Blank feeding machine
AssigneeRengo Kabushiki Kaisha (Rengo Co., Ltd.)
InventorMasateru Tokuno
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Abstract
A blank feeding machine having a pivoting frame provided with kickers to push up the blanks stacked thereon. It requires only a minimum amount of labor to feed the blanks e.g. to the hopper of a printer even if they are stacked in bundles with face up and down alternately. The machine also includes a mechanism for automatically discharging the blanks from the pivoting frame onto a belt conveyor if they are stacked in uniform orientation.
Claims8
A blank feeding machine delivering blanks in bundles on a belt conveyor to a feed hopper of a printer comprising a truck movable on at least one pair of rails, a pivoting frame mounted to said truck in the rear thereof to be pivoted forward from its upright position by at least one driving means and provided with a table at the bottom thereof to stack blanks thereon, at least one kicker vertically movably mounted on said pivoting frame for pushing up the stack of blanks intermittently according to the rate at which blanks are fed to the feed hopper, when said pivoting frame is in its pivoted position, a first belt conveyor provided in front of said truck to extend forward therefrom with the rear end thereof adjacent to the front end of said pivoting frame in its pivoted position for delivering the blanks transferred in bundles from said pivoting frame with one side thereof held by the worker, and a second belt conveyor mounted to the pivoting frame to be disposed outside of the boundary between the front end of the pivoting frame in its pivoted position and the rear end of said first belt conveyor for carrying the bundles of blanks forward with only the outer side thereof supported thereon when they are transferred from the pivoting frame to said first belt conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.