Patent ID: 8261514

Claim:
An apparatus for loading drums, comprising: a drum feeder transferring a drum; a drum container into which drums transferred through the drum feeder are sequentially loaded; a support frame on which a lid of the drum container is placed when the drums are being loaded into the drum container; and a crane having a gripper that selectively grips and transfers a drum or the drum container lid, and a lifter on which the gripper is mounted for upward and downward movement and which is transferred along guide rails in forward and backward, or left and right, directions, wherein the gripper includes a plurality of gripper arms radially arranged at a uniform angular interval, an arm hydraulic unit reciprocating the gripper arms in a radial direction, jaws installed on inner sides of the gripper arms and gripping an outer surface of a drum, and latches protruding from the inner sides of the gripper arms for latching the drum container lid.