Patent ID: 7640645
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An automatic work-piece setting method comprising steps of: separating and aligning plural work-pieces, which have been joined and aligned; supporting said plural work-pieces, which have been separated and aligned at said separating and aligning step, with a skewer-shaped supporting member while maintaining a separated and aligned configuration of said plural work-pieces; and hanging said skewer-shaped supporting member, which has been supporting said work-pieces in the separated and aligned configuration at said supporting step, on a hanger so as to transport said plural work-pieces to a next manufacturing process, wherein said step of separating and aligning plural work-pieces comprising sub-steps of: feeding said plural work-pieces one by one, which have been joined and aligned, by two shutters having a function of moving forward and backward; and aligning said work-pieces, which have been fed one by one at said feeding sub-step, into a predetermined number of pieces with a separating section having two mechanisms which relatively move forward and backward in an orthogonal direction.