HIGH SPEED SELECTIVE CONTAINER SORTER

摘要

A container machine (10) and method, the machine (10) comprising: an exit track (18) for containers; a primary starwheel (14) holding processed containers and moving the processed containers along a pitch line path toward the exit track (18); a sorter starwheel (20) positioned adjacent to the primary starwheel (14) and driven in phase synchronization with the primary starwheel (14); a sorter track (22) for providing a path for containers held by the sorter starwheel (22); a diverter mechanism to divert at least a selected one of the processed containers on the primary starwheel (14) to a pocket of the sorter starwheel (20); and a timing device for causing the diverter mechanism to operate while the primary starwheel (14) is rotating at least at fifty percent of production speed and preferably at production speed.