Magazine for flat articles, such as folding boxes lying flat

US5116303A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Dietrich · Yorktown Heights, US
• Eberhard Krieger · Waiblingen, DE
• Siegfried Weber · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 1990
• Grant date: May 26, 1992
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2301/33214
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A magazine for flat articles, in particular folding boxes lying flat, including a horizontal conveyor apparatus for receiving a supply stack of folded boxes and a vertical receiving chute from which the folding boxes can be withdrawn in succession and delivered to a conveyor in an open condition. In order to keep the pressure on the lowermost folding boxes in the receiving chute constant, the receiving chute is refilled with folding boxes as needed from the conveyor apparatus, so that the stack height in the receiving chute remains constant. The transfer of folding boxes from the supply stack on the conveyor apparatus into the receiving chute is effected via a gap, through which the horizontally delivered holding boxes, resting obliquely, are purposefully tipped via rollers or via a support podium into the receiving chute at the transition from the conveyor apparatus.