To be laid out on the middle of the conveying path of suffering metrical

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the time required for balancing of weights and to improve treatment efficiency by providing the apparatus with at least a pair of supply feed rods for disengaging supply guide rails from the materials to be weighed after the arrival of the materials to be weighed at a position where the materials to be weighed transfer from these rails to a load bearing member. ;SOLUTION: Flowers and ornamental plants 77 are supplied by making their flow heads flush with each other onto a pair of the supply guide rails 16 at the upstream end of a supply conveyor 10 from a supply base 18. A pair of the supply feed rods 13 are moved together with follow-up weights 14 by the conveyor 10 and are engaged with the flowers and ornamental plants 77, by which the flowers and ornamental plants are transported. Cutting to a fixed length and dropping of leaves are executed during the course of the transportation. The supply guide rails 16 curve downward and the load bearing member 21 rises upward in the position when the supply guide rails 16 and the load bearing member 21 are brought in juxtaposition. Then, the flowers and ornamental plants 77 ride onto the load bearing member 21 in an about shockless state. At this time, the follow-up weights 14 turn backward from the progressing direction around the axes of the feed rods 13 and are disengaged from the flowers and ornamental plants 77, by which the flowers and ornamental plants 77 are transferred to the load bearing member 21. The shockless transfer and the rapid weight measurement are thus carried out.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO