Abstract: An apparatus for fitting receptacles at a predetermined spacing with respective substantially identical objects each having a bottom face has a plate generally centered on an upright plate axis and having a substantially planar, smooth, and horizontal upper face with a generally circular outer edge. A feeder deposits the objects on the upper face of the plate radially inward of the edge thereof such that these objects sit on this upper plate face by their bottom faces. A plurality of individual seats distributed at the spacing of the receptacles along the outer edge of the upper face of the plate each have a floor coplanar with the upper plate face and a shape complementary with that of one of the objects. A guide member has an inner edge above the upper face of the plate immediately adjacent same, and a plurality of respective passages which each open at one end at this inner edge and at the other end at the respective seat.