JPH01279035A - Commodity takeout apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make commodities transferable in as-received condition, by inserting the end of a separating wall into a container through its opening, separating the commodities accommodated in the container in accordance with the as-received condition and opening a shutter of a commodity take-out means. CONSTITUTION:A commodity take-out means 20 consists of a transportable case 23 provided with separating walls 21 and a shutter 22. The separating wall 21 is formed with the upper part thereof extending outward from a base 24 provided along the edges of an opening of the transportable case 23 of the commodity take-out means 20. When the commodity take-out means 20 is placed over an opening 11 of a container 10 with the upper part of the separating wall 21 downward, the separating wall 21 is so formed as to extend its end downward from the shoulder of the commodity B. The shutter 22 which consists of a sheet of plate and which can be freely opened and closed is mounted on the base side of the separating wall 21 of the commodity take-out means 20, so that all the commodities B can be almost simultaneously transferred into a commodity carry-out means 80 of a commodity supply device D.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an article removal device for taking out articles from a container such as a cardboard box or a brass tink container having an opening. The present invention relates to an article retrieval tool equipped with a partition corresponding to an arrangement of articles.

(Prior art) Conventional technologies related to article removal tools include Japanese Patent Publication No. 53-7875, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 13615-1982, Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 153017-1982, and Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-43.
Those described in '873 publication and Utility Model Publication No. 57-21842 are known.

Therefore, Japanese Patent Publication No. 51-7875 describes a method for packaging goods in which the bottom cover of a packaging box having a partition is expanded to smoothly store goods from below. -13
Publication No. 615 describes a guide frame for a bottle packaging machine that guides articles (bottles) into a packaging box or case and stores them all together without causing any disorder in the arrangement. Japanese Patent Publication No. 153017/1983 describes a type 1 sorting and taking out device that takes out articles conveyed on a line in an aligned state.

Furthermore, Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-43873 describes a manipulator that can grip or release a plurality of articles at the same time using two drive systems.
Japanese Patent Application No. 7-21842 describes a single-row supply type uncaser for multi-row stored articles that takes out articles stored in multiple rows onto a conveying surface and supplies them to a single row.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the above-mentioned conventional technology had the following problems.

That is, the article packaging method described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 53-7875, the guide frame described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 60-13615, or the type 4 method described in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 62-153017. The alignment and take-out device only discloses techniques such as packing in boxes in the product production process, and there is no equivalent description of how to take out the goods stored in containers in the arrangement in which they are stored, and there is no suggestion whatsoever. Nor.

Furthermore, in the article packaging method described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 53-7875, even if an attempt is made to transfer the article stored in the container to the above-mentioned packaging box, the inner partition of the above-mentioned packaging box will not move outside the packaging box. Since there are no protrusions, the partition cannot be inserted into the container in which the articles are stored, and the articles stored in the container cannot be taken out in an aligned state. Also, JP-A-6
The guide frame described in Publication No. 0-13615 allows the guide frame (partition) to be inserted between the bottles (articles) held by the bottle gripper, but it has a structure in which the partition is inserted into the articles from below. Therefore, it cannot be applied to take out items stored in containers.Furthermore, the sorting and take-out device for 1-piece containers described in JP-A No. 62-153017 horizontally moves the bottle aligning member. Since there is no way to take out the goods by the container, it is not possible to take out the goods stored in the container having side walls.

Furthermore, the manipulator described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-43873 or the single-row supply type anchor for multi-row stored articles described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-21842 is capable of handling a large number of items stored in a container. Therefore, if the articles in the container are not arranged in a disordered manner, the articles cannot be grasped and the articles cannot be transferred.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a cardboard box with an opening;
An object of the present invention is to provide an article retrieval tool that makes it possible to easily and efficiently take out articles stored in a certain arrangement in a container such as a plastic container from the container in accordance with the arrangement of the stored state of the articles. .

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention is an article retrieval tool for taking out articles stored in a certain arrangement in a container having an opening in a manner corresponding to the arrangement of the stored articles, the tip of which is inserted into the opening of the container. To provide an article retrieval tool, comprising: a partition that partitions the articles stored in the container according to the arrangement of the stored state; and a shutter provided on the proximal end side of the partition so as to be openable and closable. The above objective has been achieved.

