TRANSFER ASSEMBLY FOR CYLINDRICAL MEMBERS

摘要

This disclosure relates to a transfer assembly for automatically transferring or distributing a continuous supply of members from a main source into a plurality of carriers. The transfer assembly includes a continuously rotating drum loader having storage chutes spaced about the periphery thereof for continuously receiving members. The carriers into which members are to be distributed are mounted so that they pass around the axis of rotation of the drum loader in unison therewith and in alignment with lower ends of the chutes. Each chute is provided with a gate at its lower end and means are provided for serially operating the gate to dispense a predetermined number of members into each carrier. Each carrier is also provided with escapement mechanisms which repeatedly dissipate the energy of the falling members received therein and which also serve to spaced vertically adjacent members within a carrier.