Abstract: An appearance inspecting apparatus includes a parts feeder aligning rubber stoppers in tandem by torsionally vibrating a bowl having a spiral track formed therein, an air conveying portion conveying the rubber stoppers aligned in tandem by blowing compressed air thereto, first and second conveying tables conveying rubber stoppers by suction-holding a surface not to be inspected of the rubber stoppers, an inspecting portion inspecting a surface to be inspected of the rubber stoppers conveyed by the first and second conveying tables, and a selecting portion sorting out rubber stoppers that are determined to be defective, in accordance with the result of inspection by the inspecting portion. Objects to be inspected having a complicated shape are aligned preliminarily by using a vibration parts feeder, while highly accurate appearance inspection is conducted.

Abstract: An appearance inspecting apparatus includes a parts feeder aligning rubber stoppers in tandem by torsionally vibrating a bowl having a spiral track formed therein, an air conveying portion conveying the rubber stoppers aligned in tandem by blowing compressed air thereto, first and second conveying tables conveying rubber stoppers by suction-holding a surface not to be inspected of the rubber stoppers, an inspecting portion inspecting a surface to be inspected of the rubber stoppers conveyed by the first and second conveying tables, and a selecting portion sorting out rubber stoppers that are determined to be defective, in accordance with the result of inspection by the inspecting portion. Objects to be inspected having a complicated shape are aligned preliminarily by using a vibration parts feeder, while highly accurate appearance inspection is conducted.

Abstract: Inspection equipment for inspecting products including medicines such as phials and ampuls and foods such as drinking water. The products are placed on the pedestals of an indexing turn table to be intermittently transferred. The products are held on their peripheral surface by a disk turn table and a pair of rollers and rotated on their own axes by the turn of the disk turn table. The products intermittently transferred are lighted on their surface to be inspected for each stop, inspected by being imaged with an imaging device, and sorted into a nondefective products group and a defective products group with a sorting device.

Abstract: A granule inspection apparatus comprising a pair of transparent rotating body installed in parallel at prescribed spacing, a granule falling passage being formed between mutually opposing surfaces of the rotating bodies, granules are fallen through this passage, falling granules are lighted by the reflection light source arranged on the side of one transparent rotating body and by the transmission light source arranged on the side of the other transparent rotating body, an image sensor is picked up the images of the lighted granules, presence of defectives is detected from image signals, a selector is driven to select non-defectives from defectives.

Abstract: A transport device is provided which includes a pair of opposed parallel plates having respective outer edges spaced apart from one another to form an open slit area between the outer edges and an inside area between respective central portions of the opposed plates. Both the outer edges are movable and are adapted to receive the articles thereon to transport the same. A suction device sucks air from the outside through the open slit area and into the inside area to hold the articles by suction on the outer edges of the opposed parallel plates.

Abstract: An external appearance inspecting system is disclosed. In the system, a TV camera is employed for forming a TV image scope. A detection area and an inspection area are electrically created in the TV image scope. The appearance of an image of an object to be inspected is detected by the detection area. Then, the image of the object is inspected by the inspection area. The inspection area is created at the (N+K).sub.th (N=1, 2, 3 . . . , K=1, 2, 3 . . . ) scanning field of the TV image scope, if the image of the object is detected by the detection area which was created at the N.sub.th scanning field.