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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1984
Hiroshi Oura, Kurobe, JP;
Nippon Notion Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A parts supplying apparatus for use with a button assembling and setting machine includes a chute having a longitudinal guide track in and along which parts slide down one at a time, and a loading unit having a guide groove communicating with the guide track and a pusher disposed in the guide groove and slidably movable toward and away from a working station in the machine for feeding a part which has fallen from the guide track into the guide groove, in and along the latter to the working station. The chute has an exhaust nozzle disposed adjacent to a discharge end of the guide track and opening in such a direction that compressed air issued from the nozzle impinges against the underside of the part to force the latter to move smoothly from the guide track to the guide groove without stopping at a junction therebetween.