PALLET DISCRIMINATING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance discrimination accuracy and to dispense with the alteration of the attaching position of a photoelectric switch even when a pallet of a separate type different in the dimension in its feeding direction or the width dimension of a block is discriminated. SOLUTION: An apparatus for discriminating whether a pallet fed by a feed device 10 is made of wood or resin is equipped with a photoelectric switch 15 for detecting the presence of the gap between the upper deck plates fixed on the block of a wood pallet W during the feed of the wood pallet W, and a wood pallet discrimination means for judging the wood pallet when the ON- OFF signal from the photoelectric switch 15 is obtained a plurality of times.