APPARATUS FOR FILLING GRANULE IN LONG HOLLOW MEMBER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a granule filling apparatus which can hold a spacer in a bundled state and automatically fill the granules in a hollow space in the spacer without arranging long hollow members on a table in the same direction when a corner key is fitted to an end on one side of the long hollow members such as the spacers for a doubleglazed unit, and the desiccant is filled from an opening part side on the other end side. SOLUTION: This filling apparatus comprises a feed means to feed the granules in a tank into an opening/closing part provided in a lower feed port and a holding means which can insert a tip portion into a ring-like member communicated with the opening/closing part to tighten and hold a plurality of bundled long hollow members by the ring-like member, and the long members are held by inflating a rubber tube to narrow the inside diameter by increasing the pneumatic pressure in the doughnut-like rubber tube which is internally brought into contact with the ring-like member as the holding means.