Accumulator and stacker for sandwiched biscuits and the like
US4413462A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 12, 1981 |
| Grant date | Nov 8, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 12, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G2201/0205
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Accumulator and stacker for sandwiched cookies, biscuits and like articles in which two side-by-side rows of sandwiched cookies are delivered from a conventional sandwiching machine and stacked one sandwich on top of another sandwich in an adjacent row and then accumulated into individual two high stacks with the stacks in tandem groups of two, three, four or more stacks at the in-feed conveyor of a conventional horizontal wrapping machine. The sandwiched cookies may be round, square and elongated rectangular cookies or of various similar shapes. The accumulator is between the discharge end of the sandwiching machine and the intake end of a wrapping machine, and provides a continuous high speed stacker supplying pre-selected stacked groups of sandwiches to the infeed conveyor of the wrapping machine in a continuous path. The transitions from the sandwiching machine to the stacker and accumulator and the stacking and accumulating and feeding of the accumulated groups to the wrapping machine are smooth and gradual, making it possible to handle rectangular cookies in a cross-wise orientation without crumbling of the cookies or other damage thereto. This is all attained by a series of …
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