Apparatus for continuously orienting plastic and other types of bottles

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention relates to an apparatus for continuously orienting bottles comprising a stationary randomly oriented bottle-holding receptacle in communication with and cooperating with a rotatable round feeding element having a plurality of equispaced holes therein, said holes in essentially axial alignment with a rotatable round bank of cooperating vertical tubes into which bottles are fed and from which bottles are delivered to an orienting-plate which orients all the bottles fed thereinto in a neck-up position and means for removing such oriented bottles from the apparatus.