Provided is a pharmaceutical formulation transporting device capable of easily ensuring a large exposed area of a solid pharmaceutical formulation during transport. A pharmaceutical formulation transporting device 10 comprises a first pulley 11, a second pulley 12, and a plurality of endless transport belts 13, 14 wound around the first pulley 11 and the second pulley 12, wherein the plurality of transport belts 13, 14 are disposed so as to be capable of holding a solid pharmaceutical formulation between respective first side surfaces.

A container-guiding apparatus for guiding containers along an arcuate path includes a concave guide-region and a guide belt that forms a resting region for containers to laterally guide containers along the path. The guide belt, which is driven to endlessly circulate, applies feed forces to the containers to force them along the transport direction.

A method for container packaging includes producing a container package that has at least two rows of containers, each row having more than one container. The method forming sub-groups by dispersing a container flow, applying adhesive to the containers, and re-compacting the container flow to adhesively connect the containers together to make the sub-group. This is followed by joining two sub-groups together to make the container group. Within a treatment segment, the containers pass between belt arrangements that move at different speeds for dispersing and re-compacting container flows.

A transport device includes a conveyor, a plurality of movable guide rails each of which is provided at a corresponding one of a plurality of locations along a lateral width direction, a drive shaft disposed to extend along the lateral width direction, and an actuator configured to drivingly rotate the drive shaft. A plurality of cam members are fixed to the drive shaft in respective fixing attitudes. Each movable guide rail of a plurality of movable guide rails is configured to be moved to change a height thereof depending on a fixing attitude of corresponding one of the cam members as the actuator drivingly rotates the drive shaft.

Conveying device to bring together individual packages from at least one transfer conveyor onto a discharge conveyor, comprising an aligning conveyor having a receiving end, which a feeding end or feeding ends arranged next to each other of the transfer conveyor or transfer conveyors join, and a feeding end arranged parallel to the receiving end, which a receiving end of the discharge conveyor joins, wherein a guide element having a guide surface, arranged vertically to and directly over a conveying surface of the aligning conveyor, is located between a first external side edge of the transfer conveyor or a first transfer conveyor and an opposite first side edge of the discharge conveyor, a conveying direction of the aligning conveyor having a longitudinal component, which is directed from the transfer conveyor or first transfer conveyor to the discharge conveyor and with the conveying direction forms an angle, and having a transverse component directed against the guide element.

An object centering device configured to center a conveyed food container includes a restricting guide member having a pair of guide surfaces facing the food container and configured to be respectively in contact with at least a pair of opposed contact portions. The pair of guide surfaces of the restricting guide member includes front end portions that extend away from each other toward a downstream side of a conveyance direction of the food container. The front end portions are configured such that an angle formed by the pair of guide surfaces is changeable.

To provide: a guide roller, whereby a replacement operation time can be shortened, guide roller position adjustment operations are not needed, and an equipment stop time can be reduced, and which contributes to suppression of productivity deterioration; and a substrate transfer apparatus provided with the guide roller. A substrate transfer apparatus (1) is provided with transfer rollers (3); a plurality of transfer shafts (2) that are provided with the transfer rollers (3); a guide roller (5) that guides a substrate (10); and a roller holding section (6) having a supporting shaft (62) that supports the guide roller (5) at one end. A contact section (52) of the guide roller (5) in contact with the substrate (10) can be separated from other sections (a base section (51) and a nut section (53)).

A container-guiding apparatus for guiding containers along an arcuate path includes a concave guide-region and a guide belt that forms a resting region for containers to laterally guide containers along the path. The guide belt, which is driven to endlessly circulate, applies feed forces to the containers to force them along the transport direction.

A transport device includes a conveyor, a plurality of movable guide rails each of which is provided at a corresponding one of a plurality of locations along a lateral width direction, a drive shaft disposed to extend along the lateral width direction, and an actuator configured to drivingly rotate the drive shaft. A plurality of cam members are fixed to the drive shaft in respective fixing attitudes. Each movable guide rail of a plurality of movable guide rails is configured to be moved to change a height thereof depending on a fixing attitude of corresponding one of the cam members as the actuator drivingly rotates the drive shaft.

A conveyor belt (10) of closed-path type comprising a plurality of transport plates (50), defining a transport surface for the material in a forward run of the conveyor belt itself, which plates are arranged in sequence along a longitudinal transport direction (L), wherein each plate bears a first (55) and a second (56) longitudinal end portion thereat, in said forward run, it is respectively superimposed on an adjacent plate arranged upstream of the sequence with respect to the longitudinal transport direction and placed under an adjacent plate arranged downstream in such sequence, or vice versa; and an annular structure (51) for connecting said plates being arranged, in said forward run, below said plates, wherein at least one of said plates, at said first or second longitudinal portion of superimposing or placing under an adjacent plate, has a cross section with thickness (s) decreased with respect to a remaining portion of the plate itself.