Side shifting carriage frame stick placer

Details Side shifting carriage frame stick placer Side shifting carriage frame stick placer

1995-03-23

1996-12-03

Merritt, Karen

Material or article handling

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

Stack forming apparatus

4147935, 414786, B65G 5726

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active

055802125

ABSTRACT:
A device for placing transversely aligned spacing-sticks onto a top surface of a lumber stack. The device having a longitudinally translatable conveyor with stick supporting hooks depending therefrom, the conveyor and the supporting hooks adapted to convey longitudinally the spacing-sticks extending transversely across the conveyor and the stack of lumber, having a stick transferring device for transferring the spacing-sticks from the stick supporting hooks to the upper surface of the lumber stack. The stick transferring device having a first and a second vertically translatable frame, the second vertically translatable frame selectively longitudinally translatable relative to the first vertically translatable frame. The second vertically translatable frame further having a capture device for capturing opposed ends of a spacing-stick being translated longitudinally by the conveyor, the capture device having an apparatus for releasing the opposed ends of the spacing-stick so as to deposit the spacing-stick onto the upper surface of the lumber stack when the first and second translatable frames are in a lowered position.

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