Bundle feed and orientation system

Claim 1

A FEED AND ORIENTATION SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED MEMBERS, COMPRISING: A FRAME; A PAIR OF INCLINED FEED TABLES IN SAID FRAME, SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS BEING NORMALLY STORED IN LATERAL ABUTMENT WITH SAID TABLE AT A LOCATION BELOW THE UPPERMOST END THEREOF; A FIXED PLATE ON EACH OF SAID TABLES BETWEEN SAID STORED MEMBERS AND SAID UPPERMOST END, HAVING SPACED GROOVES THEREON ADAPTED TO RECEIVE SAID MEMBERS; POWER MEANS IN SAID FRAME; A PAIR OF CAMS ACTUATED BY SAID POWER MEANS; A LIFT LEVER ON EACH OF SAID TABLES, THE LEVER ON ONE OF SAID TABLES BEING ACTUATED BY THE FIRST CAM; A SHIFT LEVER ON EACH OF SAID TABLES, THE LEVER ON ONE OF SAID TABLES BEING ACTUATED BY THE SECOND CAM; SEPARATE ROD MEANS CONNECTING SAID LIFT LEVERS AND CONNECTING SAID SHIFT LEVERS, WHEREBY SAID CAMS ACUATE THE LEVERS ON BOTH TABLES SIMULTANEOUSLY AND IN SIMILAR FASHION; AND A FEED PLATE IN EACH OF SAID TABLES HAVING GROOVES CORRESPONDING TO THOSE OF SAID FIXED PLATE AND ADAPTED TO BE MOVED IN THE DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE INCLINATION OF SAID TABLE BY THE ADJACENT LIFT LEVER AND IN THE DIRECTION PARALLEL TO SAID INCLINATION BY THE ADJACENT SHIFT LEVER, AND ADAPTED THEREBY TO MOVE SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS FROM STORAGE POSITION TO A SUCCESSIVELY HIGHER GROOVE IN SAID FIXED PLATE WITH EACH ACTUATION OF SAID LEVERS AND TO THEREBY FEED THE ELONGATED MEMBER IN THE THE UPPERMOST GROOVE IN SAID FIXED PLATE TO A POINT EXTERNAL OF THE SYSTEM.