Patent ID: 7905340

Claim:
A device for ordered arrangement of elongate articles, in which a respective head is open and another head is closed, which comprises: means for supplying the articles, arranged in a line according to a longitudinal axis thereof, with a random orientation of the closed heads and the open heads, to a rotor arranged downstream, having a relative rotation axis arranged on a plane which is vertical as well as perpendicular to the line of articles; two shaped housings realised on a same plane which is perpendicular to the axis of the rotor, the housings being perpendicular to one another, superiorly open and destined to be in turn aligned with the line of articles in order to receive a head article of the line; an endrun stop, diametrically opposite the supply means, located externally of the rotor and destined to halt an advancing of the head article in a predetermined position internally of the corresponding housing; sensor organs associated to the endrun stop, destined to detect, for each head article resting on the endrun stop, an arrangement of the closed head and the open head; motor organs for impressing on the rotor rotations of 90° steps in a direction or in another direction, on a basis of information provided by the sensor organs to control organs, such that at an end of the selected rotation the open head of the head article is in a predetermined position; cam means for raising the head article from a bottom of the relative housing thereof, following the selected rotation, by an amount such as to bring the head article, at an end of the selected rotation, into a predetermined collection position and to enable a following article of the line of articles to insert in the other housing, being arranged perpendicular to and underlying the head article; containing and guide means for intercepting and retaining the head article during the raising of the head article by the cam means, consequently to the selected rotation, in order to prevent transversal or longitudinal displacements thereof.