Bottle handling apparatus

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE OF THE CLASS DESCRIBED HAVING A PERIPHERALLY POCKETED WHEEL MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS, MEANS FOR INTERMITTENTLY ROTATING IT, AND MEANS FOR BRINGING ARTICLES SUCCESSIVELY INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH A POCKET OF SAID WHEEL AS THE LATTER IS ADVANCED BY ROTATION AND THEREAFTER MOVED BY THE WHEEL DURING FURTHER ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT, THE POCKETS OF SAID WHEEL BEING INDEXED BY ROTATION OF THE WHEEL INTO A PLURALITY OF PERIPHERALLY DISPOSED STATIONS FOR BRINGING THE ARTICLES SUCCESSIVELY INTO SAID PLURAL STATIONS, THE IMPROVEMENT THEREIN COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF RESILIENT GUIDE MEMBERS EACH HAVING AN ARTICLE GUIDE SURFACE, MEANS AT EACH OF SAID PLURAL STATIONS FOR END MOUNTING THE RESILIENT MEMBERS SO THAT SAID RESILIENT MEMBERS ARE DISPOSED IN FIXED, SPATIAL, PERIPHERAL RELATIONSHIP AND EXTENDING BETWEEN EACH OF THE ADJACENT STATIONS OF SAID PLURAL STATION, EACH RESILIENT MEMBER BEING FLEXIBLE RADIALLY OF SAID WHEEL FOR POSITIVELY RETAINING THE ARTICLES SECURELY IN THE POCKETS DURING THEIR INDEXING TRANSFER FROM ONE OF SAID STATIONS TO ANOTHER OF SAID STATIONS AND FREEING THE ARTICLES AT EACH OF SAID STATIONS FOR INSPECTION, SAID MOUNTING MEANS COMPRISING SPACED STATIONARY BRACKETS, AND MEANS FOR MOUNTING EACH OF THEM ON THE MACHINE AT EACH OF THE SAID PLURAL STATIONS THEREOF, SAID MEANS PROVIDING FOR ADJUSTING THE BRACKETS RADIALLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID WHEEL THEREBY ADJUSTING THE PERIPHERAL RELATIONSHIP OF SAID RESILIENT MEMBERS WITH RESPECT TO SAID WHEEL, AND A SOFT, FLEXIBLE COVERING FOR THE ARTICLE GUIDE SURFACE OF EACH OF THE RESILIENT GUIDE MEMBERS FOR CONTACTING THE ARTICLES THEREBY DURING INDEXING MOVEMENT BY THE WHEEL FROM STATION TO STATION.