Bottle width selector

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SORTING BOTTLES ACCORDING TO WIDTH, SAID APPARATUS INCLUDING AN INSPECTION STATION AND MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING BOTTLES THROUGH SAID INSPECTION STATION, SAID INSPECTION STATION INCLUDING CAM MEANS FOR PLACING IN ALIGNMENT ONE EDGE OF ALL BOTTLES PASSING THROUGH SAID STATION, AN ARM PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID CONVEYOR AT SAID INSPECTION STATION AND BIASED TO EXTEND NORMALLY INTO THE PATH OF THE BOTTLES MOVING THROUGH SAID STATION AND ADAPTED TO BE MOVED PIVOTALLY ASIDE BY EACH BOTTLE MOVING THROUGH SAID STATION; A MIRROR MOUNTED ON SAID PIVOTAL ARM AT THE PIVOT AXIS; A LIGHT SOURCE FOR DIRECTING A BEAM OF LIGHT ON TO SAID MIRROR; A PLURALITY OF LIGHTSENSITIVE DEVICES POSITIONED TO RECEIVE LIGHT REFLECTED FROM SAID MIRROR WHEN SAID ARM IS AT DIFFERENT SELECTED POSITIONS AND ADAPTED TO GENERATE ELECTRICAL SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO THE LIGHT RECEIVED, SAID LIGHT SENSITIVE DEVICES INCLUDING A FIRST PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICE POSITIONED TO RECEIVE LIGHT REFLECTED FROM SAID MIRROR WHEN SAID ARM IS AT THE LIMIT OF ITS BIASED POSITION, AND A SECOND PHOTOSENSITIVE DEVICE POSITIONED TO RECEIVE LIGHT REFLECTED FROM SAID MIRROR WHEN SAID ARM HAS BEEN MOVED ASIDE BY A BOTTLE OF WIDE WIDTH; ELECTRONIC MEANS COUPLED TO SAID LIGHT-RESPONSIVE DEVICES FOR DEVELOPING A RECOGNITION SIGNAL IN RESPONSE TO A BOTTLE OF UNWANTED SIZE AT SID INPSECTION STATION; AND MEANS FOR DEVELOPING A BOTTLE-REMOVAL CONTROL SIGNAL IN RESPONSE TO THE ARRIVAL AT SAID INSPECTION STATION OF THE NEXT BOTTLE FOLLOWING THAT WHICH PRODUCED SAID RECOGNITION SIGNAL.