Weighing apparatus
AssigneeIshida Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiharu Kageyama, Takahide Kasugai, Kazuteru Oda, Michio Nishi
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Abstract
A weighing apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes: adjacent hoppers (12A, 12B); and a sorting mechanism (20) disposed between the adjacent hoppers (12A, 12B), the sorting mechanism (20) sorting an article given from outside into one of the adjacent hoppers (12A, 12B), in which the sorting mechanism (20) includes a rotator (21) rotatable around a rotation shaft (21R), the rotation shaft (21R) and a central axis (21C) of the rotator (21) are not parallel, the rotator (21) rotates when the article abuts on the rotator (21), and the rotator (21) does not rotate when the article does not abut on the rotator (21).
Claims3
A weighing apparatus comprising:
- adjacent hoppers;
- and
- a sorting mechanism disposed between the adjacent hoppers, the sorting mechanism sorting an article given from outside into one of the adjacent hoppers, wherein
- the sorting mechanism includes a rotator rotatable around a rotation shaft,
- the rotation shaft and a central axis of the rotator are not parallel,
- the rotator rotates when the article abuts on the rotator, and
- the rotator does not rotate when the article does not abut on the rotator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.