the conveyor system structure so that when said container like adaptor is engaged by the conveyor system structure, the conveyor system structure will deliver said container adaptor to the inspection station with the vertical axis of the container adaptor coincident with the vertical inspection axis, said container adaptor having a horizontal top surface, at least one magnet mounted in or under said top surface having a centering axis coincident with the vertical axis of said container adaptor, a metallic material for placement in the bottom portion of a container so that when a container with said metallic material inside is located on said horizontal top of said container adaptor the at least one magnet will operate on the metallic material to locate the axis of the coincident with the centering axis of the at least one magnet.