Patent ID: 7134540

Claim:
Automatic adaptable machine for unscrambling and delivering light hollow aligned containers such as plastic bottles, which comprises: collecting means for said articles (A, B, C), in lying arrangement, which define a plurality of cavities ( 6 , 60 ) having an opening at its bottom which allows the passage, in fall, of said articles (A, B, C), said cavities ( 6 , 60 ) are traveling through a closed circuit and are delimited by front and back walls ( 6 a , 60 a , 116 a , 6 b , 60 b , 116 b , 62 ) in the direction of the travel and side walls ( 6 c , 60 c , 116 d , 126 d , 136 c , 136 d ), one of said side walls being movable, one or more of said walls integrating or having associated supporting and/or stop configurations ( 11 , 11 a , 11 b , 11 c , 20 , 51 , 54 , 61 , 63 , 67 , 68 , 111 , 121 , 131 ) of parts of the article (A, B, C) co-operating to confer an upright orientation, having a predetermined direction, to said article (A, B, C) when it falls through said opening at the bottom; a plurality of chutes ( 8 , 80 ) to collect in fall and carry the articles (A, B, C), one of said chutes ( 8 , 80 ) being associated to said opening at the bottom of each cavity ( 6 , 60 ) traveling together with it along said closed circuit; supporting means interposed between said bottom opening of each cavity ( 6 , 60 ) and each respective chute ( 8 , 80 ) for temporarily retain the articles (A, B, C) in said cavities ( 6 , 60 ) along a part of the path of said closed circuit, characterized in that at least one of said supporting and/or stop configurations ( 11 b , 11 c , 20 , 51 , 54 , 61 , 63 , 67 , 68 , 121 , 131 ) is joined to shifting elements ( 50 , 56 , 69 ) so that it may be introduced into or withdrawn from said cavity ( 6 , 60 ) recomposing the internal space thereof depending on the dimensions and shapes of a range of articles (A, B, C) to be unscrambled.