Box packing apparatus
AssigneeIshida Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasashi Kurokawa, Teruyuki Tada
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Abstract
A box-packing apparatus that reduces inefficiency attributable to the box-replacement process includes a first conveyance unit and a second conveyance unit. The first conveyance unit conveys articles. The second conveyance unit conveys the articles transferred from the first conveyance unit and feeds them into a box waiting downstream. When the second conveyance unit feeds a predetermined number of the articles into the box, the second conveyance unit retains the articles transferred from the first conveyance unit without feeding them into the box. Furthermore, in the box packing apparatus, the second conveyance unit may perform a back-feed operation when it retains the articles transferred from the first conveyance unit.
Claims7
A box packing apparatus, comprising:
- a first conveyance unit configured to convey articles;
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- a second conveyance unit configured and arranged to convey the articles transferred from the first conveyance unit and to feed them into a succession of boxes waiting downstream, wherein the apparatus is configured such that when the second conveyance unit feeds a predetermined number of the articles into one of the succession of boxes, the second conveyance unit retains the articles transferred from the first conveyance unit without feeding them into said one of the succession of boxes;
- wherein the first conveyance unit has a first transfer unit that transfers to the second conveyance unit the articles that are fed into a first box within said succession of boxes, and a second transfer unit that transfers to the second conveyance unit the articles that are fed into a second box within said succession of boxes and into which the articles are fed after the first box, and
- wherein the second transfer unit is disposed upstream of the first transfer unit in a conveyance direction of the first conveyance unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.