[Effect]

According to the article retrieval tool of the present invention, by inserting the tip of the partition into the container through the opening of the container, dividing the articles stored in the container according to the arrangement of the stored state, and opening the shutter, The articles can be taken out in the same arrangement.

[Example] First, an article retrieval tool according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on an example of an article transfer device using the article retrieval tool. The article take-out tool of this embodiment is suitable for taking out bottle-shaped articles such as kitchen detergent, laundry detergent, shampoo, conditioner, etc. from a container having an opening.

FIGS. 1(a) and 1(b) are perspective views showing an example of an article transfer device using the article retrieval tool of this embodiment, and FIG. 1(a) shows an example of an article transfer device to which the article transfer device is applied. diagram showing,
Fig. 2(b) is a diagram showing a state in which the container and the article retrieval tool of this embodiment are cut out and turned over together by the reversing device of the article transfer device, and Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1(a). FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 1(a) and 2, the article transfer apparatus A using the article retrieval tool of this embodiment transfers articles B stored in a container 10 from a storage facility C to a container IO. Take out the supply bag of goods? It is used to transfer only the article B in the container 10 to the container 10, and is located between the storage facility C and the article supply device.

Accordingly, the article transfer device A according to this embodiment is provided with a partition 21 formed to correspond to the arrangement of the plurality of articles B stored in the container 10 and partition the articles B one by one. A reversing device 40 having an article retrieval tool 20, a container retrieval device 30 for retrieving the container IO from the storage facility C, a superimposing device 41 for overlapping the article retrieval tool 20 and the container IO; It is configured to include a carriage 50 on which the device 40 is mounted, and a stacker crane 60 that supports the carriage 50 so as to be able to move up and down.

Further, the storage facility C includes a plurality of rows and multiple stages of flow shelves 70, which will be described later, and the article supply device includes a spiral chute 90 equipped with an article cutting tool 80 for cutting out the article B from the article transfer device A. It is mainly composed of

Next, each of the above components will be explained in more detail.

First, the article retrieval device 20, the container retrieval device 3°, and the reversing bag V1 of this embodiment, which constitute the article transfer device A
40 etc. will be explained.

As shown in FIG. 3(a), the article retrieval tool 20 of this embodiment has a portable housing 2 equipped with a partition 21, a shutter 22, etc.
3, and the distal end portion of the partition 21 is formed to protrude outward from the base 24 along the open end of the portable casing 23 of the article retrieval tool 20. and partition 21
As shown in FIGS. 3(C) and 3(d), the protruding tip portion of the article retrieval tool 2 is turned over toward the opening ll side of the container 10.
When 0 is superimposed on container 2310, partition 2
1 is formed so that its tip reaches below the shoulder of the article B. In the overlapping state, the partition 21 is
As shown in FIG. 3 (1)), the container IO is partitioned into an article storage section 26 that stores articles B one by one according to the arrangement (4 x 3 rows) of the articles B stored in the container IO. A chamfer 2.1a is formed on the side end to facilitate introduction of the article retrieval tool 20 into the opening 11 of the container 10. Further, the shutter 22 is made of one plate, and is located at the base end of the partition 21 of the article picking tool 20 so that all the articles B can be transferred almost simultaneously to the article cutting tool 80 of the article feeding device fD, which will be described later. After the article B is transferred from the article take-out tool 20 to the article cutting tool 80, the article B is cut into the spiral chute 90 via the chute 91 and arranged in accordance with the picking command. is configured to do so.

The container take-out device 30 includes a pantograph-type lifting device (not shown) provided on the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60, a fixed conveyor 31 placed on the lifting device, and a container take-out side at a pivot point 32. It is configured to include a traveling conveyor 33 that can be vertically swung, and furthermore, travels so as to advance to the fluidization shelf 70.

