CHIP PARTS AUTOMATICALLY SUPPLEMENTING APPARATUS

PURPOSE: To provide an automatic supplementing apparatus capable of automatically supplementing chip parts in a store space when the stock of the parts in this space of an arranging and feeding mechanism is below a fixed level. CONSTITUTION: An arranging and feeding mechanism 2 has a space 12 to store plural chip parts and outlet hole to arrange them housed in the space 12 one by one and discharge them. When a detecting sensor detects that the amount of the chip parts in the space 12 is below a reference level, the parts are supplemented via a supplement route 56 into the space 12 from a chip tank 55 disposed at an upper part of the mechanism 2. In the midway of this route a valve 57 is provided which opens the route 56 in response to the sensor and closes it when specified number of the chip parts are supplemented into the space 12.