摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide equipment for buffering articles, an article feed-out apparatus capable of feeding out articles by suppressing interruption of articles to a next stage to make article transportation amounts constant with no need of a structure for incorporating this equipment.SOLUTION: An article feed-out apparatus makes a transportation machine 2 have a transportation path so formed that a change in height in a direction of travel may have at least one minimum point to feed out articles supplied into this transportation path at a predetermined supply speed at a predetermined transportation speed, and a control part 3 control the supply speed so that articles accumulated in a vicinity of the minimum point may reach a predetermined amount to control the transportation speed so that article passing a predetermined point downstream of the minimum point on the transportation path may reach a predetermined amount.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 |