Storage pallet arrangements for folded paper items
OwnerHans G. Faltininventor
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Abstract
A simple circular panel pallet has stored thereon a helical array of folded paper items and is rotated in opposite directions about its axis to respectively load and unload the items. By unloading a helical stack of items from the top, high-speed, low-friction operation permits attaining on stream unloading at press speeds of 60,000 units per hour. A tape is fed under the layer of shingled items in the helical array for access in unloading to guide the folded edge of the paper items into removal nips.
Claims9
A storage pallet assembly holding a plurality of folded paper items of at least two pages with a fold and open ends, comprising in combination, a bottom support member presenting only a horizontally disposed planar surface facing upwardly to receive said items in a stacked relationship thereupon and having a central vertical axis about which the items may be symmetrically disposed in a helical shingled array with the center of gravity along said axis so that the support member may be rotated for loading and unloading a stack of said items, and a stack of items in a shingled helical array on said support member symmetrically arrayed in a helix about said axis unsupported by any other member than said planar surface and having the open ends forward toward the lowermost end of the helical array and with fold trailing toward the upper end of the helical array and with each subsequent member being shingled upon the next preceding item with open ends overlapping the fold of the preceding item so that the topmost item has an accessible folded edge directed toward the uppermost end of the helical array for grasping to remove the shingled items individually or in shingled sequence from the top of the helical array where they are not weighted down by other items and thus can be unloaded faster with less inertia from said simplified storage pallet, wherein a tape member is wound helically under each one of the stored items stacked on said pallet, thereby providing means accessible from the top of the stack of items for lifting a leading edge of each item during removal from the stack.
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