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Claim 1

AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING COMPONENTS UNDER HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS AND SORTING THEM ACCORDING TO COMMON CHARACTERISTIC, COMPRISING A TEST STATION, THERMAL INSULATING WALLS ENCLOSING SAID STATION AND DEFINING AN OPEN ENDED TUBULAR HEATING CHAMBER EXTENDING IN A GENERALLY VERTICAL DIRECTION ABOVE SAID STATION, A GUIDEWAY EXTENDING VERTICALLY INTO SAID CHAMBER FROM THE UPPER END THEREOF, FEEDING MEANS FOR DELIVERING COMPONENTS ONTO SAID GUIDEWAY, EXCAPEMENT MENS MOUNTED WTIHIN SAID CHAMBER FOR TRANSFERRING SAID COMPONENTS ONE BY ONE FROM SAID GUIDEWAY TO SAID TEST STATION AND THEN RELEASE SAID COMPONENTS AFTER IT HAS BEEN TESTED, ESCAPEMENT ACTUATING MEANS MOUNTED EXTERIOR TO SAID CHAMBER AND DRIVINGLY CONNECTED TO SAID ESCAPEMENT MEANS, MANS FOR CIRCULATING HEATED AIR THROUGH SAID CHAMBER BELOW SAID PIVOTALLY MOUNTED EXTERIOR TO SAID CHAMBER BELOW SAID TEST STATION IN POSITION TO RECEIVE EACH COMPONENT AFTER IT HAS BEEN TESTED AND RELEASED, A PLURALITY OF RECEPTACLES MOUNTED BELOW SAID FUNNEL AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A SIGNAL DEVELOPED AT SAID TEST STATION FOR PIVOTING SAID FUNNEL TO A SELECTED ANGULAR POSITION TO DISCHARGE A TESTED COMPONENT INTO A SELECTED ONE OF SAID RECEPTACLES, SAID FUNNEL PIVOTING MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING SPACED ABUTMENTS FIXED TO SAID FUNNEL, A PLURALITY OF CAMS EACH HAVING A DISTINCTIVE PROFILE DISPOSED OPPOSITELY SAID ABUSTMENTS AND SELECTEIVELY ACTUATED DRIVING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID CAMS SELECTIVELY INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ABUTMENTS TO BIAS SAID FUNNEL TO A SELECTED ANGULAR POSTION CORRESPONDING TO THE PROFILE OF THE PARTICULAR CAM.

Claim 2

AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING COMPONENTS UNDER HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS AND SORTING THEM ACCORDING TO COMMON CHARACTERISTIC, COMPRISING A TEST STATION, THERMAL INSULATING WALLS ENCLOSING SAID STATION AND DEFINING AN OPEN ENDED TUBULAR HEATING CHAMBER EXTENDING IN A GENERALLY VERTICAL DIRECTION ABOVE SAID STATION, A GUIDEWAY EXTENDING VERTICALLY INTO SAID CHAMBER FROM THE UPPER END THEREOF, FEEDING MEANS FOR DELIVERING COMPONENTS ONTO SAID GUIDEWAY, EXCAPEMENT MENS MOUNTED WTIHIN SAID CHAMBER FOR TRANSFERRING SAID COMPONENTS ONE BY ONE FROM SAID GUIDEWAY TO SAID TEST STATION AND THEN RELEASE SAID COMPONENTS AFTER IT HAS BEEN TESTED, ESCAPEMENT ACTUATING MEANS MOUNTED EXTERIOR TO SAID CHAMBER AND DRIVINGLY CONNECTED TO SAID ESCAPEMENT MEANS, MANS FOR CIRCULATING HEATED AIR THROUGH SAID CHAMBER BELOW SAID PIVOTALLY MOUNTED EXTERIOR TO SAID CHAMBER BELOW SAID TEST STATION IN POSITION TO RECEIVE EACH COMPONENT AFTER IT HAS BEEN TESTED AND RELEASED, A PLURALITY OF RECEPTACLES MOUNTED BELOW SAID FUNNEL AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A SIGNAL DEVELOPED AT SAID TEST STATION FOR PIVOTING SAID FUNNEL TO A SELECTED ANGULAR POSITION TO DISCHARGE A TESTED COMPONENT INTO A SELECTED ONE OF SAID RECEPTACLES, SAID FUNNEL PIVOTING MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING SPACED ABUTMENTS FIXED TO SAID FUNNEL, A PLURALITY OF CAMS EACH HAVING A DISTINCTIVE PROFILE DISPOSED OPPOSITELY SAID ABUSTMENTS AND SELECTEIVELY ACTUATED DRIVING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID CAMS SELECTIVELY INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ABUTMENTS TO BIAS SAID FUNNEL TO A SELECTED ANGULAR POSTION CORRESPONDING TO THE PROFILE OF THE PARTICULAR CAM.