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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1986
Shin ichi Taniguchi, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Ohtsuki, Kawabe, JP;
Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A hopper assembly for use in a product transporting apparatus having a rotary drum having at least one circumferential row of equally spaced, radially inwardly recessed pockets for receiving therein products to be transported while they are sucked therein by the effect of negative pressure developed in the respective pockets as the rotary drum rotates in one direction. The hopper assembly has a container having a bottom plate inclined at a particular angle downwardly towards the periphery of the drum and terminating at a particular position, and a nozzle assembly for supplying jets of compressed air into the container for permitting the products to be upwardly moved thereby to facilitate the supply of the products successively into the respective pockets.