Counter ejector
AssigneeMitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroto Imai
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Abstract
A device for counting and delivering sheets which accumulates a plurality of paste-applied and folded cardboard sheets, delivered by a paste-applying and folding machine, in a hopper for delivery to a next step in batches of a prescribed number of sheets. A counter is employed to count the individual sheets as they are being accumulated in the hopper for further processing. A plurality of ledges reciprocal in a vertical direction and projectable into the sheets being accumulated in the hopper divide the sheets into batches of the prescribed number as a function of the sheets having been counted. The batches are then removed from the hopper and delivered to a binding machine which is adapted to bind the cardboard sheets as a next step.
Claims7
An apparatus for accumulating and ejecting sheets of paste applied and folded cardboard comprising a hopper, means for accumulating a plurality of said sheets in said hopper, means for delivering said sheets in batches of a prescribed number from said hopper to a next step, a plurality of sheet engaging members, means for alternately reciprocating said engaging members in a vertical direction and alternately projecting said engaging members between said sheets in said hopper to successively project and divide said sheets into batches of said prescribed number and;
- said means for alternately reciprocating and projecting said engaging members being operable to press an underlying batch of sheets downwardly during a downward portion in the vertical direction taken by said engaging members when reciprocated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.