An automatic unscrambler for uprightly orientating and feeding of containers

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention concerns an automatic unscrambler designed to supply continuously a bottling line or similar equipment. Such unscrambler is characterized by the fact that it include a receptacle with straight or slightly curved walls; a series of single but interconnected travelling carriages drawn by flexible on hinged means along an enclosed path, leaving elements forming pockets to receive individual containers and to hold at least one part of a container's body and having passageways to conduct the containers downwards and an adjustable shelf interposed between the pockets and the passageways as a temporary support for the rest of the bodies of the containers.