AUTOMATIC ARTICLE SUPPLIER

PURPOSE:To obtain a small sized supplier of high performance suitable for multi-kind small-quantity production, by fully automatically performing with judgment to some degree the supply from a stocker to an automatic machine, storage from an automatic storehouse to the stocker and a control in the stocker or the like. CONSTITUTION:A supplier provides a handling device 6 delivering a work box between a stocker 1 and an automatic machine, handling device 7 charging the stocker 1 with a work box finishing to be charged with an article and taking out an empty work box, device 8 serving both for supplying and step- separating a step-piled work box and a device 9 serving both for discharging and steppiling the empty work box. And the supplier, storing the information of the article in the stocker 1 to perform supervision and reference and fetching the information of the carry-in article and parts request of the automatic machine or the like to control each handling device 6, 7 displays status of the existing article in the stocker. The small sized automatic article supplier of high performance suitable for multi-kind small-quantity production can be obtained because the above operation and control can be fully automatically performed further with judgment to some degree.