Title: Apparatus for transporting and orienting capsules

Abstract: Capsule turning apparatus and method for use in a spin printing procedure in which a printing roll moves at a greater speed than the capsule, thus causing the capsule to rotate about its own axis while it is being printed. Many capsules, randomly arranged in a hopper, are picked up in a rotary conveyor which arranges them first in vertical arrangement relative to the path of movement of the conveyor, some capsules upright and some inverted, and an air jet shifts all of the capsules in a sidewise direction, with the caps and body portions at random.

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Inventors: Ackley, Edward M. (Stone Harbor, NJ, US)

Application Number: 399817
Filing Date: 1973-09-24
Publication_date: 1976-01-13
Assignee: R. W. Hartnett Company (Philadelphia, PA)
Primary Class(es): 198/380 101/40
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US Patent Ref:

2703047	Mar, 1955	Scherer et al.	101/40.
2785786	Mar, 1957	Bartlett	198/33.
2845165	Jul, 1958	Copping	198/33.
2890557	Jun, 1959	Greer et al.	221/171.
3281012	Oct, 1966	Martell	221/172.
3424082	Jan, 1969	Gra, Jr.	101/40.
3601041	Aug, 1971	Perr, Jr. et al.	101/37.
3613861	Oct, 1971	Whitecar	198/33.

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Primary Examiner: Crowder, Clifford D.
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