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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic screw aligning and feeding method and device of simple constitution and low cost. SOLUTION: In this automatic screw aligning and feeding method, a number of screws SW are stored in a screw hopper 16, a prescribed number of screws are intermittently picked up by a rotary pickup plate 18 that is rotated in the screw hopper, and the screws picked up by the rotary pickup plate are carried into a chute 20 provided to adjoin the rotary pickup plate. At a screw carrying-in side end part 20b of the chute, the screws are aligned to be introduced in such a way that screw head parts of the screws are respectively suspended and held by an aligning guide member 23 into a guide groove 22 in the chute, so that they are carried in order to a screw takeout side end part 20a. The screws carried into the chute 20 are aligned and introduced in such a way that the screw head parts are respectively suspended and held to the guide groove. Screws SWa non-aligned or excessively carried into the guide groove on the chute are continuously eliminated by action of a rotary brush 44 to be recovered into the screw hopper 16. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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