JPH1029690A - Hopper for easily breakable article - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an easily breakable article being vulnerable to a dropping impact, from being damaged even when being thrown in from above, house the easily breakable articles in an internal space without gaps, and reduce an areal space for the housing. SOLUTION: For a hopper 1 for waste glass bottle, in a square cylindrical main body 10 being erected, a movable sliding plate 21 for an upper stage, is downward diagonally provided from a wall surface side to the central part, and the rotating shaft 31 of the movable sliding plate 21 is pivotally supported by the wall surface 12 and a wall surface 14, and the movable sliding plate 21 is attached while being urged by coil springs 34b, etc., with levers 33b, etc., being provided on both end parts of the coil springs, in a manner to be kicked up around the rotating shaft 31. Under the upper movable sliding plate 21, a movable sliding plate 22 for a lower stage, is provided in the same manner from a wall surface 13 side being confronted with the wall surface 12, to the central part, and in addition, under the movable sliding plate 22, a bottom plate 16 onesidedly tilting from the wall surface 12 side to the wall surface 13 side, is formed, and stages wherein the waste glass bottles are not broken when being dropped, are provided between them.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hopper for easily breakable articles, and more particularly, to an upright type hopper in which easily breakable articles are stored without being damaged when thrown.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Glass bottles, various lamps, frozen plastic packaged foods, thin cast products, and the like are vulnerable to a drop impact and cannot drop a large drop from above. It is limited and requires a lot of space to accommodate large quantities.
However, a hopper that solves this problem has not yet been developed.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and does not cause breakage even when an easily breakable article which is vulnerable to a drop impact is thrown in from above. An object of the present invention is to provide a hopper which can be stored without any space and does not require an area space for the storage.

[0004]

The hopper according to the present invention has a multi-stage movable sliding plate alternately opposed to an upright rectangular tubular main body, and is inclined downward at an angle at which the easily breakable article slides down by its own weight. The angle at which the easily breakable article slides down by its own weight, or provided through a step that does not break even if the easily breakable article falls, or a multi-stage fixed slide plate is spirally stepped in an upright rectangular cylindrical body. It is provided with a step which is inclined downward and is not damaged even if the easily breakable article falls. Further, a spiral slideway having an angle at which the easily breakable article slides down by its own weight is provided in the cylindrical main body from above to below.

[0005] In this way, the easily breakable articles supplied from above are guided downward without being broken, and the hoppers for the easily breakable articles have their internal spaces filled with the easily breakable articles without any gaps. It is.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The hopper for easily breakable articles according to the first invention has an upright rectangular cylindrical main body, and has a plurality of areas occupying at least half of the cross section of the main body when projected on a horizontal plane. The movable sliding plate is biased so that the pivot axis of the edge thereof is alternately pivoted from above to below on the opposite wall surface side of the main body and springs up with a spring, and these movable sliding plates are opposed to each other. Even if an easily breakable article falls between the upper and lower movable slide plates in which the front ends are interlocked with each other at a predetermined angle so as to face the wall surface and face down toward the center at a predetermined angle. A step that does not break is provided, and when the load from the easily breakable article is applied to the movable slide plate, the article is rotated downward.

[0007] The easily breakable article is put on the uppermost movable slide plate, falls down the movable slide plate sequentially, and is stored from the bottom. In any one of the movable slide plates, the step is downwardly filled by the easily breakable article, and as the easily breakable article covers the movable slide plate and increases the load, the movable slide plate is turned downward and almost The vertical position is reached and the easily breakable article spreads to the space below when the movable slide plate was unloaded. In this manner, the movable slide plate is sequentially rotated from below to the vertical position, so that the internal space of the hopper is finally filled with the easily breakable article without any gap.

A hopper for an easily breakable article according to a second aspect of the present invention has an upright rectangular tube-shaped main body, and a fixed sliding plate occupying a quarter surface when the horizontal cross section of the main body is divided into four parts when projected onto a horizontal plane. However, a similar fixed slide plate is similarly provided from the adjacent surface with a downward slope through a step that is provided from one wall surface along the adjacent surface and is not damaged even if the easily breakable article falls. In this manner, a plurality of fixed sliding plates are provided in a spiral staircase from above to below in the main body.

[0009] The easily breakable article is put on the uppermost fixed slide plate, falls down the fixed slide plate sequentially, and is accommodated from the bottom. In any of the fixed sliding plates, when the step of downward is filled with the easily breakable article, the falling easily breakable article falls to the side from the fixed sliding plate and spreads. Since such a phenomenon also occurs sequentially in the upper fixed slide plate, the internal space of the hopper is finally filled with the easily breakable article without any gap.

