SMALL PIECE SEPARATING EQUIPMENT AND SMALL PIECE SEPARATING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to simply and continuously separate two or more terminal metal parts or the like, which became entangled.;SOLUTION: A hexagonal pipe type container 17 is a container, which stores many terminal metal parts 1, which are formed by bending them into a shape of U-character. This container 17 has two or more slits 25, which have width slightly larger than the narrowest outside width in the terminal metal parts 1, each every hexagonal faces, and supports them possibly to rotate between support pillars 13 and 15. A motor 33 rotates a container 17. By rotating the container 17 stored with many terminal metal parts 1 by the motor 33, a mass of the terminal metal parts 1 is transferred with the container 17 and falls into the container face, in which the slits 25 are formed, so as to rotate. In this process, the entangled terminal metal parts 1 will become easy to separated. The terminal metal parts 1, of which the outside width position equally to the width of the slits 25, fall down through the slits 25, are separated, and are discharged.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO