Patent ID: 7066316

Claim:
In an apparatus for transporting cylindrical objects ( 2 ), in which only two generally parallel transporting shafts with plane surfaces ( 3 , 4 ), rotatable in the same direction axially perpendicular to the transporting direction of the objects ( 2 ); and in which the objects ( 2 ) while being transported rest with their cylindrical wall on one shaft ( 4 ) and with a face end on a respective adjacent shaft ( 3 ); wherein the radial spacing ( 10 ) and diameters ( 8 , 9 ) of the respective shafts ( 3 , 4 ) cooperate to provide a predeterminable angular position (β), other than zero, of the objects ( 2 ) relative to the plane which contains the axes of the shafts ( 3 , 4 ), and wherein the rotation of the shafts ( 3 , 4 ) effect an intrinsic rotation ( 6 ) of the objects ( 2 ).