JPS6440236A - Article feeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently and securely carry out the replacing operation of housing boxes by fixing the body of a delivering means which replaces an emptied housing box in a housing means with a housing box in a temporarily storing means, to a part adjacent to the separating position of the temporarily storing means. CONSTITUTION:An elevator 26 for replacing an empty pallet P in a stocker 24 with a pallet P separated by a buffer 22 is fixed to a part adjacent to the separating claws 66, 68 of the buffer 22, in between the stocker 24 which houses plural pallets P for feeding parts to a robot 12 and the buffer 22 which temporarily stores plural pallets which are carried in a stacked condition from an unmanned vehicle and which separates a desired pallet with the separating claws 66, 68 and through its lifting up/down. And, a replacing operation is carried out through the lifting up/down of an elevator body 86 while a carry-out mechanism 76 is provided on its lower part, to receive an empty pallet P taken out of the stocker 24 by means of the elevator body 86 and translocate it onto an unmanned vehicle, through the lifting up/down of its lift table. Thereby, the replacing operation of housing boxes can be carried out efficiently and securely.