To provide a bundle packaging apparatus wherein whether a bundle is packaged well can be correctly and automatically determined and efficiency in processing of the apparatus can be improved.
The bundle packaging apparatus has an inspection section 30 for inspecting a package F comprising a predetermined number of bundles of paper pieces which are collected and packaged with a film. The inspection section 30 has a plurality of conveyer rollers 31 for carrying the package F, a cross table 33 for raising upward the package F on the rollers 31 and an optical sensor 36 for sensing the hanging of a corner of the package F which has been mounted on the table 33 and raised. A package F' whose hanging has been sensed via the sensor 36 is determined to be eliminated as a package having a loosely tightened film and is returned onto the conveyer rollers 31. Thereafter, it is discharged by a pusher out of the rollers 31.
OWADA HIDEKI
YOKOTA RIICHIRO
UTSUGI TOSHINORI
SAITO KOICHI
