Patent ID: 7708933

Claim:
A drying method of a ceramic molded body comprising: mounting a ceramic molded body at a predetermined position of a drying jig placed on a movable table by using a robot arm of a molded body mounting mechanism of a drying jig assembling apparatus, said drying jig being either a drying jig configured by two or more separate jigs, any of the separate jigs including a fixing member that integrates the separate jigs to surround the ceramic molded body, or a drying jig formed by one openable jig, including a fixing member for maintaining a closed state to suffound the ceramic molded body; handling the fixing member after said drying jig is integrated or put in the closed state using a ceramic molded body holding mechanism of a drying jig assembling apparatus so that the drying jig is maintained in a state holding and surrounding the outer periphery of the ceramic molded body with a close contact manner; receiving the drying jig holding the ceramic molded body from said drying jig assembling apparatus and delivering said drying jig holding the ceramic molded body to a drying apparatus by using a jig delivering mechanism of the drying jig assembling apparatus; drying the ceramic molded body with the ceramic molded body being held on a drying jig using the drying apparatus; receiving the drying jig holding the ceramic molded body using a jig receiving mechanism of a drying jig disassembling apparatus from the drying apparatus; handling the fixing member using a jig releasing mechanism of the drying jig disassembling apparatus in such a manner that the held and surrounded state of the ceramic molded body maintained by the drying jig placed on another movable table is released; and taking out the ceramic molded body held by the drying jig by using a robot arm of a molded body taking-out mechanism of the drying jig disassembling apparatus, wherein said mounting the ceramic molded body at a predetermined position of the drying jig, said handling the fixing member after the drying jig is integrated or put in the closed state, and said receiving the drying jig holding the ceramic molded body from said drying jig assembling apparatus are carried out simultaneously on successive drying jigs and ceramic molded bodies, which include the drying jig and the ceramic molded bodies, after said movable table intermittently repeats rotating and stopping operations for conveying the successive drying jigs and the ceramic molded bodies; and wherein said receiving the drying jig holding the ceramic molded body, said handling said fixing member using a jig releasing mechanism of the drying jig disassembling apparatus, and said taking out the ceramic molded body held by the drying jig are carried out simultaneously on successive drying jigs and ceramic molded bodies, which include the drying jig and the ceramic molded bodies, after said another movable table intermittently repeats rotating and stopping operations for conveying the successive drying jigs and the ceramic molded bodies.