Apparatus for separating in groups a predetermined number of continuously fed flat workpieces overlapping in scale formation

US4183518A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Windmöller & Hölscher KG · DE

Inventors

• Friedrich Franz Brockmuller
• Richard Feldkamper · Lengerich, DE
• Erwin Meyer · Auckland, NZ

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 1977
• Grant date: Jan 15, 1980
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H29/66
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Overlapping sheet articles continuously arriving on a belt conveyor are separated into groups by brake bands which are intermittently pressed against respective rails disposed between the belts substantially flush with the conveying runs. The brake bands lie loosely on the sheet articles which pass thereunder unimpeded until they are to be temporarily halted, which is done by successively lowering a plurality of weights on the brake bands starting at the leading ends of the brake bands.