Material or article handling – Plural – static structures for supporting discrete loads and... – Load-underlying members
Patent
1993-10-25
1995-01-10
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Plural, static structures for supporting discrete loads and...
Load-underlying members
221134, 414331, 414411, B65G 106
Patent
active
053801385
ABSTRACT:
An article feeding apparatus which feeds articles from a feed source to a section to be subjected to feeding includes a stocker for stocking a plurality of pallets retaining a plurality of articles in units of types of articles, with the stocker being capable of moving one pallet to a predetermined position, and a take-out unit for taking the pallet moved to the predetermined position outside the stocker in order to transfer articles to the section to be subjected to feeding. In addition, a buffer receives replacement of the pallets retaining the articles from external equipment and temporarily stores the plurality of pallets, and a replacing unit replaces the pallets in the stocker with the pallets in the buffer in accordance with a decrease in number of articles in the pallet in the stocker to a predetermined value as the articles are fed to the feeding section.
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Arai Mitsuo
Azuma Yusaku
Inaba Ryohei
Kasai Shozo
Nikaido Norio
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Huppert Michael S.
Krizek Anice
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