Apparatus for feeding rhinestones

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for feeding rhinestones. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for feeding rhinestones, which costs low with simple elements and structures and remarkably speeds work up with less possibility of operation errors. To this end, the apparatus for feeding rhinestones includes: a main body; a dispenser which is supported on the main body, includes a flat bottom surface and a discharging skirt, is driven to move the discharging skirt for discharging within a plane including the bottom surface along a tangential direction of the discharging skirt, and includes a guide groove on the bottom surface in an acute direction to a moving direction the discharging skirt from the discharging skirt, in which a width of the guide groove is larger than a diameter of the adhesive flat surface of the rhinestone and a depth of the guide groove is smaller than a height of the protruding end portion; a rhinestone feeder which presses and feeds the rhinestones toward the bottom surface of the dispenser; and a driver which drives the dispenser.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An apparatus for feeding rhinestones, each of which has an adhesive flat surface forming an adhesive surface and a protruding end portion formed at an opposite side to the adhesive flat surface, the apparatus comprising:
 a main body;   a dispenser which is supported on the main body, comprises a flat bottom surface and a discharging skirt, is driven to move the discharging skirt for discharging within a plane comprising the bottom surface along a tangential direction of the discharging skirt, and comprises a guide groove on the bottom surface in an acute direction to a moving direction the discharging skirt from the discharging skirt, in which a width of the guide groove is larger than a diameter of the adhesive flat surface of the rhinestone and a depth of the guide groove is smaller than a height of the protruding end portion;   a rhinestone feeder which presses and feeds the rhinestones toward the bottom surface of the dispenser; and   a driver which drives the dispenser.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus for feeding rhinestones according to  claim 1 , wherein the discharging skirt is circular, and the dispenser rotates with respects to a center axis of the discharging skirt. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus for feeding rhinestones according to  claim 1 , wherein the main body comprises a discharge preventing wall adjacent to the discharging skirt and preventing the rhinestones from being discharged, and the discharge preventing wall comprises at least one discharging portion for allowing the rhinestone to be discharged through the discharging skirt along the guide groove. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus for feeding rhinestones according to  claim 3 , wherein the discharging portion comprises a receiver to receive a rhinestone discharged from the dispenser. 
     
     
         5 . The apparatus for feeding rhinestones according to  claim 4 , wherein the receiver comprises a guide tube to guide the rhinestone to move down. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus for feeding rhinestones according to  claim 4 , wherein the receiver comprises a suction nozzle tube for catching the rhinestone from above, a compressor for sucking air through the suction nozzle tube, and a nozzle tube moving portion to move the suction nozzle tube.