A hopper for easily breakable articles according to a third aspect of the present invention has an upright cylindrical main body, and a spiral runway is provided along an inner peripheral surface of the main body except for an axial center portion of the main body. A low side wall for preventing falling down to the side is attached to the inner peripheral side, and the pitch of the spiral is set so as to prevent the easily breakable article from falling and being damaged.

The easily breakable article is thrown into the top of the slideway from above, and slides down the slideway and is stored from the bottom. On the sloping road at a location where the slidable fragile articles are being filled, the fragile articles stacked on the sloping road fall across the side wall and spread to the side. Such portions sequentially move upward, and eventually the internal space of the hopper is filled with the easily breakable article without any gap.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a hopper for easily breakable articles according to the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a side view of a waste glass bottle hopper 1 of Embodiment 1 corresponding to the first invention.
2 is a front view, FIG. 3 is a plan view, and FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway perspective view thereof. Referring to FIGS. 1 to 4, waste glass bottle hopper 1 has a main body 10 formed as a whole in the shape of an upright rectangular tube, and at the bottom, waste glass bottle G slides down by its own weight and is discharged. A bottom plate 16 having a one-side inclination set at an inclination angle is provided. The main body 10 is fixed to the gantry 41 composed of a frame assembled in a rectangular parallelepiped shape by bolts 43 via mounting members 42 at four places.

The main body 10 is formed of the wall surfaces 11, 12, 13, 14 and the above-mentioned bottom plate 16 inclined downward from the wall surface 11 toward the wall surface 13, and the bottom surface 16 at the lowermost end of the inclination of the bottom plate 16 is discarded. A take-out door 17 for the glass bottle G is provided. Then, the waste glass bottle G is supplied from the discharge end of the belt conveyor 9 installed above the main body 10 via the chute 15 attached to the upper part of the wall surface 11.

Inside the main body 10, an upper movable sliding plate 21 is provided at an inclination angle at which the waste glass bottle G slides down by its own weight from the side of the wall surface 11 toward the center.
A similar lower movable slide plate 22 is provided with a similar inclination from the wall surface 13 side opposite to 1 toward the center, and further below the lower slide plate 16 is the above-described bottom plate 16. That is, they are provided with the directions of the downward inclination reversed.

The ends of the movable slide plate 21 and the movable slide plate 22 both extend to positions slightly beyond the center, and the distal end of the movable slide plate 21 slightly covers above the distal end of the movable slide plate 22. ing. And the upper movable slide plate 21
The vertical step H ₁ from the tip to the surface of the lower movable sliding plate 22 are a 280 mm, lower movable sliding plate 2
The vertical step H ₂ from the tip of No. 2 to the surface of the bottom plate 16 is 3
The drop is set at 20 mm so that the waste glass bottle G does not break even if dropped. Further, rubber linings 21R, 22R, and 16R are provided on the surfaces of the movable slide plate 21, the movable slide plate 22, and the bottom plate 16 in order to prevent the waste glass bottle G from being damaged by a drop impact as shown in FIGS. Is given.

A description will be given of the mounting of the upper movable slide plate 21. The rotating shaft 31 integral with the end of the movable slide plate 21 on the side wall 11 side is attached to the bearing members 32a and 32b mounted on the side walls 12 and 14. The lever 3 is supported at both ends in parallel with the side walls 12 and 14 respectively.
3a and 33b are integrally fixed. Also lever 3
One ends of coil springs 34a and 34b are attached to 3a and 33b, respectively, and the other ends are fixed to fixing members 35a and 35b attached to the side walls 12 and 14, respectively. The coil springs 34a and 34b Is urged to jump up around the rotation shaft 31. Locking members 37a and 37b are provided on the side walls 12 and 14 so as to be in contact with the surface of the tip portion of the slide plate 21, thereby preventing the slide plate 21 from jumping beyond the limit. The fixing members 35 for the coil springs 34a and 34b
a and 35b are attached to any of the mounting holes in the vertical hole rows 36a and 36b provided on the side walls 12 and 14, and by changing the positions of the mounting holes, the urging force on the movable slide plate 21 is reduced. It can be adjusted.

