Sheet stripping device

A stripping device comprising in combination:

• conveyor means for transporting a sheet structure along a first plane in a predetermined direction, where said sheet structure has a major section connected intermittently to a minor section of lesser surface area extending along said major section in a direction substantially parallel to said first direction;
• a projection structure with a forward face angled through said plane at a predetermined angle substantially less than 90.degree. to the plane and having sides thereof extending in a substantially upright plane substantially parallel to said first direction and positioned at a predetermined laterally located position relative to said conveyor means adapted such that when said conveyor means adapted such that when said conveyor means transports said sheet structure in said first direction, said projection structure is positioned such that the forward face intercepts a leading edge of said minor section to result in a stripping of the minor section from the major section and adapted such that the major section is thereafter conveyed continually by said conveyor means to a predetermined point beyond said projection structure;
• and pincher surfaces in opposing relationship to one-another positioned above and below said first plane and adapted such that during transport of said sheet structure, said pincher surfaces anchor said major section of the sheet structure during movement of said minor section against said projection structure, said projection structure being laterally adjacent said pincher surfaces and adapted such that stripping away of the minor section from the major section is facilitated thereby;
• a forward face of said projection structure is shaped to direct stripped material in a second predetermined direction.