Title:
CARD FEEDING DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3805542
Kind Code:
B
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely feed a plurality of flexible cards piece by piece from a hopper.
SOLUTION: This device to perform a card feeding method is equipped with suction pads 26 set up beneath a hopper 20, and a pair of supporting rollers 96 located in an operating position wherein a lowermost card is temporarily restrained at both sides of the suction pad 26 when the lowermost card in the hopper 20 is sucked by the suction pad 26 for delivery, and imparting a U-shaped elastic deformation to the lowermost card.
Inventors:
Hanazawa, Yuji
Mifune, Koichi
Mifune, Koichi
Application Number:
JP1998000320743
Publication Date:
May 19, 2006
Filing Date:
November 11, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOKYO AUTOM MACH WORKS LTD
International Classes:
B65H3/08; G06K13/107; B42D15/10; B65H3/48; B65H3/64; B65H3/08; G06K13/02; B42D15/10; B65H3/48; B65H3/60; (IPC1-7): B65H3/08; B42D15/10; B65H3/48; B65H3/64; G06K13/107