The reversing device 40 also includes a traveling platform 42 that runs on the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60 in the flow direction of the containers IO stored in the fluidizing shelf 70, that is, in the front-rear direction with respect to the fluidizing shelf 70; A frame 43 erected on the carriage 42 and a rotating shaft 44 supported near the upper end of the frame 43 are opened and closed in the axial direction of the rotating shaft 44 (hereinafter referred to as the left-right direction), and the article retrieval tool 20 is opened and closed. A first gripping hand 45 to grip, a guide member 46 hanging down near the rotating shaft 44 side of the first gripping hand 45, and a guide member 4
6, the second gripping hand 47 moves up and down while gripping the container 10, and overlays the container 10 on the article removal tool 20 gripped by the first gripping hand 45. Among these, the first and second gripping hands 45.47
A stacking device 41 is configured by the guide member 46 and the stacking device 41, and the reversing device 40 is configured to integrally rotate the stacking device 41 about the rotating shaft 44 as a fulcrum. The first gripping hand 45 holds a screw shaft 48 supported by the frame 43 parallel to the rotating shaft 44, that is, a screw shaft 48 having a right-hand thread on one side and a left-hand thread on the other from the center of the shaft. It is configured to be opened and closed by driving.

Furthermore, an engagement protrusion (not shown) is provided on the inside of the first gripping hand 45 to engage with an engagement recess 25 formed near the base 24 on both sides of the open end of the article retrieval tool 20. , the first gripping hand 45 is configured to be able to reliably grip the article retrieval tool 20, and also to prevent the article retrieval tool 20 from falling during reversal. The second gripping hand 47 is configured by a parallelogram-shaped link mechanism (not shown) having a gripping hand base 47a as one side that moves up and down along the guide member 46, and moves in the left-right direction to a desired gripping interval. The container 10 is configured to be gripped by the container 10. Further, a screw shaft (not shown) is provided inside the guide member 46, and by driving the screw shaft, the second gripping hand 4
7 to go up and down.

Further, the stacker crane 60 is configured to run on a traveling rail 61 (not shown in FIG.
The container retrieval device 30 and the reversing device 40 mounted on the container are movable up and down.

Next, the fluidizing shelf 70 constituting the storage facility C, the article cutting tool 80 and the spiral chute 90 constituting the article supply device will be explained.

The fluidization shelf 70 of the storage facility C is composed of multiple rows and multiple stages of inclined roller conveyors, and a lower 1 is installed at the front end of the inclined roller conveyor.
A stopper 72 is provided at the front end of the inclined roller conveyor so that the supplied container IO slides down the inclined roller conveyor due to its own weight and is stopped by the stopper 72.

Further, the article cutting tool 80 of the article supplying device stores the article B transferred from the article removing tool 20, and
The housing 81 is configured to be able to cut out the articles B one by one, and is fixedly installed on the upper part of the chute 91 that guides the article B to the spiral chute 90. And article removal tool 2
Corresponding to the partition 21 of No. 0, it is configured to include a partition 82 for partitioning the articles B one by one, and a shutter 83 (see FIG. 4) for cutting out the stored articles B one by one and dropping them into the chute 91. has been done. In addition, the article cutting tool 8
A guide plate 84 is provided at the upper end of the article cutting tool 80 to guide the article picking tool 20 so as to be smoothly stacked on the article cutting tool 80.

Further, the spiral chute 90 includes a plurality of chutes 9.
1, the article B cut out from each article cutting tool 80 is conveyed and supplied to a desired container or the like (not shown).

Further, in the space formed between the spiral chute 90 and the article cutting tool 80, an article removing tool 20 is installed by inverting the article by a reversing device 40 of the article transfer device.
Container 10 under the state of being piled up on article cutting tool 80
Empty container discharge conveyor 100 adjusted to approximately the same height position as
is arranged, and the empty container lO is held by a second gripping hand 47.
The container 1 is transferred to the empty container discharge conveyor 100 by
It is configured to discharge 0 to the outside of the system.

Moreover, the article B shown in FIGS. 3(b) to 3(d) is a product stored in a flat plastic bottle, and
Twelve articles B arranged in three rows are stored in a container 10. It should be noted that the plurality of articles B stored in the container 10 have a certain amount of clearance at the top thereof, and the container l
If the O is turned over, the arrangement is likely to be disturbed, and for this reason, the partition 21 of the article retrieval tool 20 is formed to protrude from the base 24.

In addition, if the container 10 is a cardboard box having an opening 11 on the top, a plastic container, etc. as shown in FIG. If the container is packaged in a cardboard box or the like, the opening 11 may be formed by cutting the top surface in advance, and then the container may be supplied to the flow JIII 70.

Next, an example of a mode of transferring articles by the above-mentioned article transferring apparatus A using the article retrieval tool of the present invention will be described.

