Machine for automatically stacking plate groups for storage batteries

A machine for stacking plate groups for storage battery comprising

• (a) means for feeding separator material in a vertical direction from above by a pair of transferring rollers,
• (b) means disposed below the feeding means for cutting said separator material into separators from a continuous roll with a roll cutter having at least one cutting edge,
• (c) plate separating and delivering means disposed below the cutting means for separating and delivering one-by-one plates in a lowermost step from a hopper containing the plates with a separating plate so as to intersect at right angles with the separator transferred vertically from the transferring rollers, whereby the separator is two-folded about a plate and is cut off to predetermined dimensions with the delivered plate, said plate separating means being positioned so as deliver a plate covered with a separator to a first conveyor line
• (d) separator sealing means disposed behind the plate separating and delivering means for sealing the separator covering the plate on the sides,
• (e) a transferring element supported adjacent the separator sealing means for transferring the plate covered with the separator, from said first conveyor line to a second conveyor line, said transferring element comprising chain conveyors and laterally moving elements, said laterally movable elements being movable laterally with respect to said conveyor lines,
• (f) plate unit composing means disposed behind the transferring element wherein a line for transferring a plate of a different pole from a third conveyor line is provided in parallel with said laterally moving elements so that the covered plate may be transferred to said second conveyor line to be overlapped with the plate of the different pole to form a plate unit, said line for transferring a plate of a different pole being movable in an opposite direction to the direction of movement of said transferring element
• (g) plate block composing means and along said second conveyor disposed behind the plate unit composing means for laminating a predetermined number of plate units to be a block, and
• (h) conveying means disposed behind the plate block composing means for conveying said block to the next step.