Patent ID: 7480986

Claim:
An apparatus for feeding components to be further processed from a packaged component band, comprising: a stand defining a platform to allow a packaged component band passing along said platform; a first guiding unit installable to said stand beside said platform, and capable of urging removal of a package from said packaged component band to expose components in said packaged component band at one end of said platform, and guiding said package toward another end of said platform; and a second guiding unit installable to said stand next to said another end of said platform, and capable of accepting said package from said first guiding unit and farther accelerating movement of said package passing therethrough by means of an accelerating way of said second guiding unit applicable on said packaged component band, wherein said second guiding unit comprising a first friction pulley urged to rotate via movement of said packaged component band when said packaged component band passes therethrough, and a second friction pulley rotatably movable together with said first friction pulley and engagable with said package when said package engagably passes therethrough.