Method and apparatus for supplying casings
AssigneeHitec Co., Ltd.
InventorsMinoru Kasai, Minoru Nakamura
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Abstract
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for supplying casings to a stuffing device having a stuffing tube for stuffing a content into a casing. The apparatus includes a supplying member having an arranging surface for arranging thereon a plurality of casings between an upstream portion and a downstream portion and having a restricting portion for preventing the casing to be fitted over the stuffing tube from moving in a downstream direction; and an axis extending at a distance from, and along a longitudinal direction of, the restricting portion. The supplying member is rotatable about the axis between a position in which the casing located at the restricting portion is aligned with the stuffing tube on the one hand, and another position on the other.
Claims23
A method for supplying casings comprising the steps of:
- placing a plurality of casings in parallel on an arranging surface of a supplying member, said arranging surface being formed in such a manner as to extend from an upstream portion of said supplying member to a downstream portion thereof;
- preventing a casing to be fitted over a stuffing tube among said plurality of casings from moving in a downstream direction by means of a restricting portion provided at a downstream position of said arranging surface and integral with said arranging surface;
- rotating said supplying member about an axis disposed at a position upstream of said restricting portion, said axis extending along a longitudinal axis of, and spaced a distance from, said casing to be fitted, the rotation of said supplying member being effected up to a position in which said casing to be fitted is aligned with said stuffing tube;
- inserting said stuffing tube into said casing to be fitted;
- rotating said supplying member about said axis in a direction in which said supplying member moves away from said stuffing tube, so as to deliver said casing to said stuffing tube;
- moving a casing in a downstream direction that is placed on said arranging surface adjacent to said casing to be delivered at the time of rotation of said supplying member in said moving-away direction, until the movement of said adjacent casing is hampered by said restricting portion;
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- causing said supplying member to wait at a position spaced from said casing delivered to said stuffing tube.
An apparatus for supplying casing to a stuffing device having a stuffing tube for stuffing a content into a casing;
- said apparatus comprising:
- a supplying member having an arranging surface for arranging thereon a plurality of casings in parallel between an upstream portion and a downstream portion, said arranging surface having a restricting portion formed integrally therewith and at a downstream position thereof to prevent a casing to be fitted over said stuffing tube from moving in a downstream direction;
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- a supporting member for supporting said supplying member, said supporting member having an axis disposed at a position upstream of said restricting portion, said axis extending along a longitudinal axis of, and spaced a distance from, said restricting portion,
- wherein said supplying member is rotatable about said axis between a position in which said casing to be fitted which is located at said restricting portion is aligned with said stuffing tube and another position, said supplying member being disposed in such a manner as to be rotatable toward said another position relative to said casing to be fitted in which said stuffing tube is inserted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.