.~.~ Closure delivery from supply laterally into header {2}
311
.~.~.~ Closure at infeed normal to closure in stack
DEFINITION
Classification: 53/311
(under subclass 310) Apparatus wherein a closure element positioned in the header, immediately prior to assembly with a receptacle, is in a plane transverse to the plane said closure is in while within the supply chute or column.
(1) Note. Where a supply chute curves so as to vary the plane within which the closure element lies, such supply chute has been considered properly classifiable with the art in this subclass. Generally, though not exclusively, this subclass provides for those closure applying devices wherein a crown or cap type of closure is fed from a hopper by means of a gravity chute into the side of a header, the crowns or caps being arranged within the hopper in an edge-to-edge abutment rather than a face-to-face relation as usually found in subclass 310.
