A taping device includes a device base with a tape traveling groove in a front surface of the device base; a parts conveying disk including parts housing grooves in an outer circumferential surface of the parts conveying disk at regular angular intervals and a rear surface disposed to face the front surface of the device base; a disk rotating mechanism for intermittently rotating the parts conveying disk; a parts feeding mechanism for feeding, in a parts feeding zone, the parts into the parts housing grooves; and a parts inserting mechanism for inserting, at a parts insertion position, the parts from the parts housing grooves into the parts housing recessed portions.

A screw forwarding device for a screw feeder includes a base plate, a vibration mechanism including at least one spring and a vibration motor connected to the at least one spring, and a rail for receiving screws. The rail is connected to a first end of the at least one spring and the at least one spring is arranged at an oblique angle to the rail. The screw forwarding device further includes a fastening mechanism for rigidly connecting a second end of the at least one spring to the base plate, whereby a movement path of the vibration mechanism, during a use of the screw forwarding device, defines a plane of movement. The base plate is oriented substantially parallel to the plane of movement defined by the vibration mechanism.

A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.

A reaction vessel pickup mechanism, an automatic loading device, a sample analyzer, and a loading method are disclosed. Driven by a driving structure, each of the pickup blocks moves in a first preset time or a preset distance and then stops or shakes, so that a reaction vessel is dropped from the pickup blocks more easily.

A parts supply apparatus includes multiple parts containers configured to accommodate multiple parts, and a stage. The multiple parts containers are attached to the stage, and the multiple parts are scattered on the stage from the multiple parts containers.

An apparatus that conveys pellet-shaped articles may include a hopper that receives a quantity of the pellet-shaped articles. The hopper may include one or more openings to direct a flow of air into the hopper to dislodge jamming or bridging of pellet-shaped articles within the hopper.

A bolt supply device includes a conveyor, a bolt absorbing portion, a bolt storage portion, and an allocation portion. The conveyor is an endless belt and is provided to circulate between a first height and a second height above the first height. The bolt absorbing portion protrudes on an outer surface of a ring formed by the conveyor and is configured to absorb a bolt. The bolt storage portion is provided in a region where the bolt absorbing portion ascends, the region located at the first height. The allocation portion is configured to swing to drop the bolt in either one of both width directions of the conveyor at the second height, the bolt absorbed by the bolt absorbing portion in the bolt storage portion.

A device for the orientation and feeding of closures includes a hopper for containing closures and a lifting device.

The lifting device includes a component used for selecting the closures which are adapted to allow the feeding to an unloading region of the closures. The lifting device includes at least one transfer element to move along a movement direction between a loading region and an unloading region.

Provided is an apparatus for sorting piece goods and in particular plastic parisons with a delivery device which delivers the piece goods and with a sorting device which is arranged in a transport direction of the piece goods after the delivery device and is suitable for aligning the piece goods at least partially, and with a dispensing device which is arranged in the transport direction of the piece goods between the delivery device and the sorting device and which conveys the piece goods from the delivery device to the sorting device and is suitable and intended for dispensing the piece goods reaching the sorting device from the delivery device, wherein the dispensing device includes a body which is rotatable about a predetermined axis of rotation and on this body a receiver is arranged for receiving a predetermined number of piece goods.

An apparatus that conveys pellet-shaped articles may include a hopper that receives a quantity of the pellet-shaped articles. The hopper may include one or more openings to direct a flow of air into the hopper to dislodge jamming or bridging of pellet-shaped articles within the hopper.