Product aligner device esp. for wrapping of sweets and chocolate - has rotating disc with top surface profiled so as to generate forces counteracting centrifugal force acting on advancing products supported by disc

摘要

The product aligner includes a drum (25), and inside the drum, a disc (3) rotatable about a vertical axis (5) and with a top surface (4) on which products are taken up from an infeed belt and through the agency of centrifugal force aligned and oriented and directed onto a conveyor belt extending toward a manufacturing machine. At least one portion (4a) of the top surface presented by the disc exhibits an upwardly directed concave profile establishing a path (8) along which the effects of centrifugal force on the products in movement over the top surface are counteracted and controlled. Preferably, the products are diverted and guided by means of a wall operating in conjunction with the disc which extends along a spiral course departing from a discharge point and terminating at the outfeed station.