Destacking apparatus

US6238175A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Gotz · Krefeld, DE
• Guido Schromges · Nettetal, DE
• Eggert DE WELDIGE · Neviges, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 1, 1999
• Grant date: May 29, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 1, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2406/342
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Foil sheets are removed from two stacks located one above the other on a stack rack by a swingable transfer assembly having a transfer platform along the sides of which guide rails carry a suction beam which, as the transfer assembly is swung up and down, can engage the uppermost foil sheet on one or the other stack. The suction beam draws the foil sheets onto the transfer platform where the foil sheet is oriented or aligned and from which the foil sheet is drawn onto a deposition station which can have belts carrying the laminate or in a direction orthogonal to the destacking transfer direction.