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AssigneeGodiva Chocolatier, Inc.
InventorsThierry Beressey, Willy De Boeck, Nicholas Louis Rozzi
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A destacker for automatically destacking a plurality of vertically stacked articles that is particularly useful in destacking magnetic moulds used in the chocolate manufacturing industry. Each article comprises at least one slanted notch. The destacker includes at least one hammer having a blade that moves from a retracted position to an extracted position, wherein at the extracted position the blade engages a gap formed by the slanted notch between the bottommost article and the article located above the bottommost article to release the bottommost article from the plurality of stacked articles. The bottommost article then drops onto a conveyor to be transported to the production line. The destacker further includes oppositely disposed pair of mould carriers and oppositely disposed pair of mould lockers that assist the destacker to feed the stack of moulds in a downward direction.
A system for destacking articles comprising:
A system for destacking articles, the system comprising:
A destacker for destacking a plurality of stacked articles, each article comprises at least one slanted notch, the destacker comprising:
A method for destacking a plurality of stacked articles, each article comprising a top wall, bottom edge, and at least one side wall extending from the top wall to the bottom edge, said side wall containing at least one slanted notch extending at a first angle from said at least one side wall, wherein at least one of said slanted notches forms a gap between a first article located at the bottom of the plurality of stacked articles and a second article located above the first article, the method comprising:
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