APPARATUS FOR HANDLING IRREGULAT OBJECTS

摘要

Apparatus for providing a feed of irregularly sized and shaped objects in a spaced arrangement has a sloping slide with longitudinal corrugations for accelerating the objects and guiding them into alignment in the corrugations. The slide discharges the rows of objects onto an accelerating belt which is moving at a speed which is greater than the speed of the objects discharged onto its surface, and a pinch roller of resilient material mounted above the accelerating belt, and moving at the same speed as the accelerating belt, presses the objects against the surface of the accelerating belt. The objects are discharged from the accelerating belt in a spaced and substantially stable arrangement.