US PATENT SUBCLASS 198 / 416
.~ By member adjacent conveyor for contacting successive conveyed items

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198 /   HD   CONVEYORS: POWER-DRIVEN

373  DF  CONVEYOR FOR CHANGING ATTITUDE OF ITEM RELATIVE TO CONVEYED DIRECTION {12}
416.~ By member adjacent conveyor for contacting successive conveyed items {1}
417  DF  .~.~> Longitudinally twisted item-bounding passageway

DEFINITION

Classification: 198/416

(under subclass 373) Apparatus wherein each article that is conveyed in a sequence of articles is moved by a conveyor and is turned by an appurtenance that is located next to the conveyor and in the path of movement of the articles, whereby during the movement of each article, it engages the appurtenance and the reaction between the moving article and

the appurtenance causes the article to turn.

(1) Note. In most mechanisms of this subclass the member (i.e., appurtenance) is a stationary and fixed object, but it also may be member that, in use, is fixed in the path of the articles, but may be moved at will out of such path, or may be a member that is in the path of the article, but as the member is engaged by the moving article, the member moves to permit the now-turned article to pass.