Kao Corporation

Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Kao Corporation and Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Shigemi Hatanaka

Toshiyuki Ohmori

Hiroaki Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Honma

Eiichi Saito

Nobuyuki Kamishioiri

Ichiro Hamano

Yasuhiro Homma

A transporting apparatus for a container 1 has a sequentially arranged filling process path 13C for performing filling process for the container 1, a empty container infeed starwheel 12 for introducing the container 1 into the filling process path 13C, a discharge starwheel 16 for feeding out the container 1 from the filling process path 13C and a discharge conveyer 17. One of the empty container infeed starwheel 12, and the discharge starwheel 16 and the discharge conveyer 17 is arranged in an intersecting manner with respect to the filling process path 13C with a different level.

Article transportation processing system

A filling method is disclosed, which comprises a step of filling a content into a bottle 1 and a step of fitting a cap 2 on the bolt 1 with the content charged thereinto. The bottle 1 is conveyed in a state held by a bottle container 3 on a conveyor, while the cap 2 is conveyed in a state held by a cap holder 4 on a conveyor.

Article conveyor unit

An article holding arrangement includes an article holder which defines an article holding portion, is formed of an urethane type foamed body and having a higher density at an outer skin portion than that of a core portion. The article holder also includes an article fixing device for holding an article set in an article holding portion of an article holder with an article holding member, which comprises a first magnet, to which the article holding member is fixed, movably supported on the article holder for movement in an article holding direction, a second magnet supported on the article holder in opposition to the first magnet, and the first and second magnets being provided the same magnetic poles at mutually opposing poles. The article holding arrangement further includes a damping device for preventing articles transported through a transportation line in series, which comprises a damping magnets arranged at the mutually mating portions of the articles adjacent along the transportation line, which damping magnets of adjacent articles are provided the same polarities at the mutually opposing magnetic poles.

Article holding arrangement

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Chiba, Japan

Shigemi Hatanaka