| 摘要 |
A cover-tape feeding apparatus (182) for feeding a cover tape (146) of a carrier tape (148) which includes an accommodating tape (140) having, at a pocket pitch, pockets (144) accommodating electric components (78), respectively, and the cover tape attached to the accommodating tape to close the pockets, and which is fed in a lengthwise direction thereof at a feed pitch equal to a quotient obtained by dividing the pocket pitch by an integral number, the apparatus including a conveying belt (290, 291) which is endlessly wound on two pulleys (295, 296) and a portion of which supports a peeled portion of the cover tape; a reciprocative member (292) which is reciprocated forward and backward in opposite directions substantially parallel to the portion of the conveying belt; and a pinching device (294) including a pair of pinching members (298, 320) one (320) of which is provided on the reciprocative member, the one pinching member cooperating, when the reciprocative member is moved forward, with the other pinching member (298) to pinch the portion of the conveying belt and the peeled portion of the cover tape and feed the peeled portion of the cover tape and the portion of the conveying belt and, when the reciprocative member is moved backward, being moved relative to the fed portion of the cover tape and the fed portion of the conveying belt. <IMAGE> |
