Apparatus for supplying a large amount of bag
AssigneeFurukawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsTeruyoshi KARIYADA, Hiromasa YAMASHITA, Masayoshi TSUCHIYA
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Abstract
An apparatus for supplying a large amount of bags includes: a bag stocking mechanism that stocks a large amount of raised bags and guides the stocked bags to the front end thereof; and a bag transport mechanism that transports the bags of the bag stocking mechanism to a packaging machine. The apparatus further includes, a bag pickup mechanism and a bag delivery mechanism that pick up the bag from the bag stocking mechanism; a detection unit that detects the orientation of the picked up bag; and a bag turning mechanism that turns the bag in the predetermined transport direction of the bag transport mechanism according to the orientation of the bag detected by the detection unit.
Claims19
An apparatus for supplying a large amount of bags, each being stocked to be picked up and supplied to a packaging machine,
- the apparatus comprising a bag stocking unit having a mechanism that stocks a large amount of bags and guides the stocked bags to a front end of the unit;
- and a bag transport unit that transports the bags of the bag stocking unit to the packaging machine,
- wherein the apparatus includes, between the bag stocking unit and the bag transport unit, a bag pickup unit that picks up the bag from the bag stocking unit;
- a bag orientation detection unit that detects an orientation of the bag;
- and a bag turning unit that turns the bag in a predetermined transport direction of the bag transport unit according to the bag orientation detected by the bag orientation detection unit.
A refill tool for an apparatus for supplying a large amount of bags, wherein the refill tool refills a bag stocking passage of a bag stocking unit with bags, and wherein the refill tool includes partition plates shaped to be fit into a bag stocking passage, and the partition plates are connected via a connecting plate with a predetermined distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.