Transfer mechanism

Claim 1

A TRANSFER MECHANISM COMPRISING A PAIR OF FIRST AND SECOND ENDLESS ELEVATOR BELTS HAVING GENERALLY COEXTENSIVE VERTICAL RUN PORTIONS IN SPACED AND OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP AND RUNNING AROUND RESPECTIVE PAIRS OF UPPER AND LOWER PULLEYS, THE LOWER PULLEY FOR SAID SECOND BELT BEING AT A LOWER ELEVATION THAN THE LOWER PULLEY FOR SAID FIRST BELT SO THAT THE VERTICAL PORTION OF THE SECOND BELT EXTENDS BELOW THAT OF THE FIRST BELT, THE OUTER SURFACES OF SAID BELTS HAVING THEREON A PLURALITY OF CLOSELY SPACED RESILIENT PROTUBERANCES FOR RESILIENTLY GRIPPING AN ARTICLE BETWEEN THE OPPOSED VERTICAL RUN PORTIONS THEREOF, A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL INPUT CONVEYOR MEANS ARRANGED TO CARRY ARTICLES ALONG A PATH WHICH LIES IN A VERTICAL PLANE INCLUDING THE VERTICAL RUN PORTIONS OF BOTH SAID ELEVATOR BELTS AND WHICH LEADS THE ARTICLES TO A POINT ADJACENT THE LOWER END OF THE VERTICAL RUN PORTION OF THE FIRST SAID ELEVATOR BELT, A PAIR OF FIXEDLY SPACED APART TRANSFER DISCS MOUNTED ON THE SAME HORIZONTAL AXIS AS THE LOWER PULLEY FOR SAID FIRST ELEVATOR BELT FOR ROTATION ADJACENT OPPOSITE EDGES OF SAID FIRST ELEVATOR BELT AND SAID INPUT CONVEYOR AND STRADDLING THE SPACE BETWEEN THE ELEVATOR BELTS AT THE LOWER END OF THE COEXTENSIVE PART OF THEIR VERTICAL RUN PORTIONS, SAID TRANSFER DISCS HAVING THEIR OPPOSED INNER FACES PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF CLOSELY SPACED RESILIENT PROTUBERANCES AND ARRANGED TO RESILIENTLY GRIP THEREBETWEEN AN ARTICLE ADVANCED THERETO BY SAID INPUT CONVEYOR AND CARRY THE ARTICLE AGAINST THE SURFACE OF SAID SECOND ELEVATOR BELT AND UP INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN THE