ORIENTING AND FEEDING APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LINE

摘要

Apparatus for orienting and feeding blow molded preforms which are elongated generally cylindrical plastic objects, one end of which is a threaded neck portion for the ultimate blow molded container, and the other end of which extends from the opposed end of the cylindrical object as a narrower and heavier tubular portion which during the blow molding operation will be softened and enlarged into the ultimate container, the preform further including an encircling handling disc between the said threaded neck portion and tubular portion which has a larger diameter than the remaining portions of the preform, the disc serving to facilitate handling of the preforms First and second conveying belts are provided having input and output ends for cooperatively conveying such objects toward a downstream processing line The belts are mounted so that their respective conveying surfaces are movable in a common parallel direction.