Apparatus and method for handling sheet material

Details Apparatus and method for handling sheet material Apparatus and method for handling sheet material

1981-02-26

1983-08-30

Reeves, Robert B.

Material or article handling

Hoist or elevator and endless or rotary carrier

294 67BC, B66C 128, C03B 2302

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044008414

ABSTRACT:
A sheet handling apparatus and method for transferring horizontally oriented sheet articles from one location to another in an automated production line facility. The apparatus includes a vertically reciprocal elevator mounted on a horizontally reciprocal carriage and provided with a sheet pick-up head including grippers engageable with and disengageable from the opposed marginal edges of one or more superimposed sheet articles. The apparatus is especially suited for precisely placing paired sheets of glass on bending molds advanced on a conveyor system beneath the pick-up head. The molds are located and locked in position on the conveyor system in vertical registry with the pick-up head during transfer of the sheets from the head to the mold.

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IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 29, No. 9, Feb. 1979.

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