Patent ID: 6308949
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A material-feeding device comprising:a base;a material passage formed on said base;at least one guide member provided in said material passage and having a material-guide surface;a direction-correcting roller assembly provided in said material passage, said direction-correcting roller assembly including a pair of integrally rotatable polygonal rollers having a common rotation axis oblique to said material-guide surface of said guide member and a freely rotatable ball opposed to said pair of polygonal rollers and elastically supported in an operative position closer to said polygonal rollers to define a gap between said ball and each of said polygonal rollers for allowing a material to be inserted into said gap when said ball is in said operative position;a driving mechanism for driving said pair of polygonal rollers for rotation; anda conveyor roll mechanism provided downstream, in a material-feeding direction, of said direction-correcting roller assembly, for conveying the material along said material passage.