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An orienter accepts trigger pump cap assemblies of the type in which a trigger is spaced from a cap along the pump housing of the cap assembly, the cap assemblies being presented serially in either one of first and second front-to-back orientations, and discharges the cap assemblies in only the seco

An orienter accepts trigger pump cap assemblies of the type in which a trigger is spaced from a cap along the pump housing of the cap assembly, the cap assemblies being presented serially in either one of first and second front-to-back orientations, and discharges the cap assemblies in only the second one of the orientations, the orienter including a pusher member which engages the pump housing of each cap assembly, as the cap assemblies travel downstream through the orienter, and pushes laterally against each pump housing to rotate the pump housing about the cap of those cap assemblies in the first orientation to reverse the front-to-back orientation of those cap assemblies so that all of the cap assemblies emerge oriented in the second orientation.

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An orienter for accepting trigger pump cap assemblies of the type in which a pump housing carries a cap intermediate the front and back ends of the pump housing and a trigger projecting altitudinally from the pump housing at a location spaced longitudinally away from the cap a given longitudinal dis

An orienter for accepting trigger pump cap assemblies of the type in which a pump housing carries a cap intermediate the front and back ends of the pump housing and a trigger projecting altitudinally from the pump housing at a location spaced longitudinally away from the cap a given longitudinal distance along the pump housing toward the front end of the pump housing, the cap assemblies being presented serially along a prescribed path of travel and oriented randomly in either one of first and second front-to-back orientations, and discharging the cap assemblies in only the second of the orientations, the orienter comprising: guide means for guiding the cap assemblies along the path of travel, the guide means including guide channel means for receiving the cap and the trigger therein to guide the cap and the trigger along the path of travel with the cap confined within the guide channel means essentially throughout the path of travel; a pusher member projecting transverse to the guide channel means in a first transverse direction toward the path of travel, at a first location along the path of travel; a slot extending transverse to the guide channel means in a second transverse direction away from the path of travel and communicating with the guide channel means at a second location along the path of travel; and biasing means biasing the pusher member in the first transverse direction into the path of travel at the first location to engage the pump housing of each cap assembly and urge the pump housing in the first transverse direction; the slot and the guide channel means being related such that upon the arrival at the second location of the trigger of a cap assembly presented in the first orientation, the cap of that cap assembly will be confined within the guide channel means while the pusher member will move the pump housing transversely to displace the trigger in the second transverse direction into the slot, and the cap of that cap assembly will continue to be confined within the guide channel means as the cap assembly transverse the second location, thereby enabling the pump housing to pivot about the cap until the cap assembly is reoriented into the second orientation.