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A device for the orderly removal of elongated objects (1), such as plastic spoons, from a container (2) holding a disarray of such objects has an endless conveyor belt (3) and an endless spoon-shifting belt (7). On its outer side, the conveyor belt (3) has transverse grooves (6) which extend throughout the entire width of the conveyor belt (3) and the width of which slightly exceeds that of the objects (1). The conveyor belt (3) has an upper run (3a) which passes through the container (2) in order, in its transverse grooves (6), to receive and transport objects (1) from the disarray of objects in the container (2). The shifting belt (7) has a lower run the plane of which is parallel to the plane of the upper run (3a) of the conveyor belt (3), and extends obliquely across the conveyor belt throughout a portion of its width. The shifting belt (7) has shifting pins (10) which are adapted to engage in the transverse grooves (6) in the upper run (3a) of the conveyor belt (3) in order, during synchronous advance of the conveyor belt (3) and the shifting belt (7), to displace objects (1) received in the transverse grooves (6) in the upper run of the conveyor belt, laterally transversely of the direction of travel (P1) of the conveyor belt so as to place the objects straight behind one another at one end of the transverse grooves (6).

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