Patent attributes
A vacuum conveying apparatus capable of adhering and conveying a sticky material such as an intermediate process material for tire, and of immediately separating the same at a release position. A vacuum face (120) of the vacuum conveying apparatus (100) is provided with a multitude of vacuum adhesion orifices (122) communicating with a vacuum duct, in a region below the vacuum duct, and there are provided a plurality of press-down pins capable of protruding from the vacuum face (120) at a release position of the material as adhered for forcibly adhering the same material and a plurality of air nozzles (125). Further, a plurality of L-shaped vacuum adhesion grooves (127), (128) are disposed in regions at respective end parts of the vacuum face (120) other than the region below the vacuum duct, for adhering the tip of the material to be adhered which moved in a slightly zigzag direction.
