Patent ID: 7331443

Claim:
A Device adapted for conveying metallic closures in an upward direction from a collecting place to a release place, wherein the metallic closures are scheduled to be in a correct position during conveying in order to release at the release place only the correctly positioned closures in one row of closures following one another closely; the conveyer device having a conveyer belt adapted for the upward transport of the metallic closures and having a sensor and discharge device for detecting wrong-positioned closures and for lateral discharge of individual wrong-positioned closures; wherein along a course of the conveyer belt upstream of the sensor and discharge device, a bar is arranged above the conveyer belt, the bar terminating after the sensor and discharge device, and adapted to separately supply more than one row of metallic closures next to one another towards the sensor and discharge device, and; discharge at the sensor and discharge device wrong-positioned metallic closures from the more than one row, and; guide together the more than one row into the one row of closures following one another closely in the course of the conveyer belt and after the sensor and discharge device.