To perform a collection and a packaging by using a widely known collecting and packaging device without requiring the need of direct interlocking with a device in a previous process by allowing a conveyed body to be handled in the same manner as a difficult-to-deform conveyed body by temporarily collecting the conveyed body in a rigid bucket even if the conveyed body is a deformable one such as a packaged body formed by packaging the conveyed body in a small package.
This conveyed body collecting and feeding device comprises a conveying device 2 for conveying the conveyed bodies 1, a conveying device 3 for accelerating and decelerating to a specified speed, the conveyed bodies 1 fed from the conveying device 2, a bucket 5 accepting a specified number of conveying bodies 1, a conveying means 20 capable of conveying the bucket 5 by sliding contact, a first regular position stop means 9 for releasably stopping the bucket 5 at an accept position A for the conveyed articles 1, and a second regular position stop means 10 for releasably stopping the bucket 5A at a discharge position B to feed the specified quantity of the conveyed bodies 1 in the bucket 5A to a feed conveyor 8.
