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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic collecting and boxing method for tubular soft body goods, and equipment therefor, the tubular goods being such as those without spouts, filled with intravenous drip, enteral alimentation medicine, or the like. SOLUTION: The method and equipment include the following: a conveyor whereon the tubular soft goods G are transported with their bottom parts directed forward; a raising and collecting conveyor 2, provided in continuation with the first conveyor at its front end part, which receives, in sequence on its outside face, a set number of the transported goods G from their bottom parts, thereafter holding both the side faces of the goods and raising them; a pressing/transferring body 8 which is designed to become engaged with the lateral edge parts of the set number of the goods held and raised, and transfer the goods to upon the shutter 7 provided laterally to the goods while the goods are kept upright; an integration apparatus 17 which causes the set number of the tubular soft goods supplied on the shutter to stick to one another; a feeding apparatus of packaging receptacles D, which supplies the packaging receptacles with their lid flaps opened onto the designated positions downward of the shutter; and the process of releasing the shutter so as for the set number of the goods to be dropped in a lot into within the packaging receptacle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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