Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH0313128
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A hopper assembly for use in a product transporting apparatus having a rotary drum having at least one circumferential row of equally spaced, radially inwardly recessed pockets for receiving therein products to be transported while they are sucked therein by the effect of negative pressure developed in the respective pockets as the rotary drum rotates in one direction. The hopper assembly has a container having a bottom plate inclined at a particular angle downwardly towards the periphery of the drum and terminating at a particular position, and a nozzle assembly for supplying jets of compressed air into the container for permitting the products to be upwardly moved thereby to facilitate the supply of the products successively into the respective pockets.
Inventors:
TANIGUCHI SHINICHI
OOTSUKI TAKASHI
OOTSUKI TAKASHI
Application Number:
JP3645483A
Publication Date:
February 21, 1991
Filing Date:
March 04, 1983
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TAKEDA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD
International Classes:
B65G65/48; A61J3/06; B07C5/02; B07C5/342; B65G29/00; B65G47/14; B65G47/86; G01N21/85
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