| 摘要 |
A chip feeder (12; 300; 320; 340) for feeding chips (60) stored in bulk in a case (62) thereof, one by one, from a chip-supply portion thereof, the chip feeder including a partition plate (170) which parts an inner space (142) of the case into a plurality of rooms (172), the partition plate having an opening (200) which extends in a direction intersecting a horizontal plane and which communicates the respective rooms on both sides of the partition plate, with each other, a movable partition member (202; 302) which extends across the opening of the partition plate and which is movable relative to the opening in the direction intersecting the horizontal plane, and a movable-partition-member control device (202; 304) which controls the movable partition member so that a lower portion of the movable partition member sinks in an upper portion of a mass (208) of the chips stored in bulk in the case and an upper portion of the movable partition member projects upward from the mass of the chips. <IMAGE> |
