| 摘要 |
There exists a demand for providing a method and apparatus capable of sorting articles whose upper and lower attitudes are inverted, in a simple and positive manner, from among different-formed articles such as candies having upper and lower portions different in outside diameter. To meet such a demand, different-formed articles having upper and lower portions different in outside diameter are fed between a pair of right and left slant members from a start end side of the same members, the slant members being arranged at a width narrower than a maximum diameter of the different-formed articles and wider than a minimum diameter of the different-formed articles and in such a manner as to be low on the start end side and high on a terminal end side thereof, then only the articles having upper portions larger in diameter than respective lower portions are caught on the pair of slant members, while the articles having upper portions smaller in diameter than respective lower portions are allowed to pass as they are, thereby sorting the both of them.
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