Method and apparatus for loading a receiver with a plurality of beads

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR ACCURATELY POSITIONING MINUTE BEADS IN PREDETERMINED POSITIONS FOR LOADING INTO A JIG FOR ALLOYING SAID BEADS TO SEMICONDUCTOR DISC, SAID APPARATUS INCLUDING IN COMBINATION, A FLAT POSITIONING SURFACE HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPENINGS SMALLER THAN SAID BEADS FORMED THEREIN IN PREDETERMINED, SPACED RELATION, SAID POSITIONING SURFACE FORMING ONE WALL OF AN ENCLOSED CHAMBER, THE PRESSURE WITHIN WHICH CAN BE VARIED WHEN THE OPENINGS ARE BLOCKED BY BEADS ALIGNED THEREWITH, A CURVED CRADLE MEMBER HAVING AN EDGE PORTION COEXTENSIVE WITH AN EDGE OF SAID POSITIONING SURFACE ALONG THE LONG DIMENSION OF SAID SURFACE, MEANS FOR TURNING SAID APPARATUS ABOUT AN AXIS FROM A FIRST POSITION IN WHICH SAID POSITIONING SURFACE IS HORIZONTAL AND ABOVE SAID CHAMBER TO A SECOND POSITION IN WHICH SAID POSITIONING SURFACE IS VERTICAL AND TO A THIRD POSITION IN WHICH SAID POSITIONING SURFACE IS HORIZONTAL AND BELOW SAID CHAMBER, AND MEANS FOR VARYING THE PRESSURE WITHIN SAID CHAMBER WHEN THE OPENINGS IN SAID POSITIONING SURFACE ARE BLOCKED BY BEADS ALIGNED THEREWITH SO THAT BEADS IN SUCH ALIGNMENT ARE HELD THERE BY REDUCTION OR PRESSURE WITHIN SAID CHAMBER WHEN THE APPARATUS IS TURNED TO SAID SECOND POSITION AND BEADS SPREAD OVER SAID POSITIONING SURFACE AND NOT ALIGNED WITH AN OPENING THEREIN FALL INTO SAID CRADLE AND THE ALIGNED BEADS MAY BE DISLODGED FROM THE CORRESPONDING OPENINGS BY INCREASING THE PRESSURE IN SAID CHAMBER WHEN THE APPARATUS IS TURNED TO SAID THIRD POSITION FOR DROPPING THE ALIGNED BEADS INTO A JIG.