| 摘要 |
A cup orienting and feeding device is disclosed which employs a rotary conical feeder having a circular sidewall. The cups are engaged by a plow adjacent the periphery of the rotary feeder and delivered to a delivery chute and thereafter, in linear alignment with the delivery chute, is a tilting area in which the sidewalls flange outwardly and a ridge is provided in the base to tilt the cups in one direction or the other depending upon the orientation of the cup so that the open end is up. Thereafter the cups continue into a discharge chute which has an overlapping trap flange thus oriented in the open end up condition for delivery to automatic assembly equipment. The method recognizes that the center of gravity of a cup is closer to the top than it is to the open end and thus the tilting of the cup by engaging the skirt at a point closer between the open end than the top, but closer to the open end than the center of gravity, permits the cups to fall in the direction of the tops thus orienting them for delivery into the delivery chute.
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