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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1997
Fumiyuki Iwano, Tokushima-ken, JP;
Satoshi Kume, Tokushima-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Iuchi, Tokushima-ken, JP;
Shigenori Tawa, Tokushima-ken, JP;
Michio Ueda, Tokushima-ken, JP;
Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd., Tokushima-ken, JP;
Abstract
A container carrying apparatus capable of carrying out containers at high speed with reliability wherein the container is filled with juice, etc. and is manufactured by a filling and packaging apparatus, particularly by a high speed filling and packaging apparatus. The containers are carried out by the container carrying apparatus comprising an intermittent driving container carriage conveyor which nips each container at front and rear portions thereof in a carrying direction while each container having a top and a bottom is carried in an upside down state, and which is movable in a direction crossing at right angles with the carrying direction, a cylindrical guide member extending in a direction crossing at right angles with the conveyor, a guide rod provided in the cylindrical guide member, and a pressing member for discharging containers from the conveyor and pressing containers in the cylindrical guide member.