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An apparatus for conveying and aligning various types of film packages recovered for recycling. A conveyer of the apparatus is constructed by a pair of parallel belts combined to form a V-shaped bearing gutter and driven in the same conveying direction. The film packages are conveyed on the conveyer

An apparatus for conveying and aligning various types of film packages recovered for recycling. A conveyer of the apparatus is constructed by a pair of parallel belts combined to form a V-shaped bearing gutter and driven in the same conveying direction. The film packages are conveyed on the conveyer and are slid downward through an inclined cylindrical tube which rotates about the longitudinal axis and has spiral ridges on the inner periphery. Thereby, the longitudinal direction of the film packages are aligned with the conveying direction. Then a posture discriminator discriminates between the upright posture and the upside-down posture of the film packages on a first conveying path, based on the position of the viewfinder. The film packages having the upright posture are caused to fall headlong from the first conveying path onto a second conveying path, so as to have the upside-down posture on the second conveying path. The film packages conveyed on the first and second conveying paths are again joined together in a line.

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An aligning apparatus for objects having substantially rectangular box shapes comprising: a cylindrical tube, said tube being inclined to dispose a first end at a position which is higher than a second end of said tube, said first end of said tube defining an entrance for receiving a plurality of sa

An aligning apparatus for objects having substantially rectangular box shapes comprising: a cylindrical tube, said tube being inclined to dispose a first end at a position which is higher than a second end of said tube, said first end of said tube defining an entrance for receiving a plurality of said objects at random posture, said second end of said tube defining an exit for ejecting said objects; means for rotating said tube about a longitudinal axis of said tube; at least one ridge formed on an internal peripheral surface of said tube and extending from said entrance to said exit, for guiding said objects while said objects slide downward through said rotating tube, to bring a longitudinal direction of each of said objects into alignment with the longitudinal axis of said tube when each of said objects reaches said exit; first, second and third conveyor devices for conveying said objects to or from said tube, each of said conveyer devices comprising first and second bearing surfaces inclined at 45°with respect to horizontal, for bearing said objects thereon, said first and second bearing surfaces extending parallel to each other and being laterally inclined relative to a horizontal so as to meet with each other, at respective lateral sides thereof, at a first angle of 90°, said first and second bearing surfaces being flat belts; driver means for driving said first and second bearing surfaces independently from each other to convey said objects in a first direction; said first conveyer device having two bearing surfaces which are respectively moved at speeds of 16.5 and 15.0 m/minutes by said driving means, said second conveyer device having two bearing surfaces which are respectively moved at speeds of 19.5 and 18.0 m/minutes, by said driving means, and said third conveyer device having two bearing surfaces which are respectively moved at speeds of 26.5 and 33.0 m/minutes by said driving means, said first to third conveyer devices being connected in series in this order from an upstream position to redundantly space apart said objects while said objects are conveyed on said three conveyer devices.