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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1977
Toshiki Morimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Sumisaburo Hori, Akishima, JP;
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The encasing apparatus of this invention comprises a feed mechanism, a turnabout mechanism, and a slide mechanism, and may be additionally provided with a partition sheet feeder depending upon the type of articles to be packed. The turnabout mechanism receives articles delivered from the feed mechanism with a tray, allows each prescribed number of such articles to line up successively in a first direction of the tray so that the articles lie in the same direction, and, after turning the tray around a vertical shaft through a fixed angle, inclines the tray to move the articles in a second direction at an angle of 90.degree. to the first direction, thereby delivering the articles to the slide mechanism. Subsequently, the slide mechanism lines up the articles so as to true up the ends of the articles in the second direction, and then introduces them regularly into the packing box. In putting the articles in layers in the packing box, a partition sheet may be interposed between each two adjacent layers by additionally employing a partition sheet feeder.