In each unloading lower I of the fluidized shelf 70 in the storage membrane (fr#c), there are containers 10 each storing one product B.
Multiple items are stored.

On the other hand, the article B stored in the article retrieval tool 20 is
Once transferred to the article cutting tool 80, the reversing device 40
As the stacker crane 60 travels and the carriage 50 moves up and down, it moves to a position facing the empty article take-out tool 20, and the container IO is pushed out onto the empty container discharge conveyor 100 by the tip of the second gripping hand 47. In other words,
With the interval between the second gripping hands 47 slightly smaller than the width of the container 10, the traveling table 42 is moved to the empty container discharge conveyor 100.
In other words, if the fluidized shelf 70 is used as the base, the empty container 10 is transferred to the empty container discharge conveyor 100 by moving backward. Furthermore, when the container 10 is transferred, since the first gripping hand 45 is located outside the engagement recess 25 of the article retrieval tool 20, the first gripping hand 45 is closed and the article retrieval tool 20 is gripped. . When the first gripping hand 45 grips the article retrieval tool 20, the first gripping hand 45 moves approximately 1 clockwise in the side view shown in FIG.
After rotating by 0°, the carriage 42 moves forward in the direction of the fluidization shelf 70 to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, and the first gripping hand 4
5 is further rotated approximately 170° clockwise in this state, and the first gripping hand 45 is in the state shown by the solid line in FIG.

Furthermore, the movement of the stanker crane 60 and the carriage 50
As the reversing device 40 moves to a desired position, the container take-out device 30 takes out the containers 10 stored in the lower 1 during a desired take-out period. That is, when the carriage 50 of the stacker crane 60 stops at a desired position, the traveling conveyor 33 advances 11 inches toward the unloading lower part 1, and swings the container unloading side upward about its pivot point 32. , Yong i! 1 sto
When the container 110 is taken out, the traveling conveyor 33 moves backward and carries the container 110 to a predetermined position on the fixed conveyor 31.

After that, when the fixed conveyor 31 and the traveling conveyor 33 are raised to the centering position via a pantograph-type lifting device (not shown), the second gripping hand 47 supports the bottom surface of the container 10 taken out. Grip the sides while centering it. After centering, the 21st [
! ! The holding hand 47 lifts the gripped container IO to the vicinity of the base 24 of the article retrieval tool 20 by rising along the guide member 46, and then lowers it from the base 24 as shown in FIGS. 3(C) and (d). The partition 21, which protrudes from above, is inserted into the container 10, and then stopped. Note that even if the arrangement of the articles B is disturbed due to the gap at the top of the container 10, the partition 21 is inserted into this gap to ensure the original arrangement of the articles and separate them into individual items. Furthermore, when the article removal tool 20 and the container 10 are overlapped, if a gap δ of approximately 5 fences is left as shown in FIG.
can be smoothly transferred from the container IO to the article removal tool 20.

As described above, when the base 24 of the article removal device 20 and the opening 11 of the container 10 are overlapped, the reversing device 40
is driven to invert the article removal tool 20 and the container 10 as shown in FIG. 1(b). That is, with the rotating shaft 44 as a fulcrum, the first. The second gripping hand 45,47 and the guide member 46 are reversed counterclockwise in FIG. To explain this reversal operation in more detail, after the first gripping hand 45 rotates approximately 170 degrees counterclockwise, the traveling platform 42 moves backward,
The article removing tool 20 in the reversing process is transferred to the article cutting tool 8.
0, the first gripping hand 45 is further rotated approximately 10° counterclockwise, and the article extracting tool 20 and the container 10 are superimposed on the article cutting tool 80. Due to this reversing operation, the article B stored in the container IO is
Each item is partitioned one by one by the partition 21, and one more item is replaced by the item retrieval tool 20.

The article removing tool 20 and the container 10 are placed on the article cutting tool 80.
When they overlap, the first gripping hand 45 opens to release the article retrieval tool 20, and the second gripping hand 47 also opens to release the container 10, and then the carriage 42 moves forward.
Waiting in preparation for transferring the next article B.

