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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Masaaki Miura, Hiroshima, JP;
Kouji Sakota, Hiroshima, JP;
Seki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
The sorting and alignment of welding nuts are conducted with stability regardless of a variation in number with lower noise. A charging chute is provided on its end of obliquely downward slope with a nut-sorting part, and a face plate facing obliquely upward is disposed in a tilted position so as to define the nut-storing part. The face plate is formed with stainless steel of non-magnetic material. A permanent magnet is provided on the back of the face plate so as to move on a specific rotational locus, and moved in rotation by a motor. A posture shift guide is disposed on the front face of the face plate and a specific circumference corresponding to the specific locus to shift welding nuts attracted by the permanent magnet into their lying postures. Out of the welding nuts in their lying postures, the ones with their base in opposition to the face plate are flipped by a regulating block to be dropped in the nut-storing part, while only the ones with their top face in opposition to the face plate are allowed to pass into an alignment and feed guide, after which they are sequentially stored in aligned positions in an alignment and feed guide to be fed to a nut feeding equipment.