Battery grid feeder for a pasting machine

A grid guidance device for guiding battery grids to a battery pasting machine, the grid guidance device comprising:

• a platform carried by the battery pasting machine at a location that is upstream of a pasting orifice of the battery pasting machine, the platform receiving the battery grids thereover prior to pasting of the battery grids at the pasting orifice;
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• an assembly operably associated with the platform in order to adjust the position of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice of the battery pasting machine, the assembly comprising a first electric motor, a first shaft, a second electric motor, and a second shaft, wherein an advancement and retraction position of at least an exit end of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice is adjustable via rotation of the first shaft by the first electric motor, and a raising and lowering position of at least the exit end of the platform with respect to the pasting orifice is adjustable via rotation of the second shaft by the second electric motor.