Glass sheet feed system
AssigneeBottero S.p.A.
InventorsMario Balbi, Enrico Boggero
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Abstract
A system for feeding glass sheets to a processing line for processing the sheets has a sheet pickup station; a number of movable carriages which are moved into the pickup station and each support one or more packs of sheets positioned substantially on edge; a movable loading machine for removing the sheets off the carriages and transferring them to the processing line; a store for housing the carriages with respective packs of sheets; and a supply station for restocking the store and which is separate from the pickup station.
Claims3
1) A system for feeding glass sheets to a sheet processing line, the system comprising a sheet pickup station;
- a number of carriages which are moved into said pickup station, and each support at least one pack of sheets positioned substantially on edge;
- a loading machine which moves, in a first straight direction, between said pickup station, where it removes one sheet at a time from said carriages, and said processing line, where it releases the sheet onto said processing line;
- a sheet store;
- and guide means for guiding said carriages, in respective second straight directions perpendicular to said first straight direction, between said pickup station and said store;
- the system being characterized by also comprising a supply station for restocking said store, and which is separate from said pickup station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.