Device for transferring flat articles that differ in thickness to a packing machine

US5078260A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Bensberg · Düsseldorf, DE
• Hans Bömer · Erkrath, DE
• Hartmut Klapp · Kaarst, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 7, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/176
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for transferring continuously arriving articles, especially folded-bottom boxes lying with their ends that face each other along the direction of travel differing in thickness, to a packing machine, with a mechanism for distributing the articles onto two different conveyor mechanisms, one conveying the articles without rotating them to the upstream side of a merging mechanism and the other extending below the merging mechanism, through a 180.degree. curve, and back to its downstream side and a mechanism for alternately laying off flat articles, especially folded-bottom boxes, from each side of and onto a more or less horizontal merging mechanism that is especially intended for use with a device of the aforesaid type and that has two two-belt conveyor mechanisms that end at approximately the same level on each side of and outside the layoff area. The merging mechanism is a conveyor belt that branches off at an angle from the two conveyor mechanisms and extends to a packing machine. The mechanism for laying off the articles comprises curving the articles at an angle to the direction they are traveling in while they are being laid off.