VIAL INSPECTION MACHINE

Apparatus for inspecting objects, such as medicinal vials and the like, having surfaces at their ends by which the objects may be gripped to expose their sides and opposite ends, comprising a series of chucks for gripping such objects at their said surfaces to carry them for inspection, and means to move such chucks to carry the objects long an inspection path in a continuously moving, closely spaced sequence across an inspection station at which a substantial number of objects are simultaneously exposed for inspection, a means for feeding objects to said chucks ahead of said inspection station, a means for illuminating each object with an individual beam of light directed toward the object and moving with the object as it traverses said inspection station, and in which the number of continuously moving objects simultaneously exposed for inspection at said inspection station being sufficient to permit comparative or pattern inspection thereof during their travel across the inspection station is useful for the efficient inspection of such.