Ishida Co. Limited

Masahiko Muramiya

Robert Bennett

Ryoichi Sato

Michihiko Yonetsu

Takumi Kawamura

An article handling system and method comprising a flow path along which articles travel and a metal detection system to detect the passage of metal items along the flow path. The system has a metal detector test system to support a metal test piece and positively move it along the flow path, and a metal detector to detect the metal test piece.

Article handling system

A combination weighing and counting apparatus supplies articles for each combination weighing cycle, onto a collecting chute, quickly and in a cluster form, towards a discharge mouth without giving rise to a difference in speed, and discharges the articles through the discharge mouth, all at once, to thereby achieve a high speed weighing and counting operation. This apparatus includes the collecting chute for collecting the articles, supplied from plural hoppers, and discharging them through the discharge mouth therebelow. A chute portion of the apparatus has a shape and an angle of inclination causing the articles to move along a parabolic line and be discharged in a cluster form from the discharge mouth.

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Kouga-gun, Japan

Masahiko Muramiya