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US 4,427,404 AGranted
Apparatus for stacking a tape of indefinite length in folded condition
AssigneeYoshida Kogyo K. K.
InventorYasuo Yamada
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Abstract
An apparatus for stacking a tape of indefinite length in folded condition by shaking the tape off into an accumulation box. When the height of the tape stacked goes above the top of the accumulation box, the top of the tape stack is pressed down to increase the compactness of the tape stack resulting in increase in the amount of tape stacked in the accumulation box.
Claims11
An apparatus for stacking a tape of indefinite length in folded condition comprising a machine base;
- frames secured on said base;
- a tape accumulation box mounted on said base and having lateral width-wise adjacent half spaces in said box;
- means supported on said frames above said box for traversing tape supplied from a source in the lateral width direction of said box;
- means for feeding the tape from said source into the apparatus;
- means supported on said frames above said box for shaking tape supplied from said tape feeding means off in a longitudinal depth direction of said box, laterally transverse to said width direction, to thereby stack the tape in folded condition in said box;
- said apparatus being characterized by means comprising a pair of pivotable pressure plates;
- means for pivoting said pressure plates to alternately intermittently press down on the top of said tape stack respectively in one half space and the other half space in said box while stacking of said tape occurs in the corresponding opposed half space when the height of the tape stack is above the top of said box to thereby gradually compress the tape stack in said box as said tape is being stacked.
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