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APPARATUS FOR HANDLING OBJECTS SUCH AS UNSECURED, GENERALLY RECTANGULAR BUNDLES OF STACHED WEB MATERIAL, COMPRISING A FRAME HAVING A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL PLATFORM, A FIRST CONVEYOR OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID FRAME FOR SEQUENTIALLY DELIVERING SAID BUNDLES TO SAID PLATFORM WITH EACH BUNDLE BEING ORIENTED ON SAID FIRST CONVEYOR WITH ITS LONG DIMENSION PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF CONVEYOR TRAVEL, A SECOND CONVEYOR, A PAIR OF VERTICALLY DISPOSED SHAFTS ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME, ONE OF SAID SHAFTS BEING PROVIDED ADJACENT SAID PLATFORM, MEANS ON SAID FRAME FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFTS, CHAIN MEANS AND SPROCKET MEANS OPERABLY COUPLED TO SAID SHAFTS, A PLURALITY OF PADDLE-LIKE PUSHER MEMBERS MOUNTED ON SAID CHAIN MEANS FOR MOVEMENT THEREWITH IN AN ARCUATE FASHION OVER SAID PLATFORM TO ORIENT AND TRANSFER SAID BUNDLES FROM SAID FIRST TO SAID SECOND CONVEYOR, SAID SECOND CONVEYOR BEING OPERABLY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID FRAME AND ARRANGED TO RECEIVE SAID BUNDLES AND TRANSPORT THE SAME ALONG A PATH WHEREIN EACH BUNDLE IS ORIENTED WITH ITS SHORTER DIMENSION PARALLEL TO SAID SECOND CONVEYOR PATH SAID SECOND CONVEYOR INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTALLY SPACE-APART BUNDLE-RECEIVING CARRIERS, SAID PLATFORM BEING EQUIPPED WITH A PLURALITY OF SPACED-APART TAPERED FINGERS DISPOSED IN THE PATH OF CARRIER TRAVEL, SAID FINGERS BEING SLOTTED TO ACCOMMODATE PASSING BY SAID FINGERS, WHEREBY SAID PUSHERS ARE ADAPTED TO SWEEP SAID BUNDLES DOWN SAID TAPERED FINGERS INTO SAID CARRIERS.