Apparatus for removing and transferring folding boxes

US6699165B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Krieger · Waiblingen, DE
• Klaus Stoeckel · Bad Marienberg, DE
• Joseph Weis · Schallstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 2, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/1766
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for removing folding box blanks from a folding box magazine and transferring them to between drivers of a conveyor system has a suction rotor with suction cups. The suction rotor is coupled to a four-bar mechanism, which erects the folding box blank along a stationary erecting shunt. By the engagement of the suction cups with a trailing side wall of the folding box blank, which wall stands vertically with reference to the feeding direction, and because of the disposition of the erecting shunt, a high output can be attained with the conveyor system driven incrementally, and folding box blanks can be processed whose front lower edge, in terms of the feeding direction, is located frontmost in the folding box magazine.