US 3,938,702 AGranted

Device for delivering objects of non-uniform thickness

AssigneeB.V. Arenco P.M.B.

InventorMarten Geert Aalpoel

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Abstract

A device for delivering one by one an essentially rectangular object of lenticular cross section from a pile of said objects having non-uniform, different thicknesses, said device comprising a plate supporting the pile, a stop surface standing on the supporting plate in front of one transverse edge of the objects and terminating at a given distance above the supporting plate to form a delivery gap and a catch operating in a direction towards the stop surface for conducting away the lowermost object through the gap in a direction of length wherein the improvement comprises one upright peripheral strip of the stop surface extending down to the supporting plate and at right angles to the stop surface, along the other peripheral strip thereof, a second stop surface is provided which is set back at the level of the gap over at least the width of one peripheral strip, the distance between the second stop surface and one peripheral strip being smaller than the width of the object; and a pressing member acting substantially at right angles to the catch pushes each time the lowermost object against the set-back surface.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A device for delivering objects of non-uniform thickness one by one from a pile of such objects, comprising in combination:

a generally horizontal plate for supporting the pile of objects;
first stop surface means disposed in upstanding relation to said plate for engaging one side of the pile of objects;
second stop means disposed in upstanding relation to said plate and at right angles to the first stop surface means, said second stop surface means presenting first abutment means for engaging a side of the pile of objects and second abutment means, offset from the first abutment means, for allowing the lowermost object in the pile to be displaced partially beneath the first abutment means;
said first stop surface means having a delivery gap adjacent said plate and extending from said second abutment means outwardly from beneath said first abutment means to a position allowing displacement of the lowermost object only when such lowermost object is displaced partially beneath said first abutment means and into engagement with said second abutment means;
pusher means reciprocable toward and away from said second stop surface means to displace a lowermost object against said second abutment means;
and
feed means spaced from said first stop surface means and aligned substantially centrally with respect to said delivery gap, said feed means engaging a lowermost, displaced object for delivering such lowermost object through said delivery gap.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 05/458,899Filed 8 Apr 1974
Priority: NL 730509211 Apr 1973
Granted: 17 Feb 1976
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B65H 3/24
Separating articles from piles: by pushers engaging the edges of the articles
B65H 1/06
Adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile: for separation from bottom of pile
B65H 3/063
Rollers or like rotary separators: separating from the bottom of pile
B65H 2301/42322
Of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles: from bottom of the pile