Eisai Company, Limited

Masao Takada

Toshiyasu Ehara

Tohru Kobayashi

To take upright articles such as ampules out from a case for storage thereof, the case having a pair of laterally opposite side plates formed with a pair of vertical slots, respectively, which are provided with pointed protrusions, defining notches into which a shutter is removably engaged and thereby held in a posture inclined forward with respect to the transporting direction. A control device is adapted to disengage the shutter from the notches and then to engage the shutter into the other notches so as to erect the shutter. A front ejector plate is inserted into the case and the shutter is removed by a chuck from the case. A pusher plate provided on the inner side of a case rear side plate pushes the ampules forward and the rear ejector is inserted into the case. Then a device for moving the front and rear ejector plates is actuated horizontally and thereby the upright articles are transported onto a conveyor. A case feeding station is provided with a feeding conveyor and a case discharging station is adapted to discharge the empty case having completed transport of the upright articles.

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Honjo, Japan

Masao Takada