摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a counting and feeding device for small articles capable of efficiently and accurately counting and feeding by a comparatively simple structure even when counting and feeding tablets or the like in units of tens. SOLUTION: This counting and feeding device for small articles is characterized by that it is composed so as to intermittently feed a plurality of tablets at a time to an outer circumferential face of a conveyance drum 1 by a feeding means 2, suck and hold the tablets in the outer circumferential face of the conveyance drum 1, convey the tablets by forming a plurality of rows of the tablets aligned along a circumferential direction of the drum in the outer circumferential face of the conveyance drum 1, respectively input one tablet from the rows at predetermined conveyance positions into a temporary storing means, and by repeating this action a predetermined number of times, count the tablets in units of a row number, store a predetermined number of the tablets in the temporary storing means, and feed the tablets to containers or a packaging mechanism part.</p> |