Patent ID: 7837022

Claim:
A method for upwardly conveying closures made from sheet metal, the conveying upwards from a collecting point to a higher release point, wherein at the release point same-lying closures are released, and wherein the method comprises: (a) conveying more than one row of arbitrary lying closures upwardly to a sensor-and-discharge-device on a single conveyer belt; (b) discharging wrong-lying closures in the more than one row of arbitrary lying closures towards opposite sides at the sensor-and-discharge-device such that closures that remain on the single conveyor belt are same-lying closures in the more than one row; and (c) guiding together, after the sensor-and-discharge-device, the more than one row of same-lying closures by a resiliently tensioned guide member that provides for a single line of same-lying closures conveyed towards the release point on the single conveyor belt to be released as the same-lying closures at the higher release point.