Method of picking up stacked blanks

Details Method of picking up stacked blanks Method of picking up stacked blanks

1993-07-19

1995-05-02

Grant, William

Material or article handling

Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...

Unstacking apparatus

414783, 414786, 294907, 901 46, B25J 1308, B65G 6100

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ABSTRACT:
Stacks of blanks arranged in substantially orderly manner on a supporting surface are picked up successively by a powered pickup head for supply to a user machine; the pickup head presenting a pair of intercepting sensors for simultaneously intercepting a given reference edge of the stack when the head is set to the correct pickup position in relation to the stack; and the pickup head being set to the correct pickup position by means of a series of successive rotary and translational movements in the event only one of the sensors intercepts the reference edge of the stack.

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