Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsuhiko Oota

Kiyoshi Sawada

Masahiro Nakagawa

Nobuo Ozawa

Yoshinobu Fujimori, Deceased

Takefumi Narahara

By Tomoyoshi Fujimori, Heir

In a device for picking up tubular workpieces sequentially from a stack, and supplying the same to a subsequent stage, at least one truck is provided so as to be reciprocable between a loading position and an unloading position. In the loading position, the tubular workpieces are stacked up on the truck in an orderly manner into a number of layers, each layer including a plurality of rows each including a number of axially aligned tubular workpieces. A workpiece carrying bar reciprocable between an advanced position passing through the inner bores of a row of the tubular workpieces and a retracting position freeing the row, device for shifting the workpiece carrying bar horizontally and vertically, and devices for controlling the operation of the aforementioned devices are further provided.

Devices for automatically supplying tubular workpieces

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Numazu, Japan

Katsuhiko Oota