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Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING AND DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TWO TYPES OF BOTTLES ONE OF WHICH HAS A LARGER OUTSIDE DIAMETER THAN THE OTHER, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: MEANS FOR GENERATING FIRST AND SECOND GENERALLY HORIZONTAL LIGHT BEAMS LOCATED IN PARALLEL VERTICAL PLANES SPACED LATERALLY BY A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE OUTSIDE DIAMETER OF THE LARGER-DIAMETER BOTTLE BUT GREATER THAN THE OUTSIDE DIAMETER OF THE SMALLER-DIAMETER BOTTLE; MEANS FOR GENERATING A THIRD GENERALLY HORIZONTAL LIGHT BEAM LOCATED IN A VERTICAL PLANE PARALLEL TO AND MIDWAY BETWEEN THE PLANES OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND BEAMS, SAID THIRD BEAM BEING LOCATED ABOVE SAID FIRST AND SECOND BEAMS, SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD BEAMS CONSTITUING A RECOGNITION STATION; CONVEYOR MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING SAID BOTTLES TO BE RECOGNIZED ONE BY ONE TRANSVERSELY THROUGH SAID RECOGNITION ONE BY ONE TRANSVERSELY SECOND BEAMS ARE INTERCEPTED BY THE BODY PORTION OF THE BOTTLE AND THE THIRD BEAM IS INTERCEPTED BY THE NECK PORTION OF THE BOTTLE; FIRST SECOND AND THIRD PHOTO-SENSITIVE DEVICES POSITIONED TO RECEIVE RESPECTIVELY SAID FIRST, SECOND THE THIRD LIGHT BEAMS FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL OUTPUT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO THE LIGHT RECEIVED; LOGIC AND GATE MEANS; FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT MEANS COUPLED RESPECTIVELY BETWEEN THE OUTPUT OF EACH OF SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PHOTO-SENSITIVE DEVICES AND SAID AND GATE MEANS FOR APPLYING PRIME-LEVEL SIGNALS TO SAID GATE MEANS IN RESPONSE TO THE INTERCEPTION OF THE ASSOCIATED LIGHT BEAM FOR DEVELOPING AN OUTPUT CONTROL SIGNAL FROM SAID AND GATE MEANS ONLY WHEN A LARGER DIAMETER BOTTLE IS AT THE RECOGNITION STATION.