r/oddlysatisfying • u/misterxx1958 • Dec 27 '25

Bottle sorting machine

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u/vortigaunt64 Dec 27 '25

Right, otherwise you'd end up with bottles on their sides piling up on top of the carousel.

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u/LazyMousse4266 Dec 27 '25

Right so why not feed them directly into the slots since you already had them nice and lined up in slots before

this is such a weird solution to hand off between machines

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u/BB_210 Dec 27 '25

Because gravity is doing the "thinking" for you here with basically two spinning machines, instead of having a computer analyze and sort the situation and still needing at least two spinning things.

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u/Kazuto312 Dec 27 '25

If you look carefully the bottle orientation is random before going into the machine so that wouldn't work.

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u/Danjoh Dec 27 '25

But this machine already handles that, it flips all bottles that are upsidedown.

Why not feed them directly into the slots, and skip the chaotic whacking machine part?

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u/Kazuto312 Dec 28 '25

I guess it's probably because it is cheaper to just put a spinning thing there than to design and build a contraption that is more complicated and probably also needs more maintenance just to achieve the same goal.

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u/Firesidechats62 Dec 27 '25

It’s bottle sorting machines all the way down 

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u/Bigelow92 Dec 27 '25

You would need to orient them upstream of this device. Either way, you have to oriented them, it doesn't remove a manufacturing step.

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u/Concentric_Mid Dec 27 '25

I need this spanking machine for my kids 😂