Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Removes intersupporting article from row
Patent
1991-12-23
1994-11-01
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Removes intersupporting article from row
198530, 198539, 271126, 271150, B65H 506
Patent
active
053603168
ABSTRACT:
A flats singulation apparatus includes a input buffer section having a substantially horizontal ramp which is adapted to support thereon a stack of flats mailpieces on edge. The buffer section includes a moving belt and ram plate for moving the stack of flat pieces toward the front end of the ramp. A transfer section is at the end of the ramp and is adapted to remove the flat pieces substantially one at a time from the ramp and drop them downwardly. The transfer section includes a plurality of edge rollers extending across the end of the ramp and adapted to move the flat pieces from the stack, and a ledge plate extending downwardly from the edge rollers and having a horizontal ledge onto which the flat pieces drop. A pusher shelf is movable across the ledge to push the flat pieces off of the shelf. A separation section extends substantially horizontally across the end of the transfer section and includes means for moving the flat pieces away from the transfer section and separating flat pieces.
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Carrell Ross M.
Grice Kurt R.
O'Mara Kerry D.
Poux Christopher J.
Burke W. J.
David Sarnoff Research Center Inc.
Huppert Michael S.
Krizek Janice L.
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