Double downstacker with side-shifting conveyor
AssigneeGreene Line Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsKenneth E. Hoke, Larry L. Schaper, George R. Cunningham
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Abstract
An apparatus for stacking two separate lines of cut articles exiting from a cutter equipped with two separate cutting edges, a first and second stacking platform, and an upper and lower conveyor for moving the cut shingled articles from the cutter to the platforms. A portion of the upper conveyor is also reciprocable in the horizontal plane relative to the lower conveyor to allow easy access to the lower conveyor for normal maintenance and repair and for removal of jammed or defective articles.
Claims13
A double downstacker apparatus with a movable conveyor comprising:
- (a) input means for providing two separate lines of articles;
- (b) a first stacking platform for stacking the first line of articles;
- (c) a second stacking platform for stacking the second line of articles;
- (d) a first conveyor means for moving the first line of articles from said input means to said first stacking platform;
- (e) a second conveyor means mounted above said first conveyor means for moving the second line of articles from said input means to said second stacking platform;
- (f) and means engaged with said second conveyor means for laterally moving a portion of said second conveyor means relative to said first conveyor means to allow removal of defective articles from said first conveyor means.
A method for unjamming the lower conveyor of a double downstacker apparatus comprising:
- (a) laterally moving a portion of the upper conveyor of a double downstacker apparatus in the horizontal plane relative to the lower conveyor to allow access to the lower conveyor surface;
- (b) and removing the jammed article from the lower conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.