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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a plurality of parallelepiped products stably transportable together in a lateral row in contact with one another and properly put them into a packaging box 2. SOLUTION: A product suction unit 40 includes a plurality of suction heads 44 for individually sucking upper surfaces of the plurality of products arranged in a lateral row in contact at a product feeding position 100, and flat-plate-like protective members 45 provided around the heads 44 and coming into contact with the upper surfaces of the plurality of products when the heads 44 suck the products. The suction head 44 has an elastic suction member 54 whose cavity is vacuum-sucked. The suction member 54 has a sucking surface 54a of the product protruding downward from the lower surface of the protective member 45. Thus when the upper surface of the product is sucked, it shrinks by a suction pressure in the cavity to raise the sucked product upward. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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