Abstract: In removing articles from a wheel-type blow molding machine continuously revolving in a vertical plane with multiple mold sections opening radially to the wheel axis out of which the articles are ejected sidewise downwardly onto a takeaway pocket conveyor, apparatus improvements including a screw adjacent the conveyor rotating in synchronism with the pockets and extending forward and rearward of the delivery end of the conveyor, a cooperating holding and guiding rail plus a cam for urging moil portions of the articles into the screw channel out of the pockets.The process involves positioning the articles in the pockets such that the moils protrude laterally of the conveyor, capturing such moils within the spiral screw channel while still advancing within the pockets, then pivoting such captured articles downwardly to a vertical attitude beyond the conveyor by means of the screw and forward twisting contour of the guide rail.

Abstract: In removing articles from a wheel-type blow molding machine continuously revolving in a vertical plane with multiple mold sections opening radially to the wheel axis out of which the articles are ejected sidewise downwardly onto a takeaway pocket conveyor.A process involving positioning the articles in the pockets such that the moils protrude laterally of the conveyor, capturing such moils within a spiral screw channel while still advancing within the pockets, then pivoting such captured articles downwardly to a vertical attitute beyond the conveyor by means of the screw and forward twisting contour of a guide rail.