Insert orienting equipment

Claim 1

EQUIPMENT FOR SORTING HOLLOW INSERTS OF THE TYPE HAVING A CHAMFERED PERIPHERY AT ONE END, DEPENDING UPON THE VERTICAL ORIENTATION OF SUCH INSERT, SAID EQUIPMENT COMPRISING A RECIPROCABLE TRANSFER MEMBER HAVING AN APERTURE FREELY TO RECEIVE SUCH INSERT, A CONTACT MEMBER, GUIDE MEANS POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID TRANSFER MEMBER AND SAID CONTACT MEMBER AND DETERMINING THE VERTICAL LOCATION OF SAID INSERT AND AGAINST WHICH THE SIDE PERIPHERY OF THE INSERT AT ONE END THEREOF ABUTS WHEN IT IS POSITIONED IN SAID APERTURE, TO PEMIT ENGAGEMENT OF SUCH INSERT WITH SAID CONTACT MEMBER ONLY WHEN THE INSERT IS ORIENTED WITH SUCH CHAMFERED PERIPHERY AT ITS LOWER END, SAID GUIDE MEANS COMPRISING A GROOVE HAVING OPPOSED SPACED BEVELED SURFACES, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE UPPER EDGES OF THE BEVELED SURFACES BEING GREATER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LOWER EDGES OF THE BEVELED SURFACES, SAID SIDE PERIPHERY OF THE INSERT ABUTTING AGAINST SUCH BEVELED SURFACES, A DISCHARGE MEMBER TO RECEIVE SUCH INSERTS, SAID DISCHARGE MEMBER BEING LATERALLY SAPCED FROM SAID CONTACT MEMBER, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SUCH ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID CONTACT MEMBER TO EFFECT MOVEMENT OF SAID TRANSFER MEMBER IN DIRECTION TO MOVE SAID APERTURE AND THE INSERT THEREIN LATERALLY INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SAID DISCHARGE MEMBER TO TO DISCHARGED THEREINTO FROM SAID APERTURE, WHEREBY THE INSERTS IN SAID DISCHARGE MEMBER WIL BE ORIENTED WITH THEIR CHAMFERED PERIPHERIES AT THE SAME RELATIVE END, A SECOND DISCHARGE MEMBER, AND MEANS ITS CHAMFERED PORTION AT ORIENTED IN SAID APERTURE, WITH ITS CHAMFERED PORTION AT ITS UPPER END, TO EFFECT LATERAL MOVEMENT OF THE TRANSFER MEMBER IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO MOVE SAID APERTURE AND THE INSERT THEREIN INTO ALIGNMENT WITH THE SECOND DISCHARGE MEMBER TO BE DISCHARGED THERETINTO FROM SAID APERTURE.