.~ By optionally facing successive items according to a predetermined recurring cycle
DEFINITION
Classification: 198/374
(under subclass 373) Apparatus wherein the articles move sequentially past a station at which the articles are either turned or not turned in a preset pattern, which pattern occurs repeatedly, whereby groups of articles are formed, each group appearing like other similar groups.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
418+, for a conveyor system forming groups of articles wherein the facing of individual articles therein is not significant.