Pallet handling apparatus and method

Details Pallet handling apparatus and method Pallet handling apparatus and method

1982-11-22

1984-07-31

Spar, Robert J.

Material or article handling

Movable rack having superposed, charge-supporting elements,...

Rack moved vertically by elevating means

414112, 414786, B65G 5902

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044627467

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for handling pallets is provided. The apparatus includes a tiltable pallet stack receiver for receiving an upright stack of pallets at a pallet stack station and for tilting the stack downwardly to a generally horizontal position, a mechanism for laterally displacing the stack from a position in endwise alignment with the pallet stack station to one in endwise alignment with a pallet sorting station which is laterally offset from the pallet stack station, and a pallet indexer for displacing the horizontally disposed stack in an endwise direction toward the pallet sorting station as pallets are removed from an end of the stack. The invention thus provides a pallet sorting capability which is faster and involves less manual labor than necessary with conventional sorting systems.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3521763 (1970-07-01), Heide et al.
patent: 4022332 (1977-05-01), Freakes et al.
patent: 4037734 (1977-07-01), Erdman
patent: 4178122 (1979-12-01), Abrahamson
patent: 4249847 (1981-02-01), Tokuno
Smetco brochure, "A New Complete Pallet Repair System", Mar. 5, 1975.

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