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US 2019/0375529 A1Published application
Bag conveyance method and bag conveyance apparatus
AssigneeToyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.
InventorsManabu MORINO, Kazuo FUKUNAGA, Shota KAJIHARA
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Abstract
A bag conveyance method includes the steps of: causing a holding member to hold a bag bundle including a plurality of bags; delivering the bag bundle in a standing posture from the holding member to a delivery unit; rotating the delivery unit in such a manner that a posture of the bag bundle held by the delivery unit is changed from the standing posture to a lying posture; and conveying the bag bundle in the lying posture from the delivery unit to a supply unit.
Claims18
A bag conveyance method comprising the steps of:
- causing a holding member to hold a bag bundle including a plurality of bags;
- delivering the bag bundle in a standing posture from the holding member to a delivery unit;
- rotating the delivery unit in such a manner that a posture of the bag bundle held by the delivery unit is changed from the standing posture to a lying posture;
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- conveying the bag bundle in the lying posture from the delivery unit to a supply unit.
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A bag conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a stocker in which a bag bundle including a plurality of bags is accommodated;
- a holding member which picks up and holds the bag bundle accommodated in the stocker;
- a posture change mechanism which includes a delivery unit to which the bag bundle in a standing posture is delivered from the holding member, and a rotation mechanism which rotates the delivery unit to change a posture of the bag bundle held by the delivery unit from the standing posture to a lying posture;
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- a conveyance unit which includes a push unit and a conveyance drive mechanism driving the push unit, and causes the conveyance drive mechanism to drive the push unit in such a manner that the push unit moves the bag bundle in the lying posture from the delivery unit toward a supply unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.