STICK SUPPLYING UNIT, STICK DISCHARGING UNIT, AND SAUSAGE SUSPENDING APPARATUS

摘要

A sausage suspending apparatus includes: a plurality of suspending members for suspending a sausage therefrom; a conveyor having the suspending members; and stick supporting members for supporting a stick. A stick discharging unit has a pair of stick latching arm bodies adapted to move upwardly in a forward direction, and, after the stick latching arm body has taken up the stick from the stick supporting member, the stick latching arm body discharges the stick from the stick latching arm body. The pair of stick latching arm bodies are located in correspondence with both end portions of the stick in a longitudinal direction of the stick, and a moving body and a driving body are provided outside a range between the both end portions of the stick.

主权项

1. A stick discharging unit for use in a sausage suspending apparatus, the stick discharging unit being adapted to discharge a stick from stick supporting members provided in the sausage suspending apparatus including a plurality of suspending members for suspending a sausage, a conveyor having the suspending members and adapted to move the suspending members, and the stick supporting members for supporting the stick for receiving the sausage from the suspending members,
said stick discharging unit comprising a pair of stick latching arm bodies each having a stick latching portion formed thereon and adapted to move upwardly in a forward direction, wherein said stick discharging unit is adapted to discharge the stick from the stick latching portion after each of the pair of stick latching arm bodies, during its upward movement, has taken up the stick by the stick latching portion and moved upward, and wherein the pair of stick latching arm bodies of said stick discharging unit are respectively located in correspondence with both end portions of the stick in a longitudinal direction of the stick, and a moving body for upwardly moving the pair of latching arm bodies and a driving body for driving the moving body are provided outside a range between the both end portions of the stick in the longitudinal direction of the stick being latched by the pair of stick latching arm bodies.