Method and device for stacking flat items
AssigneeGiesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
InventorFrank NEUDEL
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Abstract
A method and a device for stacking flat items in order to form stacks with a predefined number of flat items by means of a stacking wheel has the following steps: a) introducing flat items into compartments of the stacking wheel, b) transporting the flat items in the compartments of the stacking wheel, c) removing the flat items from the compartments of the stacking wheel and forming a stack with the predefined number of flat items, and d) removing the stack with the predefined number of flat items, wherein, after introduction of the predefined number of flat items into the compartments of the stacking wheel, no flat item is introduced into at least one subsequent compartment of the stacking wheel, and repeating steps a) through d).
Claims10
-9. (canceled)
A method for stacking flat items in order to form stacks with a predefined number of flat items by means of a stacking wheel, having the following steps:
- a) introducing flat items into compartments of the stacking wheel,
- b) transporting the flat items in the compartments of the stacking wheel,
- c) removing the flat items from the compartments of the stacking wheel and forming a stack with the predefined number of flat items, and
- d) removing the stack with the predefined number of flat items,
- wherein, after introduction of the predefined number of flat items into the compartments of the stacking wheel, no flat item is introduced into at least one subsequent compartment of the stacking wheel, and repeating steps a) through d).
A device for stacking flat items by means of a stacking wheel, for forming stacks with a predefined number of flat items, having a transport device for transporting the flat items into compartments of the stacking wheel, for which purpose the transport speed of the transport device and the rotational speed of the stacking wheel are synchronized, a stripper for removing the flat items from the compartments of the stacking wheel, a tray on which the flat items removed from the compartments of the stacking wheel are deposited and stacks with the predefined number of flat items are formed, and a stack transport device for removing, one stack at a time, a stack having the predefined number of flat items from the tray,
- wherein the transport device transports the predefined number of flat items into the compartments of the stacking wheel in each case, and in each case transports no flat items into at least one subsequent compartment of the stacking wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.