Apparatus for loading cartons onto pallets

US4976584A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventor

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 1989
• Grant date: Dec 11, 1990
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G61/00
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To transfer cartons (12) arriving on delivery conveyors (13, 14) onto pallets (10, 11), a pivoting conveyor (15) (robot) is used, and this takes up the cartons (12) by a suction head (17) and, by pivoting and moving up and down, feeds them to the pallet (10, 11). To reduce the lifting movements of an articulated arm (16) which are thereby necessary, by platforms (30, 31) movable up and down the cartons (12) are conveyed upwards or downwards to the articulated arm (16), so that the lifting movements of the latter are reduced correspondingly.