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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2001
Hidekimi Yamamoto, Tokushima, JP;
Hiroshi Katayama, Tokushima, JP;
Masafumi Fujimoto, Tokushima, JP;
Kiyomi Yoshida, Tokushima, JP;
Michio Ueda, Tokushima, JP;
Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd., Itano-gun, JP;
Abstract
A container feeder for feeding pillowlike uncompleted containers C each having a container body M and upper and lower ears U , L projecting laterally from upper and lower ends of the container body to a conveyor of a container forming device for forming the uncompleted container C into a rectangular parallelepipedal completed container C comprises a slanting chute having a lower end positioned at a starting end of a conveyor transport path, a first receiving member so disposed as to be movable upward or downward along a chute transport path, the first receiving member being movable into the chute transport path when moving downward to receive the lower end of the container body M of the container C falling along the chute under gravity, and a second receiving member so disposed as to be movable upward or downward along the chute transport path, the second receiving member being movable into the chute transport path when moving downward to receive the upper ears U of the container C received by the first receiving member