The articles B stored in the article cutting tool 80 are dropped into the chute 91 by sequentially opening the shanks 83 corresponding to the article rows, and when all the articles B are cut out from the article cutting tool 80, Item removal tool 2
The shank 22 of No. 0 is opened in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 4, and all the articles B stored in the article removing tool 2o are automatically transferred to the article cutting tool 80.

As described above, the articles B transferred to the article cutting tool 80 are sequentially cut out by opening the shutter 83 as shown in FIG. 4 in accordance with the desired number of pieces specified in the picking command. The product B is placed in the chute 91,
The container is transported through a spiral chute 90 to a desired container or the like (not shown). In addition, a plurality of shades 91
Since the spiral chutes 90 are connected to each other at different heights, articles B of different types can be automatically arranged into one container etc. from a plurality of article cutting tools 80 at almost the same time. I can do it.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the article retrieval tool 20, in which an article B having a different shape from the article B shown in FIG. 3 is shown.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view schematically illustrating a state in which an article retrieving tool 20 for transferring an article B and an article cutting tool 80 are superimposed, and shows a state when an article B is cut out. In this example, the articles B are arranged in 4×2 columns and stored in the container 10.

Above, one embodiment of the article retrieval tool of the present invention, one embodiment of the article transfer device using the same, and the manner of transferring the article have been described, but the present invention is not limited to these examples and embodiments. For example, Fig. 5 (a)
), the article retrieval tool 20 shown in FIGS. 6 to 9 can provide the same effects as the above embodiment.

That is, FIG. 5(a) is a diagram showing a third embodiment of the article retrieval tool 20, and is a perspective view showing the article retrieval tool 20 for taking out the cylindrical article B shown in FIG. 5(b). It is. As shown in FIG. 5(b), the article B is
Unlike the article B shown in the figure, the article B is shown in a cylindrical shape, and adjacent articles B are in line contact with each other over the entire height direction. Therefore, there is no gap between the adjacent articles B and B that allows the insertion of the partition 21, and the shape of the tip of the partition 21 shown in FIG. 3 or 4 allows the tip to be inserted into the container 10, separating the articles B. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5(a), the article retrieval tool 20 of this embodiment has a partition 21 whose tip end is shaped like a saw blade, and other points are as shown in FIG. 3 or It has the same structure as the article retrieval tool 20 shown in FIG. That is, the article retrieval tool 20 shown in FIG. The partition 21 is formed to protrude from the opening end of the transportable housing 23 so as to avoid the position where the articles B come into contact with each other, and is formed with a convex portion 21b and a concave portion 21c, respectively. ,!: It is formed into a saw blade shape, and the partition 21 as a whole protrudes from the base 24.

Further, FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a fourth embodiment of the article retrieval tool 20, and the article retrieval tool 20 of this embodiment is
Applied to the same article B as the article B shown in FIG. 5(b),
All the configurations are the same except that the shape of the tip of the partition 21 is different from each of the above embodiments.

Further, FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a fifth embodiment of the article retrieval tool 20, which is applied to the bottle-shaped article B shown in the same figure, and has a large serrated protrusion and a small serrated protrusion at the tip. The partitions 21 are provided with alternating sections.

Further, FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a sixth embodiment of the article retrieval tool 20, and the article B is the same as the article B shown in FIG.
This is an article take-out tool 20 for taking out items from a container 10, and unlike the article take-out tool 20 shown in FIG.
The portable housing 23 is omitted, so that the article retrieval tool 20 is provided with a partition 21 formed only from the tip of the partition 21 shown in FIG. When the article retrieval tool 20 and the container 2S10 are reversed as shown in FIG. The article waits until it is taken out by the tool 20 and transferred to the article cutting tool 80. In other words, container 1
0 is the portable housing 2 in each of the above-mentioned article removal tools 20
It will play the role of 3. When a transfer command is given to the article cutting tool 80, the shutter 22 is opened and the article B stored in the container 10 is transferred to the article cutting tool 80.

Moreover, FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a seventh embodiment showing a modified example of the article retrieval tool 20 shown in FIG. By using the article extractor 20 of this embodiment, the article extractor 80 described above can be omitted.

The opening 11 of the container 10 may be provided on the side surface of the container IO, the articles B may be stored in the container IO in multiple stages, and the partition 21 may be provided in the container 2310. The articles B may be divided into two or more pieces.

