Method and apparatus for stacking strips holding securing elements

US4156335A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Karl M. Reich Maschinenfabrik GmbH

Inventors

• Hans Strobl · Leverkusen, DE
• Bernhard Grusa · Plochingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 12, 1978
• Grant date: May 29, 1979
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B35/56
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Strip sections holding securing elements such as nails or screws are stacked, for example, in cartons so that the nail heads or screw heads come to rest in alternate opposite directions. For this purpose the strips slide down an inclined guide chute in a given direction until the heads are held by support elements which are movable alternately and laterally outwardly substantially at right angles to said given direction. Thus, one support element still supports the heads while the other support is withdrawn from the holding position whereby the strips, as they fall downwardly, rotate alternately, through an angle of 90.degree. whereupon the strips are intercepted, for example, by a tiltable chute.