Blank stacking apparatus
US5259609A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 14, 1992 |
| Grant date | Nov 9, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 14, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H2701/176
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for stacking, from above, thin, flat articles such as blanks of cardboard or like material, of variable shapes and formats, these blanks being supplied, upstream, on a conveyor and being successively deposited on one another on the upper laying plane of a stacking-jolting table. This apparatus is characterized in that the laying plane of the stacking-jolting table is constituted, on the one hand, by a large continuous principal surface, and, on the other hand, by an auxiliary bearing surface located at the upstream end of the table, and a device is provided for vertically displacing the auxiliary bearing surface with respect to the principal surface.
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