Patent ID: 8025143

Claim:
Table for distributing bottles at the inlet of single-file channels, which distribution table is arranged downstream of a table having conveyers for introducing said bottles wherein said distribution table comprises a continuous conveyor belt, supported and guided by the chassis of said distribution table, which belt includes: an inlet zone that is equipped, laterally, with guides, and, at the level of said guides, detection means in the form of sensors that are sensitive to the presence of bottles, which sensors are associated with control means for controlling and adjusting the incoming flow of bottles, at the level of said inlet zone, by acting on said conveyors, and, between said inlet zone and the single-file channels, a zone consisting of a plurality of distribution channels that are aligned transversally and of which the number corresponds to around half of the number of single-file channels, which distribution channels are defined by longitudinal walls, parallel to one another, which walls are arranged opposite corresponding walls of said single-file channels and are supported by a mobile structure, secured to said chassis, which imparts, on said distribution channels, a continuous circular sweeping movement, of low amplitude, in front of said single-file channels and in front said walls of the single-file channels, which walls are oriented like the downstream portion of said walls of the distribution channels, and the distance Em between these walls, is substantially on the order of one-quarter of the diameter D of the bottles.