System with improved plate destacking

US10654666B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BD KIESTRA B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Michael Justin Lizzi · Shrewsbury, US
• Lukas Blaauw · Leeuwarden, NL
• Timothy Roy Hansen · Spring Grove, US
• Freerk H. Van Der Werff · De Westereen, NL
• Jurjen Sinnema · Joure, NL
• Jordan Brown · Schreiber, CA
• James Glen Burmaster · Schreiber, CA
• Rui Goncalves · Schreiber, CA
• Milenko Lukic · Schreiber, CA
• Nino Orucevic · Schreiber, CA
• Martin John Juritsch · Cambridge, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: May 13, 2016
• Grant date: May 19, 2020
• Expiry date: May 13, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/0425
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A separating system (1) comprises a housing (60) sized to receive a stack of articles having at least one first article (12) stacked on top of a second article (10). The system (1) also includes a lifter (20) movable into a contact position adjacent a surface (13) on the at least one first article (12). The lifter (20) is adapted to apply a lifting force to the surface (13) to lift at least a portion of the first article (12) above the contact position. An extractor (40) moves the second article (10) away from the stack of articles after the at least one first article (12) has been lifted above the contact position by the lifter (20). The housing (60) prevents the at least one first article (12) from moving with the second article (10) when the second article (10) is moved by the extractor (40) and guides the stack of articles downward after the second article (10) is moved away.