Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding – Separators
Patent
1992-07-10
1993-12-28
Schacher, Richard A.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding
Separators
271267, B65H 322
Patent
active
052732681
ABSTRACT:
A device for grasping a sheet member includes a support unit, a pair of grasping units having sharp pawls, respectively, and supported by the support unit rotatably about parallel pivot axes, respectively, and a pivotally rotating unit for rotating the grasping units to move the pawls away from each other to bite the sheet member, thereby grasping the sheet member. The device is supported by a movable base through a universal joint to an apparatus for supplying the sheet member from a pallet to a conveyor. The apparatus includes a transfer unit for transferring the grasping device grasping the sheet member, a guide roller extending in the width direction of the sheet member and capable of contacting the lower surface of the sheet member, a moving unit for moving the guide roller contacting the lower surface of the sheet member from the proximity of the conveyor to a position directly above the pallet, and at least one urging roller for urging the sheet member transferred by the transfer unit against the conveyor.
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Bridgestone Corporation
Schacher Richard A,.
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