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PCT No. PCT/JP83/00012 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 27, 1983 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 27, 1983 PCT Filed Jan. 13, 1983 PCT Pub. No. WO83/02407 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 21, 1983.An article feeding apparatus capable of reliably feeding articles one by one to the next process. It comprises a plurality of feed troughs (5) adapted to be individually vibrated and disposed side by side with each other with their take-in ends formed as flat surfaces in juxtaposed relation in a plane, a plurality of arranging conveyors (10) disposed adjacent the feed troughs in the direction of feed of articles, each conveyor serving to arrange articles in a line which are being fed from its associated feed trough and feed them, pool hoppers (14) installed at the take-out ends of the arranging conveyors and adapted to open and close, a bucket conveyor (15) for transferring to the next process the articles dropped from the pool hoppers one by one into buckets supported to turn around the axes of pivots, and means disposed at a predetermined position in the path of travel of the bucket conveyor for separating a plurality of articles from each other if such plurality are charged into a bucket. The feeding apparatus is very useful for sorting agricultural products for classification.
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