Patents by Inventor Shigemitsu Hirama

Shigemitsu Hirama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Bar-like article supplying apparatus
    Patent number: 5435688
    Abstract: A bar-like article supplying apparatus is constructed such that a tray is carried in while remaining in an erected condition on a dolly, which moves intermittently. The tray is open at an upper face thereof and is turned over and fed to drop and supply bar-like articles from the tray into a supply port. Then, the inverted tray is turned over and fed so as to be returned into an erected condition and then is carried out to a dolly while remaining in the erected condition. After the tray is carried into an occupied tray turning over mechanism by a carrying-in mechanism, the occupied tray turning over mechanism is turned over, and consequently, the inverted tray is in an inverted condition just above the supply port so that supply of the bar-like articles is started. When the tray during such supplying is transferred to an empty tray turning over mechanism, the occupied tray turning over mechanism is turned over back to allow a next tray to be carried in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignees: Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works Limited, Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Tokunaga, Shigemitsu Hirama, Fujio Fukamizu
  • Article delivery transferring device in a collective packing machine
    Patent number: 4680919
    Abstract: An article delivery transferring device in a collective packing machine of stop waiting operation control system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Hirama, Satoru Aida, Hideo Soyama