Patent ID: 7815033

Claim:
Conveyor for orienting and feeding small parts, having a platform elevator conveying mechanism that is arranged on one side of an inclined collecting surface at a first elevation and that feeds small parts to a conveying trough located at a second elevation higher than the first elevation, characterized in that the conveying trough has a stationary storage platform and a movable pivoting platform that can pivot about an axis located at a delivery end of the conveying trough, between a first position parallel to the storage platform and a second position inclined to the horizontal, wherein the storage platform is adjacent to the platform elevator conveying mechanism and has a storage surface inclined downward toward the pivoting platform, and wherein the pivoting platform has a hollow throat, and when in the first position the hollow throat is adjacent to an edge of the storage surface of the storage platform, and in the second position the hollow throat is pivoted upward and away from the storage surface of the storage platform.