Kiln loader and unloader

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR LOADING WARE TO BE FIRED IN A KILN IN WHICH WARE IS CONVEYED THERETHROUGH ON A MOVING CONVEYOR BED COMPRISING A CONVEYOR FOR CONVEYING WAVE FROM A LOADING STATION TO A DELIVERY STATION ADJACENT THE ENTRANCE OF THE KILN, SAID DELIVERY STATION COMPRISING A PORTION OF THE RUN OF SAID CONVEYOR PARALLEL TO SAID KILN CONVEYOR BED, MEANS BETWEEN SAID LOADING STATION AND SAID DELIVERY STATION TO LOCATE SAID WARE ON EQUALLY SPACED CENTERS ON SAID CONVEYOR AT SAID DELIVERY STATION, A TRANSFER ARM, MEANS TO SWING SAID TRANSFER ARM CYCLICALLY FROM A POSITION PARALLEL TO SAID CONVEYOR AT SAID DELIVERY STATION TO A POSITION OVER SAID BED AT AN ANGLE NOT EXCEEDING 90* WITH RESPECT TO ITS MOVEMENT OF SAID BED AND THENCE TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION PARALLEL TO SAID CONVEYOR, A PLURALITY OF ALIGNED WARE PICK-UP MEANS MOVABLY MOUNTED ON SAID TRANSFER ARM, SAID PICK-UP MEANS, WHEN SAID TRANSFER ARMS IS PARALLEL TO SAID CONVEYOR BEING CENTERED ABOVE SAID CONVEYOR AT SAID DELIVERY STATION AND SPACED FROM EACH OTHER A DISTANCE EQUAL TO THE SPACING BETWEEN WARE AT SAID DELIVERY STATION, MEANS TO SELECTIVELY ACTIVATE A NUMBER OF SAID PICK-UP MEANS EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF PIECES OF WARE WHICH MAY BE SPACED EQUAL FROM EACH OTHER OVER SAID BED WHEN SAID ARM IS SWUNG OVER SAID BED, MEANS TO ACTIVATE SAID SELECTED NUMBER OF PICK-UP MEANS WHEN PIECES OF WARE OF A GROUP OF EQUAL NUMBER ARE BROUGHT TOWARD A POSITION BENEATH SAID PICK-UP MEANS AT SAID DELIVERY STATION, WHEREBY SAID GROUP WILL BE PICKED UP BY SAID PICK-UP MEANS TO MOVE SAID PICK-UP MEANS EQUALLY WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AS SAID ARM IS SWUNG OVER SAID BED, MEANS TO DEACTIVATE SAID PICK-UP MEANS AND DEPOSIT THE GROUP OF PIECES OF WARE ON SAID BED WHEN SAID ARM REACHES ITS ULITATE POSITION OF SWING OVER SAID BED, THE SPACING OF SAID PICK-UP MEANS DURING THE SWINGING MOVEMENT OF SAID ARM BEING SUCH AS TO SPACE SAID WARE EQUALLY ALONG A LINE ACROSS SAID BED.