Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1991-11-13
1994-08-02
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
4147891, 4147896, 4147902, 4147904, B65G 4726
Patent
active
053339851
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for accumulating blanks into stacks and transferring the stacks into a welder hopper of a can former/welder includes an arrangement of side-by-side blank accumulating pockets at an output of a slitter. The side-by-side arrangement is movable to adjacent an indexing and storage station and a pusher to push the stacks from the side-by-side arrangement to the indexing and storage station is provided. The indexing and storage station moves in an indexed fashion to align each stack individually with a single stack receiving station, where single stacks are received from the indexing and storage station. The stack in the single stack receiving station is blocked, lifted and rotated for engagement by an overhead gripper of a gantry assembly which moves the stack to the welder hopper when needed.
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Franz James A.
Schmeisser Heinz
Huppert Michael S.
Morse Gregory A.
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