| 摘要 |
Provided are a hopper which can reduce its weight and lessen a burden placed on an operator who carries out a work for attaching, detaching, washing, etc., of the hopper and a combination weigher using the hopper. A hopper of the present invention is a hopper which is used in a combination weigher which finds a combination of objects whose total weight falls within a predetermined weight range and discharges the objects making up the combination, the hopper comprising a tubular hopper body (13B) having an upper opening and a lower opening and being fed with the objects which are used to find the combination, through the upper opening, and a discharge gate which opens and closes the lower opening of the hopper body (13B); wherein the hopper body is constituted by a tubular body having 4 or more side walls (W1 to W8) connected together in an annular shape, the tubular body having a horizontal cross section having a contour of a shape having convex regions and being different from a rectangular shape; and wherein the hopper body has a shape in which at a boundary portion between adjacent side walls of all pairs, an angle which is formed between a first virtual plane contacting one of the adjacent side walls and a second virtual plane contacting the other side wall, and is located at a side of a region to which the objects are fed is equal to or greater than 90 degrees C. |
