Machine loader
US4626159A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 21, 1984 |
| Grant date | Dec 2, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 21, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G47/52
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A loader for relatively long, flexible strips of sheet stock has a pair of parallel, generally vertically extending arms having vertically slotted upper ends. The lower ends of the arms are pivotally connected with vertically guided slide blocks. Each arm is pivotally connected intermediate its ends with a mechanism for moving the upper slotted ends of the arms in an elliptical path lying in a vertical plane. The elliptical path is such that, at one position therein, a strip of sheet stock slid off the top of a stack of such strips gravitates edgewise into the slots in said arms and, in another position, the strip in the slotted ends of the arms is deposited edgewise into vertical slots in the rails of a strip conveyor.
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