PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate an operation of changing the direction of intermediate products, and others, in the course of transfer between processes. SOLUTION: This feeder has conveying equipment which conveys intermediate products discharged from a tube making machine or the like, and has a support 21 which can support the intermediate products transferred by the equipment. Besides, an inverter 22 for inverting the intermediate products being supported and a turning machine 41 which changes the direction of the intermediate products by turning a conveyor 40 loaded with the intermediate products being transferred are incorporated in the conveying equipment.
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