Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Plural or combined with manipulating means
Patent
1995-01-24
1996-11-05
Merritt, Karen B.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Plural or combined with manipulating means
221168, 221211, 366107, 414755, 406 88, 406137, 198444, B65H 906, H05K 1300
Patent
active
055708129
ABSTRACT:
A component supply apparatus includes a component feeding device for feeding components to a component feeding path, with the components arranged in a row while the components are being agitated by air, and a path forming member having a curved path extending from the component feeding path to a component supply position, for guiding the components fed from the component feeding path to the component supply position by changing a direction of each of the components by a predetermined angle. A plurality of air supply holes are provided at plural portions of the curved path for feeding the components fed to the curved path to the component supply position.
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Ando Takashi
Kubota Shuuichi
Naito Takao
Narikiyo Kazuhiko
Tachiyama Yoshihisa
Hess Douglas
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Merritt Karen B.
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