Apparatus for unscrambling, orienting and feeding elongated objects, such as parisons, having flanges thereon, in a sorting chamber which receives the objects and then passes them on to a further processing station, comprising one or more pairs of longitudinally mounted rollers for unscrambling and orienting the objects in the sorting chamber and then directing them to tracks adjacent the ends of the feeding roller pairs, for receiving the objects and forwarding them to the processing station. The flanges on the objects prevent them from passing between the feeding rollers which are spaced apart sufficiently to receive the body of the object but are close enough to prevent the passage of the flanged objects therebetween. The rollers rotate on longitudinal axes and are inclined to promote gravity feed of the objects along their length. Tracks adjacent the end of the feeding rollers receive the objects fed therefrom and are also inclined to promote gravity feed of the objects along the track to the subsequent processing station. Means are provided to prevent overloading in both the sorting chamber and on the tracks.
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