Silverware sorting machine

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A SILVERWARE SORTING MACHINE FOR SORTING SILVERWARE INTO TYPES ACCORDING TO THE WIDTH OF EACH TYPE COMPRISING: A BASE HAVING AN INLET OPENING TO RECEIVE MINGLED SILVERWARE THEREIN AND A DISCHARGE OPENING TO DISCHARGE SORTED SILVERWARE THEREOUT; A HORIZONTAL CYLINDRICAL CONE SUPPORTING FRAME ROTATAABLY SUPPORTED IN SAID BASE HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPENINGS THEREIN ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF SPACED VERTICAL PLANES THE OPENINGS IN EACH PLANE BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CONTIGUOUS TO EACH OTHER, THE OPENING OF EACH PLANE BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CONTIGUOUS TO EACH OTHER; A MULTIPLICITY OF TRUNCATED HOLLOW CONICAL MEMBERS EACH HAVING A LARGE DIAMETER INTERNAL BASE OPENING CONVERGING TO A SMALLER INTERNAL DIAMETER OPENING AT THE OPPOSITE TRUNCATED END, THE BASE OF EACH CONICAL MEMBER BEING RECEIVED BY AND CLOSING A SAID CONE SUPPORTING FRAME OPENING, SAID CONICAL MEMBERS BEING THEREBY SUPPORTED IN A PLURALITY OF SPACED PARALLELED PLANES AND EXTENDING RADIALLY FROM SAID CYLINDRICAL CONE SUPPORT FRAME, THE SMALLER OPENING OF EACH OF SAID CONICAL MEMBERS OF EACH PLANE BEING OF EQUAL SIZE AND THE SMALLER DIAMETER OPENING OF EACH PLANE INCREASING IN INTERNAL DIAMETER AS EACH PLANE IS ADVANCED FROM SAID BASE INLET OPENING; RECEIVING MEANS BENEATH EACH PLANE OF CONICAL MEMBERS TO RECEIVE SILVERWARE FALLING THEREFROM; MEANS OF ROTATING SAID CYLINDRICAL CONE SUPPORT FRAME; AND A PLURALITY OF VERTICAL SPACED APART SLIDE MEMBERS SUPPORTED WITHIN SAID CONE SUPPORTING FRAME, EACH OF SAID SLIDE MEMBERS HAVING AN UPPER AND A LOWER END, THE UPPER END OF ONE OF SAID SLIDE MEMBERS BEING POSITIONED BELOW EACH OF SAID PLANES OF CONICAL MEMBERS AND THE LOWER END THEREOF TERMINATING ABOVE THE NEXT ADJACENT PLANE OF CONICAL MEMBERS NEXT ADVANCED AWAY FROM SAID BASE INLET OPENING, WHEREBY SILVERWARE PASSING INTO SAID INLET OPENING FALLS SEQUENTIALLY INTO SAID CONICAL MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PLANE, THOSE PIECES OF SILVERWARE HAVING A WIDTH LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE TRUNCATED END OF SAID CONICAL MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PLANE FALLING THERETHROUGH AND INTO SAID RECEIVING MEANS BENEATH SUCH PLANE, THOSE PIECES OF SILVERWARE HAIVNG A WIDTH GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID CONICAL MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PLANE BEING CARRIED BY THE ROTATION OF SAID CONE SUPPORTING FRAMES TO THE TOP WHERE THE SILVERWARE FALLS OUT OF THE BAE END OF SAID CONES ONTO SAID SLIDE MEMBER WHEREBY THE SILVERWARE IS DISCHARGED INTO CONICAL MEMBERS OF THE NEXT ADJACENT PLANE, THE SILVERWARE BEING THEREBY ADVANCED FROM ONE PLANE OF CONICAL MEMBERS TO ANOTHER UNTIL A PLANE IS REACHED WHEREIN THE DIAMETER OF THE SMALLER DIAMETER OPENINGS IN SAID CONES IS GREATER THAN THE SILVERWARE WIDTH.