Kabushiki Kaisha Ishida Koki Seisakusho

Ishida Co. Limited

Yugo Fujitani

Kazukiyo Minamida

Yuji Yokota

Setsuo Haze

Kazumi Kitagawa

Katsuhiko Murakami

Kazuhiro Takaoka

Yuichiro Minakuchi

Toshio Koto

A seal inspecting machine for inspecting bagged products to determine the presence or absence of a seal abnormality in each bagged product being transported by a transport conveyor includes a presser unit and a servo motor for driving the presser unit to sandwich the bagged product G between the presser unit transport conveyor . The servo motor itself has a capability of detecting a reactive force acting on the presser unit or a displacement of the presser unit that occurs as a result of contact with the bagged product, where any failure of the bagged product to exert a sufficient reactive force or displacement resistance is considered evidence of a seal abnormality being present in such bagged product. With this seal inspecting machine, seal check of the bagged products can be efficiently and inexpensively carried out.

Seal inspecting machine

A combinational weighing or counting apparatus of a type in which the weighing hopper (30) once removed and subsequently remounted or the weighing hopper (30) from which the relatively large appendant has been separated naturally by gravity can be automatically reset to resume its participation in the combinational calculation. The apparatus includes an automatic resetting means (56) excludes, when the removal of the weighing hopper (30) is detected, weights detected by respective weight detecting means (1-1 to 1-N) corresponding to the removed weighing hopper (30) to allow the combinational weighing or counting to continue on the basis of weights of the articles M weighed by the remaining weighing hoppers (30). The automatic resetting means (56) also automatically reset, when the remounting of the weighing hopper (30) once removed is detected, the remounted weighing hopper (30) to resume its participation in the combinational weighing or counting based on the weight of the articles M weighed by such remounted weighing hopper (30).

Combinational weighing or counting apparatus

A mixing combinatorial counting and weighing method and apparatus for packaging a wide variety of articles in a single pack, wherein the numbers or ratio of the candies are designated. Prescribed numbers of the articles, which are high in unit price or large in volume, are discharged by using article supply units and combinatorial counting units. The weight of the articles discharged is stored, and this stored weight is subtracted from a weight set for the pack to compute the difference. Then, inexpensive articles are discharged using a combinatorial weighing unit, wherein the weight of the articles discharged is equivalent to the computed difference, and the articles discharged from the respective units are collected. Thus, a wide variety of articles can be introduced into a single pack at a prescribed ratio and, at the same time, the total weight of the pack can be held within established limits.

Mixing combinatorial counting and weighing method, and apparatus therefor

Disclosed in a combinatorial weighing apparatus having a plurality of weighing hoppers, a plurality of weighing machines, associated with respective ones of the weighing hoppers, for weighing or counting articles introduced into each of the weighing hoppers, and a chute for collecting the articles discharged from the weighing hoppers. The apparatus operates by computing combinations based on weight values provided by the weighing machines, and causing weighing hoppers, belonging to a combination selected as a result of the combinatorial computations, to discharge their articles into the chute one hopper at a time with a predetermined time delay intervening between the discharge operations.

Combinatorial weighing apparatus

Combinatorial weighing system

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Shiga, Japan

Yugo Fujitani