US 2006/0068981 A1Published application

Assembly device of plate elements for a processing machine

AssigneeBobst SA

InventorsGerard Coullery, Sacha Bourgeois

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Abstract

An assembly device for plate elements such as sheets of paper, cardboard, corrugated cardboard or similar material, for subsequent operation thereon in a processing machine. A feed station feeds elements to a positioning station for the plate elements. The positioning station for the plate elements includes a lower part equipped with first conveyors arranged side by side and an upper part including a second conveyor movable transversely with respect to the first conveyors. The second conveyor include grippers for the plate elements. The positioning station has a device for assembling the plate elements with respect to each other and an aligning device for longitudinally and transversely aligning the plate elements.

Claims11

Dependent claims

Assembly device for plate elements for a processing machine, the device comprising

a feed station operable for feeding the plate elements in a feed direction;
a positioning station operable for positioning the plate elements fed to the positioning station from the feed station;
the positioning station comprising a lower part equipped with first conveyors arranged side by side for conveying the plate elements in the feed direction and an upper part including a second conveyor which moves transversely with respect to the first conveyors, the second conveyor including a gripper operable to grip the plate elements;
an assembling device operable for assembling the plate elements with respect to each other;
and
an alignment device for longitudinally and transversely aligning the plate elements.

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Facts

Application: 11/230,006Filed 19 Sep 2005
Priority: CH 01574/0427 Sep 2004
Published: 30 Mar 2006
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Classification10 codes

B31B 50/042
Feeding sheets or blanks: using rolls, belts or chains
B31B 50/00
Making rigid or semi-rigid containers
B31B 50/024
Holders for feeding or positioning blanks or webs: rotating holders, e.g. star wheels, drums
B31B 50/062
From stacks: from the underside of a magazine

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