Apparatus for organizing and arranging bundles into stacks
US4041853A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 17, 1975 |
| Grant date | Aug 16, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 17, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S414/105
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for organizing and arranging bundles, preferably bundles of folded or unfolded corrugated boxes or blanks, into stacks which include a plurality of layers. The apparatus includes a vertical conveyor for supplying bundles to a loading station, at which one or more operators or mechanical arms are located, which function to remove the bundles for the loading station and to position them in a desired pattern on a horizontally movable support to form a layer. After a complete layer is formed, the support is removed from beneath the layer so that the layer of bundles is deposited on a stack-forming device which includes a vertically movable platform which is incrementally actuated downwardly each time another layer is deposited thereon to form the stack. The formed stack is then discharged from the stack-forming device and straps are applied thereto. Actuating means are provided for removing the support from beneath each formed layer and for lowering the stack-forming device after the stack is formed. The output of the actuating means is supplied to a programmer which in turn regulates the speed of the vertical conveyor to control the rate of supply of bundles t…
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