Apparatus for separating and transferring flat unit loads

US6042102A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Raschke · Pliening, DE
• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H5/12
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for separating and transferring flat unit loads such as newspapers, periodicals and other publications is disclosed. The apparatus has a means for accepting a stack of unit loads and for offering the unit loads one-by-one at a fetching position. A drum is arranged rotatable about a longitudinal axis and has a perimeter surface adjacent the fetching position. The drum has at least one suction opening formed in the perimeter surface for seizing the next available unit load from the stack at the fetching position and for holding the unit load to the drum perimeter surface as the drum rotates to an ejection position. A conveyor means is disposed adjacent the ejection position for receiving the separated unit load from the drum and for transporting the unit load away. The apparatus is also suitable for separating and transferring unpackaged newspapers, periodicals, other publications and the like.