Apparatus for loading sacks arranged in layers

US4171179A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Maschinenfabrik Mollers GmbH u. Co. · DE

Inventors

• Richard Birkenfeld · Beckum, DE
• Peter Aka · Beckum, DE
• Hellmuth Lange · Varel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 1978
• Grant date: Oct 16, 1979
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G67/08
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a loading apparatus, sacks are moved from a supply source along a conveyor to a device which arranges the sacks into a layer. From this device, the layer of sacks is moved over a double conveyor belt structure to a member which loads the layer directly onto a loading surface or onto a previously deposited layer of sacks on the loading surface. To provide continuous operation of the apparatus even when a loading surface is being replaced, the different parts of the apparatus can operate at variable speeds. The double conveyor belt structure which normally moves continuously supplying layers to the loading member, switches to a step-wise movement and stores a number of layers of sacks until the loading surface is replaced and ready to be loaded.