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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akira Narukawa, Yokkaichi, JP;
Assignee:
NGK Insulators, Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414415 ; 414331 ; 414281 ; 414273 ; 414404 ; 414416 ; 414421 ;
Abstract
A material supply apparatus for transferring powdery, granular and conglomerated materials, including a base member, a material vessel pooling unit, a plurality of elongate material racks arranged side by side in the material vessel pooling unit, a plurality of material vessels arranged in each of the elongate material racks, a material vessel transferring unit for removing and transferring a selected material vessel from a selected elongate material rack, and control devices for controlling movement of the material vessel pooling unit and for controlling movement of the material vessel transferring unit.