Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1993-04-28
1995-05-30
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
1984603, 271197, 4147938, 414791, B65G 5704
Patent
active
054196779
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for interleaving a carrier sheet with sliced food products, such as bacon strips, has a supply conveyor for continuously conveying products with spacings that may be random or non-uniform, a delivery section to a drop-off point, a detector for detecting the position of each product from the drop-off point, a sheet supply source, an indexing conveyor for moving the carrier sheet to receive products at the drop-off point in timed relation to arrival of the products, a counter for counting down the arrival of each product to the drop-off point, and a programmable controller for controlling the advance of the carrier sheet to the drop-off point and incrementally thereafter to receive successive products in timed relation thereon. The preferred embodiment draws and cuts each carrier sheet from a supply paper roll. The indexing conveyor has a perforated belt and holds the carrier sheet on the belt by vacuum pressure. Multiple interleaver lines can be set up in side to side relation. A stacking mechanism has a reciprocating, telescoping conveyor for depositing successive product-laden sheets on a stack, and an elevator for adjusting the height of the stack below the telescoping conveyor.
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Huppert Michael S.
Morse Gregory A.
Sommer Evelyn M.
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