Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1995-08-31
1997-02-11
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
414416, 53247, 294 991, B65G 6900, B65B 500
Patent
active
056013965
ABSTRACT:
A method and a device for manipulating substantially similar flat articles each having two main surfaces and at least one pair of opposite edge portions delimiting the main surfaces, the flat articles being arranged in a stack such that consecutive ones of their main surfaces contact one another, outermost ones of the flat articles thereby forming two faces of the stack and consecutive superimposed edge portions of the flat articles thereby forming opposite edge surfaces of the stack. The method involves: providing a first stabilizing device and a second stabilizing device, each of the stabilizing devices being effective for stabilizing the stack in a freely selectable spatial orientation whereby at least two opposite portions of the opposite edge surfaces are accessible when the stack is being stabilized in either of the stabilizing means; providing a pair of clamping jaws having substantially flat and elastically deformable clamping surfaces facing each other and having a length greater than a distance between the two faces of the stack; positioning the clamping surfaces parallel to the at least two opposite portions when the stack is being stabilized by the first stabilizing device; moving the clamping jaws toward each other into contact with the at least two opposite portions after the step of positioning thereby clamping the stack between the clamping jaws whereby the clamping surfaces are deformed; moving the clamping jaws together with the stack to the second stabilizing device; and releasing the stack by moving the clamping jaws away from each other.
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Bucci David A.
Ferag AG
Hess Douglas
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