Patent ID: 6705818
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A package take-out apparatus for taking out individual packages, each containing a solid object tightly wrapped with a wrapping sheet, piled and housed in a package container, each of said packages including an unsealed space where the solid object is contained and a sealed portion surrounding the unsealed space, comprisingmeans for housing the package container, said package container having a cut-off portion on a bottom face thereof, wherein a width of the cut-off portion is larger than a width of the solid object contained in each of the packages and is smaller than a width of each of the packages, means for sucking at least one of the packages to take the at least one of the packages out of the package container through the cut-off portion, wherein an outer periphery of the at least one of the packages is deformed and the solid object is not deformed when the at least one of the packages in taken through the cut-off portion, means for moving the means for sucking, and means for controlling operations of the means for sucking and the means for moving by causing the means for moving to move the means for sucking to a position near the cut-off portion of the package container, causing the means for sucking to suck the at least one of the packages, and moving the means for sucking to take the at least one of the packages out of the package container through the cut-off portion.