摘要 |
PURPOSE:To smoothly convey a granular or powdery material, by providing a truck which has a container for the material and a portion for coupling the truck to the loading hopper of a molding machine or the like, and by moving the truck between the loading hopper and a storage hopper for the material. CONSTITUTION:Plural hoppers 2 for loading granular or powdery materials, plural loading hoppers 3 and molding machines 4 are provided along electric power lines 1 buried under a floor I. When the various kinds of granular or powdery materials A-D filled in the hoppers 2 are to be blended together in prescribed quantities and conveyed to a prescribed loading hopper 3, the materials are first transferred from the hoppers 2 into the container 7 of a truck 5. The truck 5 is then moved to the prescribed loading hopper 3 and stopped at it. After the coupling portion 6 of the container 7 is connected to the suction hose 8 of the loading hopper 3, the blended materials in the container 7 are transferred into the hopper 3 by the sucking action of a suction unit 10. |