Since the lower movable slide plate 22 is also mounted by the same mechanism, the corresponding components are denoted by the same reference numerals with "'", and their description is omitted. The mounting directions of the coil springs 34a 'and 34b' of the movable slide plate 22 are upside down as compared with the coil springs 34a and 34b of the movable slide plate 21, but the operation is exactly the same.

The waste glass bottle hopper 1 of the first embodiment is configured as described above. Next, the operation of the hopper 1 will be described.

Referring to FIG. 1, a waste glass bottle G is put into the main body 10 from the downstream end of the belt conveyor 9 installed above via the chute 15 of the hopper 1 for waste glass bottle. The waste glass bottle G slides down the movable slide plate 21 following the chute 15, and falls onto the movable slide plate 22 from the tip. Then, the movable glass plate 22 is slid down and dropped from the tip onto the bottom plate 16, so that the waste glass bottles G start to be accommodated in order from the deepest part of the main body 10. During this time, the step H between the movable slide plates 21 and 22 and the bottom plate 16
_1, to limit the magnitude of H _2, and rubber lining 21R for the their surface to prevent shock, 22R, since 16R is applied, waste glass bottles G will not be damaged when falling.

Next, FIG. 5 shows [5]-in FIG.
[5] FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along a line, and shows a process of accommodating the waste glass bottle G together with the same FIG. 6, but with reference to FIG. 5,
When a certain amount of waste glass bottles G are accommodated along the inclination of the bottom plate 16, the waste glass bottles G begin to accumulate also on the tip of the lower movable slide plate 22 shown by a dashed line, so that a load is applied to the movable slide plate 22. As a result, the movable slide plate 22 starts to rotate downward against the urging force of the coil springs 34a 'and 34b' on the side walls 12 and 14. The movable slide plate 22 indicated by a solid line in FIG. 5 is in the middle of rotation, and as the load applied to the movable slide plate 22 by the waste glass bottle G that falls from and covers the upper movable slide plate 21 increases, the coil spring 34 a The movable slide plate 22 is turned downward against the urging force of the '34b', and the waste glass bottle G to be loaded does not fall down a large head, and the movable glass plate G is below the movable slide plate 22 at the time of no load in FIG. Up to the space.

Further, referring to FIG.
After a ′ and 34b ′ are extended and the lower movable slide plate 22 in the lower stage is rotated to a substantially vertical position, as the waste glass bottle G is inserted, the movable slide plate 21 in the upper stage is similarly rotated,
The coil springs 34a and 34b extend from the no-load position shown in FIG. 1 to the vertical position shown by the solid line through the position shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG. 6, and the internal space of the waste glass bottle hopper 1 Except for the back side, the waste glass bottle G is filled without gaps. During this time, the waste glass bottle G does not fall down a large head, and is stored without damage.

(Embodiment 2) FIG. 7 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a waste glass bottle hopper 2 of Embodiment 2 corresponding to the second invention. The easily breakable article hopper 2 has a main body 50 formed in the shape of an upright rectangular tube as a whole, and the bottom of the hopper 2 has a one-side inclination set at an inclination angle at which the waste glass bottle G slides down by its own weight and is discharged. A bottom plate 56 is provided.

The main body 50 is fixed to a gantry 44 composed of a frame assembled in a rectangular parallelepiped shape by bolts 46 via mounting members 45 in two upper and lower stages.

The main body 50 is formed from the wall surfaces 51, 52, 53, 54 and the above-mentioned bottom plate 56 inclined downward from the wall surface 51 toward the wall surface 53.
The surface of 6 is rubber-lined to prevent the waste glass bottle G from being damaged by a drop impact. On the wall surface 53 at the lowermost end of the inclination of the bottom plate 56, the take-out door 5 for the waste glass bottle G is provided.
7 are provided. And it is thrown in via the chute 55 attached to the upper part of the wall surface 51.

Inside the main body 50, a waste glass bottle G is self-weighted by a fixed sliding plate 61 occupying a quarter surface obtained by dividing the cross section of the rectangular tube into four in the vertical and horizontal directions when projected on a plane. It is fixed to the wall surface 51 at an inclination angle at which it slides down. In addition, only the fixed slide plate 61 serving as the first loading point is provided with a fall prevention plate 69 on a side edge opposite to the wall surface 52. The fixed slide plate 61 is also fixed to the wall surface 52, and a fixed slide plate 62 similar to the fixed slide plate 61 is inclined downward along the side wall 53 from the distal end position of the fixed slide plate 61 on the wall surface 52. Fixed. The maximum drop formed between the fixed slide plate 61 and the fixed slide plate 62 is an interval at which the waste glass bottle G does not break even if dropped.

