Nihon Cement Co., Ltd.

Keiji Yamabe

Masao Yoshinaga

A pair of sorting gates are fixed respectively to a pair of moving shafts that are disposed facing with each other so as to be able to move horizontally along the same straight line, and when a sorting gate is moved horizontally from a retracted position to a forwardly moved position interrupting the moving path of a sorting pin accompanying a forward motion of one of the moving shafts to which is fixed the sorting gate, the moving shaft at the forwardly moved position functions as a stopper member for the other moving shaft that is at the retracted position, and obstructs the forward motion of the moving shaft that is at the retracted position.

Article sorting device

In an article sorting device equipped with a pair of endless chains that are arranged facing with each other, and are constructed so as to be driven to rotate in the same direction; a plurality of article conveying boards that are mounted on the endless chains in a condition slidable in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the pair of endless chains are driven, with sorting pins attached to the bottom surface of each of the boards; and a pair of sorting members that enter the moving paths of the sorting pins, and guide the subsequent sorting pins in predetermined directions; the article sorting device characterized in that a downward slanted part is provided at each end part that traverses the moving path of the sorting pin of the sorting members, the upper edges of the slanted parts are formed in a wedge shape, and the lower end parts of the sorting pins that correspond to the slanted parts of the sorting members are formed in a conical form.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keiji Yamabe