Destacker

A destacker in which each one of a multiplicity of blank sheet materials piled one on another as a stack on a pallet disposed at a predetermined position inside the destacker is lifted by means of an attraction and transported by means of a conveyor to a machining apparatus, comprising:

• (a) a body frame including guide rails;
• (b) a stack receiving section and an empty pallet take-off section mounting, respectively, on both sides of the body frame in close proximity to the latter;
• (c) a stack resting pallet supporting frame means mounted below the inside of the body frame on movable members in such a manner as to be moved up and down freely along said guide rails;
• (d) a stack supporting fork means mounted on said movable members inside the body frame so as to be slidably moved independently of said stack resting pallet supporting frame means freely in the horizontal direction and movable up and down freely in the substantially vertically intermediate part of the body frame;
• (e) a sheet material attracting means mounted in the upper part of the body frame so as to be moved up and down freely;
• (f) a conveyor means with attracting means, said conveyor means being disposed at an upper portion of the body frame and extending substantially in the horizontal direction to the near end of the destacker;
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• (g) a rack and pinion mechanism mounted in vertical frame members of the body frame for elevating and lowering the supporting frame means and the supporting fork means.