Grommet means for sizing apparatuses

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A SIZING APPARATUS FOR ARTICLES OF IRREGUALAR SHAPE, EACH INCLUDING A MAJOR AND MINOR DIMENSION AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL SIZING ROLL MEMBERS, EACH MEMBER BEING ROTATABLE ABOUT AN AXIS, MEANS TO ORIENT EACH ARTICLE ON THE SIZING ROLLS WITH RESPECT TO ITS MAJOR DIMENSION, AND MEANS TO PROGRESSIVELY SPREAD SAID SIZING ROLL MEMBERS APART AT SELECTED ARTICLE CLASSIFICATION ZONES FOR CLASSIFYING SAID ARTICLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SELECTED VOLUME, THE PROVISION OF: A PLURALITY OF SPACED GROMMETS ON SAID ROOL MEMBERS IN ALIGNMENT, ADJACENT GROMMETS ON ADJACENT ROLL MEMBERS HAVING POINT LOCATIONS FOR SUPPORTING AN ARTICLE, EACH OF SAID GROMMETS HAVING EXTERNAL SURFACES GENERATED BY ROTATING A COMPOSITE CURVE ABOUT SAID AXIS AND HAVING A MINIMUM DIAMETER AT EDGES OF SAID GROMMETS AND A MAXIMUM DIAMETER AT THE CENTRAL PORTION OF SAID GROMMETS, THE COMPOSITE CURVE FORMING SAID EXTERNAL SURFACES BEING DERIVED FROM A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENT CURVES, EACH BASED ON SHAPES OF CONSTANT VOLUME WHILE MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM DIMENSIONS OF SAID SHAPES ARE VARIED TO PROVIDE SPACING OF POINT LOCATIONS ON SAID SURFACES TO FORM POCKET OPENINGS IRREGULARLY VARIABLE IN THE SHAPE OF THE OPENINGS SUBSTANTIALLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VOLUME OF THE SAID SHAPES.