Supplying of cutouts
AssigneeC.E.R.M.E.X. Constructions Etudes et Recherches de Materiels pour I'Emballage d'Expedition
InventorAnthony GAUTHERON
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Abstract
Disclosed is a supply device for supplying cutouts to a machine from an inventory configured in several adjacent stacks of cutouts; the device includes a manipulator to transfer, by batch, the cutouts from the inventory to the machine. This device further includes a pressing unit to compress at least one stack that is adjacent to the one from which the manipulator removes cutouts. Also disclosed is a corresponding method.
Claims15
Supply device for supplying cutouts (1) to a machine from an inventory configured in several adjacent stacks (2) of cutouts (1), the device comprising a manipulator (3) to transfer, by batch, the cutouts (1) from the inventory to the machine,
- wherein the device further comprises a pressing means (4) to compress at least one stack (2) that is adjacent to the one from which the manipulator (3) removes cutouts (1).
Method for supplying cutouts (1) to a machine, from an inventory in the form of side-by-side stacks (2), of one or more layers, comprising a step consisting in grasping, using a manipulator (3), a batch of cutouts (1) from one of said stacks (2), then in placing it in the machine,
- the method further comprising a step consisting essentially in exerting a compressive force on a stack (2) that is located beside the one from which the batch is grasped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.