Universal automatic ware loading machine

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A HORIZONTAL CONVEYOR ADAPTED TO RECEIVE ARTICLES OF WARE IN HOT CONDITION FROM A FORMING MACHINE AND MOVE THEM IN A STRAIGHT LINE PATH AT A CONSTANT SPEED, A ROTARY, MULTIPLE-CHUCK BURN-OFF MACHINE CARRYING ITS CHUCKS AT A CONSTANT SPEED, THE LINEAR SPEED OF THE CHUCKS BEING LESS THAN THE SPEED OF THE WARE ON THE CONVEYOR, A ROTARY WARE TRANSFER APPARATUS HAVING A PLURALITY OF WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS ADAPTED TO TRAVEL IN REGISTRY OVER THE STRAIGHT LINE PATH OF THE WARE ON THE CONVEYOR AT A WARE RECEIVING STATION AND IN REGISTRY WITH THE PATH OF THE CHUCKS AT A SUBSEQUENT WARE DELIVERY STATION, DRIVE MEANS FOR MOVING THE WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE CHUCKS, THE WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS EACH TRAVELING AT THE SAME LINEAR SPEED AS THE CHUCKS, SAID DRIVE MEANS COMPRISING A TURRET ON THE WARE TRANSFER APPARATUS MOUNTING THE WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS, A VERTICAL SHAFT ABOUT WHICH SAID TURRET IS MOUNTED FOR ROTATION, A DRIVING CONNECTION FROM THE BURN-OFF MACHINE, A CLUTCH MEANS FOR DRIVABLY CONNECTING SAID DRIVING CONNECTION AND SAID TURRET AND CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED TO PROVIDE POSITION SYNCHRONIZATION OF THE WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS AND THE BURN-OFF MACHINE CHUCKS WHENEVER THE TURRET IS BEING DRIVEN, A WARE RETARDING MEANS OPERABLY IN THE STRAIGHT LINE PATH OF THE WARE ON THE CONVEYOR FOR INTERCEPTING WARE THEREON PRIOR TO THEIR ENTERING THE WARE RECEIVING STATION FOR REDUCING THE LINEAR SPEED OF THE WARE, AND A SYNCHRONIZED DRIVE MEANS OPERATED BY THE LAST-MENTIONED DRIVE MEANS AND CONNECTED FOR OPERATING SAID WARE RETARDING MEANS TO MOVE THE LATTER AT THE SAME LINEAR SPEED AND IN SYNCHRONISM WITH SAID WARE PICK-UP MECHANISMS.