Depalletizers
AssigneeDepallorator Corporation Limited
InventorsMichael David Mabey, James Malcolm Foster
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Abstract
The invention relates to a depalletizer for transferring tiers of goods from a pallet onto a take-off surface. The depalletizer incorporates a vertically movable platform which may sequentially be brought into alignment first with a tier of goods and then with the take-off surface. Transfer means movable with the platform first push a tier of goods from a pallet onto the platform and then from the platform onto the take-off surface.
Claims5
A depalletiser for unloading tiers of goods from a pallet onto a take-off surface, said pallet having an uppermost tier, said depalletiser comprising vertical support means;
- a horizontal platform supported by said vertical support means;
- lift means for displacing said platform vertically up and down the support means so as to sequentially aline the platform with the uppermost tier on the pallet and with the take-off surface and transfer means movable with the platform for displacing tiers of goods from the pallet onto the platform and from the platform onto the take-off surface;
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- means movable with the platform for locating about the tier of goods immediately below the uppermost tier on the pallet so as to steady the stack of goods on the pallet during transfer of the uppermost tier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.