Apparatus and process for separating and removing bundles of sheets
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Corporation
InventorJohn M. Hathaway
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Abstract
Apparatus and processes for receiving sheets from a sheet stacker, separating them into bundles, and removing the bundles from the discharge area of the sheet stacking apparatus. The apparatus includes a frame, a rotatable receiving means mounted on the frame, means for separating the bundles of sheets being received, and means for rotating the rotatable receiving means. The receiving means may include a plurality of sheet receiving chambers, each chamber having an elevator which may be lowered in the respective chamber. The apparatus also has means for raising each elevator. The separating means accumulates the sheets being received from the sheet stacker while the receiving means is being rotated.
Claims31
Apparatus for receiving sheets, and separating and removing of bundles of stacked sheets from the discharge area of sheet stacking apparatus, said separating and removing apparatus comprising:
- (a) a frame;
- (b) rotatable receiving means mounted on said frame and having a plurality of sheet receiving chambers;
- (c) means, adjacent said rotatable receiving means, for separating one said bundle from sheets being received;
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- (d) means for rotating said rotatable receiving means.
A process for receiving sheets, and separating and removing bundles of sheets from the discharge area of sheet stacking apparatus, said process comprising:
- (a) receiving a plurality of sheets, from a sheet stacking apparatus, and thereby creating a stack in a first sheet receiving chamber, on a rotatable receiving means having a plurality of sheet-receiving chambers;
- (b) interposing separator means between said stacking apparatus and said stack, thereby defining a bundle of said sheets from said stack;
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- (c) rotating said rotatable receiving means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.