APPARATUS FOR ORIENTING LIDS

摘要

An apparatus for orienting lids each comprising a plate and a peripheral edge standing away therefrom comprises: (1) a first conveyor belt for supplying a disordered mass of lids; (2) a second conveyor belt connecting thereon at the end thereof and inclining upward at an acute angle of between about 20 and 50 attracting means which exert a sufficiently great attractive force on the plate to cause a lid to be carried along by the second conveyor belt but which exert an attractive force on the peripheral edge insufficiently great to cause a lid to be carried along by the second conveyor belt; and (3) discharge means for removing from the second conveyor belt and further transporting the lids all with the same orientation.