Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Unstacking apparatus
Patent
1997-09-22
2000-04-18
Hess, Douglas
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Unstacking apparatus
4147989, 414773, 414779, 414782, B65G 5900, B25J 1100
Patent
active
060507713
ABSTRACT:
An accumulator for handling pallets in a pallet workstation provides a continuous through-put of panels through the pallet workstation. The accumulator includes a base, which is positioned between a pallet stack holder and a conveyor, and an articulating member supported by the base. The articulating member moves between a first position to receive a stack of pallets from the pallet stack holder and a second position to engage at least one of the pallets to move the pallet along the base to the conveyor. In this manner, the return fill cycle of the pallet stack holder is removed as a bottleneck in the pallet workstation. The accumulator can accommodate a wide range of pallet to pallet variation without affecting its reliability and, moreover, significantly increase the pallet sortation and inspection process.
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Product brochure for Industrial Resources of Michigan, Inc. (4 Pages).
Hess Douglas
Industrial Resources of Michigan
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