Means for orienting articles

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MEANS FOR ARRANGING RANDOMLY SUPPLIED GENERALLY RECTANGULAR AND RELATIVELY SMALL ARTICLES HAVING ORIENTING RECESSES AT ONE OF THEIR CORNERS COMPRISING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID ARTICLES IN SUCCESSION TO A PROJECTION POSITION MEANS FOR FORMING A COMPLETE AND GREATLY ENLARGED LIGHT PROJECTED IMAGE OF SAID ARTICLES AT A PLANE SPACED FROM SAID POSITIONED AT THE EDGES OF THE PROJECTED IMAGE ELEMENTS POSITIONED AT THE EDGES OF THE PROJECTED IMAGE AT SAID PLANE, SAID ELEMENTS BEING ARRANGED FOR BEING SELECTIVELY ENERGIZED BY THE IMAGE FORMING LIGHT ACCORDING TO THE POSITIONS OF THE RECESSES IN THE ARTICLES THEREBY GENERATING ELECTRIC SIGNALS INDICATIVE OF THE ARTICLE POSITIONS, A PLURALITY OF ARTICLE SELECTING MEANS INCLUDING STORAGE MAGAZINES AND MAGAZINES LOADERS, MEANS TO MOVE THE SCANNED ARTICLES IN SUCCESSION FROM THE PROJECTING POSITION TO THE SELECTING MEANS, MEANS FOR STORING THE ELECTRIC OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM THE PHOTO-ELECTRIC ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR SYNCHRONIZING THE OPERATION OF SAID LOADERS WITH THE OPERATION OF SAID ARTICLE MOVING MEANS, AND MEANS FOR ACTIVATING SAID LOADERS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO SAID STORAGE MEANS.