Apparatus for storing articles discharged at a high rate from production machines

In an apparatus for storing sacks, bags or like flat articles discharged at a high rate from a production machine, comprising a conveyor for feeding the articles to a station which combines them to form units containing larger numbers, the improvement comprising:

• two deflectors disposed on the conveyor behind one another in the conveying direction;
• a slower further conveyor below each of said two deflectors disposed at right-angles to the conveyor for feeding the articles;
• abutments displaced near each of said deflectors and extending parallel to the edges of each of the slower further conveyors;
• frames carrying rollers associated with and adjoining the downstream ends of the slower further conveyors and being pivotable about the axis of the roller closest the downstream end of the associated slower further conveyor;
• a machine stand;
• a winding core freely rotatably mounted in the machine stand;
• an endless driven conveyor belt supported by said frame and passing over the rollers and each frame in such manner that articles carried by the endless driven conveyor belt are applied to the winding core to form an overlapping band reel from the articles supplied in overlapping formation by the associated slower further conveyor, the endless driven conveyor belt driving the overlapping band reel;
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• a roller with holding tape, the holding tape extending beneath the articles guided on the frame with the leading end of the holding tape being secured on the winding core.