Similarly, the wall surface 53 is sequentially moved downward.
The fixed sliding plate 63 is fixed downward from the wall surface 54 to the fixed sliding plate 63, and furthermore, the fixed sliding plate 65 is fixed from the turned wall surface 51, then the fixed sliding plate 66, the fixed sliding plate 67.
The bottom of the fixed slide plate 67 is the bottom plate 56 via a step which is not damaged even if the waste glass bottle G falls. That is, the fixed sliding plates 61 to 67 are attached in a spiral step shape counterclockwise when viewed from above, and the surfaces thereof are provided with rubber linings 61R to 67R.

The waste glass bottle hopper 2 according to the second embodiment is configured as described above. Next, the operation of the hopper 2 will be described.

The waste glass bottle G is put into the main body 50 of the waste glass bottle hopper 2 via the chute 55 provided on the upper surface of the wall surface 51. Waste glass bottle G is chute 55
Then, the fixed slide plate 61 is slid down, and further falls onto the fixed slide plate 62 from the tip. By repeating such a drop, the waste glass bottle G finally falling from the fixed slide plate 67 is accommodated on the one-side inclined bottom plate 56 and starts to be stacked.

The tip of the fixed slide plate 67 is a waste glass bottle G.
In the state where the waste glass bottle G is buried and the head downward is filled, the waste glass bottle G that subsequently falls is fixed by the fixed sliding plate 67.
And between the upper and lower fixed slide plates 66, that is, to the side of the fixed slide plate 67, and is accommodated below the fixed slide plate 66, so that the portion below the fixed slide plate 67 is damaged. It will be almost filled with no waste glass bottle G. The upper surface level of the waste glass bottle G accommodated in this way rises, and the waste glass bottle G slides under its own weight into the space where the gap is generated, so that the internal space of the waste glass bottle hopper 2 is filled with the waste glass bottle G. It is.

(Embodiment 3) FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of a waste glass bottle hopper 3 of Embodiment 3 corresponding to the third invention. The easily breakable article hopper 3 has a main body 70 formed in an upright cylindrical shape as a whole, and the bottom thereof has a one-sided inclined bottom plate set at an inclined angle at which the waste glass bottle G slides down by its own weight and is discharged. 76 are provided.

The main body 70 is fixed at two upper and lower positions to a gantry 47 composed of a frame assembled in a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

The main body 70 is formed of a cylindrical wall surface 71 and the above-described one-side inclined bottom plate 76. The surface of the bottom plate 76 is provided with a rubber lining 76R to prevent the waste glass bottle G from being damaged by a drop impact. On the wall surface 71 at the lowermost end of the inclination of the bottom plate 76, a door 7 for taking out the waste glass bottle G is provided.
7 are provided. And the waste glass bottle G is the wall 7
It is thrown in via a chute 75 attached to the uppermost part of 1.

Inside the main body 70, there is formed a spiral slideway 81 extending from the upper portion to the lower portion along the inner peripheral side of the wall surface 71 except for the axial center portion. The inclination of the slideway 81 is set to an angle at which the waste glass bottle G can slide down by its own weight, and the pitch between the spirals is set to an interval at which the waste glass bottle G does not break even if dropped. In addition, a bottom side wall 82 is attached to an inner peripheral edge of the slideway 81 in order to prevent the slideway from falling to the side when sliding down. A step is provided between the end of the slideway 81 and the bottom plate 76 so that the glass bottle G is not damaged even if the waste glass bottle G falls.

The waste glass bottle hopper 3 of the third embodiment is configured as described above. Next, the operation of the hopper 3 will be described.

The waste glass bottle G is put into the main body 70 of the waste glass bottle hopper 3 via the chute 75 provided at the uppermost part of the wall surface 71. Waste glass bottle G is chute 7
Following 5, the waste glass bottle G that slides down the slideway 81 and falls from the tip is accommodated from the deepest part on the one-sided bottom plate 76. When a certain amount of waste glass bottles G are stored on the bottom plate 76, the tip of the slideway 81 is filled with the waste glass bottles G. In such a state, the waste glass bottle G that subsequently slides down is moved down the slideway 81.
And fall laterally over the low side wall 82 to spread over the entire surface. As the waste glass bottle G is accommodated in this way, the place where the slideway 81 is filled with the waste glass bottle G gradually rises, and finally, the internal space of the waste glass bottle hopper 3 is closed by the waste glass bottle G. Filled without.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is, of course, not limited thereto, and various modifications can be made based on the technical spirit of the present invention.

