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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2009
Yasuyuki Iwasaki, Fuchu-shi, JP;
Yasuyuki Iwasaki, Fuchu-shi, JP;
Orion Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a product accumulation device with superior general-purpose capabilities, being able to cope with the modified specification of target products only by partially altering the structure thereof. An accumulation means of a product accumulation device includes: a rotary member having a product contact surface relative to products supplied from the product supply means, and a guide member that is provided with the rotary member and that shifts the products from the product contact surface to an approximately perpendicular direction relative to the product contact surface by means of the rotation of the rotation member, thereby being able to cope with the modified specification of target products only by partially altering its structure.