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OwnerKnut Donner, Hans-Jurgen Hoppe +1inventors
InventorsKnut Donner, Hans-Jurgen Hoppe, Uwe Keil
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Successive palletized stacks of blanks in a layer of such stacks on a penetrable support of cardboard or the like are lifted off the support by a substantially horizontal plate- or blade-like implement which is caused to penetrate between the upper side of the support and the underside of a selected stack prior to lifting of the selected stack off the support for transfer onto a conveyor or into a blank converting machine, such as a cigarette packing machine. An optical or other suitable monitoring unit has one or more sensors which share the movements of the implement to detect, and to effect the generation of defect signals in response to the detection of, improper operation of the apparatus, such as the penetration of the implement through and subsequent lifting of a portion of the support with a selected stack.
A method of removing a commodity from an upper side of a support by means of an apparatus which includes a substantially horizontal lifting implement movable in a plurality of directions including downwardly toward, upwardly away from and along the upper side of the support, comprising the steps of introducing the implement between the commodity and the upper side of the support;
Apparatus for removing commodities from an upper side of a support, comprising a displacing unit including a substantially horizontal lifting implement and means for moving said implement in a plurality of directions including downwardly toward, upwardly away from and along the upper side of the support so that the implement can be introduced between the upper side of the support and a selected commodity at the upper side;
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