In addition, if the reversing device 40 is provided for each unloading lower 1, the stanker crane 60 can be omitted.

Of course, in the above-mentioned article transfer mode using the article retrieval tool of the present invention, the same applies even if the container lO containing the article B to be transferred is stored in a location other than the fluidic shelf 70. It goes without saying that the above-described method of transferring the article can be applied to.

[Effects of the Invention] The article retrieval tool of the present invention includes a partition whose tip is inserted into the opening of a container and partitions the articles stored in the container according to the arrangement of the stored states, and a proximal end of the partition. On the other hand, since it is equipped with a shutter that can be opened and closed freely, the items stored in a container such as a cardboard box or a plastic container having an opening in a certain arrangement can be adjusted to correspond to the arrangement of the stored state of the items. It can be easily and efficiently taken out from the container.

If a container with an opening provided in the top surface is used, the articles stored in the container can be partitioned into arbitrary quantities and taken out from above the opening.

Moreover, if the articles stored in the container are separated one by one by the partitions of the article pick-up tool, it is possible to pick any number of articles.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1(a) is a perspective view showing an example of an article transfer device using an article retrieval tool according to an embodiment of the present invention; Figure 2 (1) is a diagram showing the applied device; Figure 2 (1) is a diagram showing a state in which the container and the article retrieval tool of this embodiment are cut out and turned upside down together by the reversing device of the article transfer device; Figure 1(a)
FIG. 3(a) is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of an article retrieval tool constituting an article transfer device, and FIG. 3(b) is a perspective view showing a container in which articles are stored. ,
The same figure (C) shows the article removal tool shown in the same figure (a) and the same figure [
(d) is a side view of (C), and FIG. 4 is a front view showing the container shown in FIG. FIG. 5(a) is a perspective view showing a state in which a container containing an article having a different shape than the article shown in FIG. ) is a perspective view showing the article retrieval tool of the third embodiment, FIG. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the article retrieving tool of the fifth embodiment, and FIG. The side view and FIG. 8 are views showing the article retrieval tool of the sixth embodiment, and a perspective view showing the article retrieval tool superimposed on the article cutting tool, and FIG. 9 is a view showing the article retrieval tool shown in FIG. 8. It is a figure which shows the article removal tool of 7th Example which is a modification of a tool. B... Article 10... Container 11... Opening 20... Article removal tool 21... Partition 22... Shutter patent applicant Kao Co., Ltd. agent Patent attorney Ha Tori Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 (a) (b) Figure 9 Procedural amendments Commissioner of the Patent Office Yoshida 9 Fumi Tsuyoshi 1, Indication of the case Patent application No. 1983-106169 2, Name of the invention Article removal tool 3 , Relationship with the case of the person making the amendment Patent applicant (091) Kao Co., Ltd. 4, Agent No. 601 Pacific Nogizaka, 6-29 Akasaka 9-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo Voluntary amendment (within 1 year and 3 months from the filing of the application) Correction) 6. Drawings subject to correction 7. Contents of correction + 11 Figure 9 has been corrected as attached (symbol "2.-2J
Figure 9 Procedural amendment November 30, 1985 1. Indication of the case Patent application No. 1983-106169 2. Name of the invention Article removal odor 3. Person making the amendment Relationship to the case Patent applicant (091) Kao Co., Ltd. 4, Agent Pacific Nogizaka 601, 6-29 Akasaka 9-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo Voluntary amendment (amendment within 1 year and 3 months from the filing date) 7. Contents of amendment (1) Page 8, No. 18 Corrected "Figure 3 (b)" in the line to "Figure 3 (a)". (2) “To the outside” on page 13, line 20 as “to the outside” and '4
+li positive. (3) Amend Figure 2 as shown in the attached Figure 2 (in Figure 2, the code ``6'' is changed to r130j and the code ``Standing'' is deleted). that's all

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An article retrieval tool for taking out articles stored in a certain arrangement in a container having an opening in a manner corresponding to the arrangement of the stored articles, the tip of which is inserted into the opening of the container, An article retrieval tool comprising: a partition that partitions the articles stored in the container according to the arrangement of the stored items; and a shutter provided on the proximal end side of the partition so as to be openable and closable. (2) The article retrieval tool according to claim 1, wherein the partition is configured to separate the articles stored in the container one by one.