摘要 |
IMPROVEMENTS INTRODUCED INTO SMALL, IRREGULARLY-SHAPED OBJECTS THAT ARE TO BE SUBJECTED TO MANUFACTURING MANIPULATION Applicable basically to objects of a single-use nature obtained by injection with a plastic material, such as a small teaspoon (1), for example, intended to be marketed along with a measure of a soluble product, such as sugar or coffee, within a hermetically sealed bag, such improvements consisting in providing this object (1) at any suitable point of it with at least one small appendage (2) topped with a retaining head (3),the whole being in such a way that the teaspoons can be supplied in bulk to a hopper from which, by means of vibratory movement, the teaspoons pass to a guide in which they remain suspended from the said retaining head (3), with all of them in the same position, perfectly aligned and arranged and in the optimum state for fully automatic feeding to the packaging machine.
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