Patent ID: 6866137

Claim:
An article turning-round apparatus provided with first and second stations at which a plurality of disposable wearing articles each having, in addition to front and rear waist regions opposed to each other, a waist-surrounding upper end zone and a crotch bottom zone, are successively loaded and unloaded, respectively, and adapted to successively turn round said articles moving from said first station to said second station, said article turning-round apparatus being characterized by that: said turning-round apparatus comprises a rotary base adapted to be rotated by means of a first shaft and provided along a peripheral zone thereof with said first and second stations and a plurality of load-carrying tables arranged at regular intervals along said peripheral zone, said load-carrying tables being adapted to carry thereon said articles of which said front or rear waist regions are held in contact with said load-carrying tables and said waist-surrounding upper end zones are lined up in a predetermined direction; said load-carrying tables comprise first load-carrying tables adapted to move along said peripheral zone of said rotary base and second load-carrying tables mounted on said rotary base so as to be rotated by respective second shafts extending in an axial direction of said first shaft, said second load-carrying tables being adapted to be rotated around their own axes in said peripheral zone of said rotary base while said second load-carrying tables move along said peripheral zone of said rotary base as said rotary base rotates, said first and second load-carrying tables being alternately arranged so that each of said second load-carrying tables be interposed between each pair of said first load-carrying tables; and said first and second load-carrying tables are successively loaded with said articles as soon as said first and second load-carrying tables alternately reach said first station as said rotary base rotates and said second load-carrying tables rotate in said peripheral zone of said rotary base on their own axes substantially by an angle of 180° relative to said first load-carrying tables while said second load-carrying tables move along said peripheral zone of said rotary base from said first station to said second station.