Continuous inspection packing equipment

Claim 1

A continuous inspection packing equipment having an automatic product inspection line (60) comprising a first conveyor (61) consisting of multiple holding blocks (62) having concave grooves (63) and carrying freely elongatable two-stage type of pipes (10) consisting of larger-diameter pipe members (11) and smaller-diameter pipe members (12) in a condition set in said concave grooves (63), first and second compressors (67, 68) arranged beside said first conveyor (61) and different in force for compressing one of the both pipe members (11, 12), a detecting mechanism (70) for judging normal and defective products by detecting positions of the tips of one of the both pipe members (11, 12) of freely elongatable two-stage type of pipes (10) having passed beside said first and second compressors (67, 68), a defective product removing mechanism operated upon de­tection of a defective product by said detecting me­chanism (70) and a lack part replenish device (80) for supplying inspected freely elongatable two-stage type of pipes (10) into holding blocks (62) not containing freely elongatable two-stage type of pipes (10), and an auto­matic packing line (90) comprising a second conveyor (91) consisting of holding blocks (92) connected to one another, first and second film feeding means for supplying lower and upper films (93, 98) to said second conveyor, and a sealer (101, 102), and functioning to supply freely elongatable two-stage type of pipes (10) to the holding blocks (92) of said second conveyor (91) from said automatic product inspection line (60) at a location between said first film feeding means and said second film feeding means, cover said pipes (10) with said upper film (98) and then weld said films (93, 98) to each other with said sealer (101, 102).