For example, in the first embodiment, the movable slide plate 2
Although the waste glass bottle hopper 1 provided with the two-stage movable slide plate 1 and the movable slide plate 22 has been described, by increasing the number of stages to four or seven stages, a large-sized device that does not require an additional space is required. Hopper for waste glass bottles.

In the first embodiment, the coil spring 34
a, 34b, the movable slide plate 21
Is pivotally supported at a position slightly inward from the wall surface 11 side, so that when the waste glass bottle hopper 1 is filled with the waste glass bottle G, a slight space is provided on the back side of the movable slide plate 21. But the coil springs 34a, 34b
Of the fixing members 35a, 35b are moved away from the main body 10, for example, on the extension surfaces of the wall surfaces 12, 14 toward the belt conveyor 9, or the angle between the movable sliding plate 21 and the levers 33a, 33b. The relationship is the same as the angular relationship between the movable slide plate 22 and the levers 33a ', 33b', and the mounting positions of the fixing members 35a, 35b are moved to the extension surfaces above the wall surfaces 12, 14 to thereby extend the position.
The rotating shaft 31 of the movable slide plate 21 can be made to approach the wall surface 11 side.

In the first embodiment, the coil spring 34
Although the coil springs are provided on both sides of the main body 10 like the a and b and the coil springs 34a 'and 34b', they may be provided on only one of them.

In the first embodiment, the movable slide plates 21 and 22 are urged by the coil springs. Instead of the coil springs, the movable slide plates 21 and 22 are wrapped around a rotating shaft so as to support and expand between the lower surface of the movable slide plates and the wall surface. Or a laterally lying V-shaped leaf spring which is sandwiched between the lower surface and the wall surface of the movable slide plate and biased so as to expand between them.

In the second embodiment, for example, following the level of the lower end of the fixed slide plate 61, which is the upper stage, the fixed slide plate 6
Although the two upper ends are provided, a step may be provided between them.

In each of the embodiments, the waste glass bottle G is taken up as a representative example of the easily breakable article.
Not limited thereto, various lamps, plastic packaged foods at a freezing temperature, unreinforced plastic molded products, thin-walled cast products, and various other objects which are vulnerable to drop impact can be accommodated.

[0044]

The present invention is embodied in the form described above, and has the following effects.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the upper movable slide plate, the lower movable slide plate, and the lowermost bottom plate in the rectangular cylinder reverse the directions of downward inclination of each other. The movable slip plates are urged so that they are not damaged even if the easily breakable article falls, and each movable slide plate is urged to jump up. And eventually pivots to a substantially vertical position, so that even if the hopper has a large height, its internal space is filled with easily breakable articles without any gaps. No damage to the goods. This makes it possible to store easily breakable articles that are susceptible to drop impact without requiring space in terms of area.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the rectangular-tube-shaped fragile article hopper, a plurality of downwardly inclined fixed sliding plates in the rectangular cylinder are spirally stepped downward or clockwise or counterclockwise, and are mutually displaced. The largest step between them is installed so that the easily breakable article will not be damaged even if it falls, and the easily breakable article to be thrown in is fixed down when the step down from the fixed slide plate is filled. When dropping to the side of the board, the internal space is eventually filled with easily breakable articles without any gaps, and no breakage occurs in the easily breakable articles, and when storing easily breakable articles that are vulnerable to drop impact Eliminates the need for area space.

In the hopper for an easily breakable article having a cylindrical shape according to claim 8, a spiral slideway from the upper part to the lower part along the inner periphery of the cylindrical wall has a lower side wall at an inner peripheral edge thereof. It is provided, and the easily breakable articles that are thrown in fall across the low side wall when the slideway is filled,
Finally, the internal space is filled with the easily breakable article without any gap without causing breakage of the easily breakable article. This also makes it possible to store easily breakable articles that are vulnerable to drop impact without requiring space in terms of area.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a waste glass bottle hopper according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the hopper.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the hopper.

