Stack for storing imbricated sheets

Details Stack for storing imbricated sheets Stack for storing imbricated sheets

1991-07-02

1994-05-17

Huppert, Michael S.

Special receptacle or package

For plate or sheet

206386, 206821, B65D 6900

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active

053119959

ABSTRACT:
Imbricated or overlapped copies of printed material are formed within a plurality of rows to form a single layer of a multi-layered and cubic-shaped stack. The stack allows for more efficient use of space within the storage of printed materials, and allows for easier and faster storing and retrieving of printed materials. The apparatus for forming the stack includes a plurality of in-feed conveyors which feed imbricated copy stream segments to a shuttle assembly upon a plurality of side-by-side rows. Once filled, the shuttle is positioned over a flat separator sheet and drops the plurality of rows onto the separator sheet, thereby forming a single layer. The layer is formed directly upon a stack which is formed upon a pallet. The separator sheet of the formed layer is supported by the copy streams which lie below on the preceding separator sheet. The resulting stack is cubic-shaped and includes a plurality of layers of a plurality of side-by-side rows of relatively flat and horizontal imbricated copy streams that run the full width of the pallet. A method of retrieving the copy streams from the stack to the conveyors uses the same apparatus for forming the stack, and is substantially the reverse of the method of forming the stack.

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