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Abstract

The apparatus comprises a reciprocal blade (30) having edges (31, 32) respectively set at a side of a forward end and at a side of a return end of reciprocation, and fixed blades (33, 34) having edges respectively set at the side of the forward end and the return end to cooperate with the edges at the forward end and the return end of the reciprocal blade. The reciprocal blade and the fixed blades cooperate with one another to cut a carrier tape with a shearing force. Partitioned carrier tape storage parts (37, 38) are disposed below respective shear parts formed between the edge at the forward end of the reciprocal blade and the corresponding edge of a fixed blade, and between the edge at the return end of the reciprocal blade and the corresponding edge of a fixed blade. When an emptied carrier tape (23), after a component is removed therefrom, is cut by the edge at the forward end or at the return end of the reciprocal blade and the edge of the fixed blade at the same side as the cutting edge of the reciprocal blade, the cut carrier tape is sorted and collected in the carrier tape storage parts in accordance with a kind of the carrier tape. The carrier tape can hence be sorted and collected for every kind thereof simply by changing a drive direction of the reciprocal blade in accordance with the kind of the carrier tape.

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