Separating apparatus for profiles

A separating device for processing profiles, said separating device comprising:

• a plurality of successive transverse conveyors each having respective supporting surfaces configured to support and convey the profiles in a conveying direction;
• a plurality of transfer devices supported between the transverse conveyors;
• the transfer devices each having a respective receptacle configured to receive one of the profiles;
• wherein the receptacles are each rotatably displaceable by a shaft between a pick-up position and a handover position, each of the receptacles having a respective driver surface that in the pick-up position engages under only one of said profiles;
• wherein the receptacles are each associated with a respective stop cam having a contour with stop points thereon configured to contact an associated one of the profiles;
• said stop points each being at a respective distance above a bearing surface of an adjacent one of the transverse conveyors when the stop cam is rotated to a respective corresponding angle of rotation of the stop cam;
• the stop cam being rotated into a rotational position selected based on a cross-sectional shape and size of the profiles to be separated such that a distance to a rear boundary edge on the bearing surface at a rear edge of a first of the profiles stopped at the contour of the stop cam is greater than or equal to a distance from the shaft to an outer end of the driver surface, and such that the driver surface in the pick-up position engages under and picks up only said first of the profiles without lifting any of said profiles rearward of the first of the profiles;
• and
• wherein the transverse conveyors are controlled as a function of stopping of the profiles by the stop cam in said rotational position selected for the cross-sectional shape and size of the profiles to be separated.