FIG. 4 is a partially broken perspective view of the hopper.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line [5]-[5] in FIG. 3, showing the operation of the hopper together with FIG.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a partially broken perspective view of a waste glass bottle hopper according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a waste glass bottle hopper according to a third embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Waste glass bottle hopper of Example 1 2 Waste glass bottle hopper of Example 2 3 Waste glass bottle hopper of Example 3 10 Main body 11 Wall surface 12 Wall surface 13 Wall surface 14 Wall surface 16 Bottom plate 21 Movable slide plate 22 Movable slide plate 31 Rotation Shaft 33a Lever 33b Lever 34a Coil spring 34b Coil spring 37a Lock member 37b Lock member G Waste glass bottle

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A hopper for an easily breakable article having an upright prismatic main body, wherein a plurality of movable slide plates having an area occupying substantially half or more of a cross section of the main body when projected onto a horizontal plane are provided. The rotating shafts provided at the edges of the main body are alternately placed on the opposing wall surfaces of the main body, are pivotally supported, and are urged by a spring in a direction to flip up around the rotating shafts. The front end of the movable slide plate, which is the upper stage, is locked from the front end of the movable slide plate, which is the upper stage, to the movable slide plate, which is the lower stage. The fragile article is set to a height that does not break even if it falls, and the easily breakable article to be thrown in is sequentially dropped on the plurality of movable slide plates and stored.
Any one of the movable slide plates is filled with a downward drop and the easily breakable article is placed on the movable slide plate to increase the load. When the slide plate is pivoted downward to a substantially vertical position, the easily breakable article thrown in from above is not damaged, and the easily breakable article hopper is accommodated without any gap in the internal space. . 2. A bottom plate is provided on a downward slope in a direction opposite to a downward slope of the movable slide plate through a step which is not damaged even when the easily breakable article falls below the lowermost slide plate. The hopper for easily breakable articles according to claim 1. 3. The spring is a coil spring having one end fixed to an outer surface of the main body, wherein the rotating shaft of the movable slide plate is supported by a wall surface of the main body, and is integrally formed on an outer surface of the main body. The hopper for an easily breakable article according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the hopper is connected to the other end of the coil spring via a lever that is formed. 4. The hopper for easily breakable articles according to claim 1, wherein the movable sliding plate and the bottom plate are provided with a rubber lining for reducing a drop impact. 5. A hopper for an easily breakable article having an upright rectangular tube-shaped main body, wherein when projected onto a horizontal plane, the first section occupying a quarter surface obtained by dividing a horizontal cross section of the main body into four in the vertical and horizontal directions.
A fixed sliding plate is provided downwardly from one wall surface of the main body along an adjacent wall surface, and subsequently, the first fixed member is separated from the adjacent wall surface through a step that is not damaged even if the easily breakable article falls. The second fixed slide plate similar to the slide plate is the first fixed slide plate.
The downward direction of the fixed slide plate is provided at a similar downward inclination in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the downward inclination, and in the same manner, a plurality of fixed slide plates are provided in a spiral staircase from above to below in the main body. The input easily breakable article is stored by sequentially dropping the plurality of fixed slide plates, but when any of the fixed slide plates is filled with the downward step by the breakable article, The easily breakable article is dropped from the fixed slide plate to the side and spreads, so that the easily breakable article thrown in from the top is not damaged and is housed without any gap in the internal space. A hopper for easily breakable articles. 6. The bottom plate is inclined downward in a direction opposite to the downward inclination of the lowermost movable slide plate through a step which is not damaged even if the easily breakable article falls below the lowermost fixed slide plate. The hopper for an easily breakable article according to claim 5, wherein a hopper is provided. 7. The hopper for easily breakable articles according to claim 5, wherein the fixed sliding plate and the bottom plate are provided with a rubber lining to reduce a drop impact. 8. A hopper for an easily breakable article having an upright cylindrical main body, wherein a spiral slideway along an inner peripheral surface is provided inside the main body except for an axial portion thereof.
The slideway is provided with a side wall on its inner peripheral side to prevent the slideway from falling to the side, and the easily breakable article to be thrown is accommodated by sliding down the slideway. At the place where the slideway is being filled by the breakable article, the easily breakable article drops from the slideway to the side beyond the side wall and spreads, thereby allowing the easily breakable article to be thrown in from above. A hopper for an easily breakable article, wherein the article is accommodated in the internal space without a gap without being damaged. 9. The easily breakable article according to claim 8, further comprising a bottom plate inclined downward to one side through a step where the easily breakable article falls and is not damaged below a lowermost end of the slideway. For hopper. 10. The hopper for easily breakable articles according to claim 8, wherein at least the bottom plate of the slideway and the bottom plate is provided with a rubber lining to reduce a drop impact.