SPHERICAL VEGETABLE GRIP DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To positively grip spherical vegetables by supporting a pair of grip bodies provided on the tip side with grip parts recessed in partial spherical shape, in such a way as to be oscillatingly opened/closed, and providing fluid pressure cylinders for oscillating both grip bodies onto the opening side against energizing force of energizing means for energizing to oscillate both grip bodies onto the closing side. SOLUTION: Packing equipment for packing lettus, as spherical vegetables, is provided with a robot hand (grip device) for gripping to take out the lettus fed into a specified takeout position A and feeding it into a lettus receiving part of a packing device 2. The robot hand is provided with a grip driving part 11 for oscillating to open/close a pair of grip bodies 16 made of elastic resin plates and provided with grip parts 16A recessed in partial spherical shape, on the tip side, and attitude holding mechanism 17 for holding the attitude of the grip bodies 16. The grip driving part 11 is composed of a pair of springs 32 for energizing to oscillate both grip bodies 16 onto the closing side, and a pair of mutually retrorse air cylinders 33 for oscillating both grip bodies onto the opening side against the energizing force.