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AssigneesSchmalbach-Lubeca AG, Eberhard Halle
InventorsJurgen Muller, Eberhard Halle
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The stacking machine for making stacks of adjacent disk-like workpieces, e.g. metal covers, has a conveyor trough along which a column of workpieces being divided into stacks moves in its longitudinal direction until the stacks reach an unloading station. To maintain a space between successive stacks spherical spacers are inserted between the stacks into a gap formed there by the feed mechanism. A return trough inclined to the conveyor trough running from the unloading station to the feed mechanism is provided for feed back of the spherical spacers. This return trough may be mounted beside or below the conveyor trough. Only a very minimal construction expense is necessary to maintain the gap between the stacks and to feed back the spherical spacers which is effected because of the action of gravity alone.
In a stacking machine for making a stack of adjacent disk-like workpieces, especially metal covers, comprising a conveyor trough, on which said workpieces move in a column of said workpieces in the longitudinal direction of said column, a feed mechanism separating successive ones of said stacks to form a gap between each of said stacks and the following ones of said workpieces and an unloading station to which said stacks are fed prior to further processing, the improvement comprising a plurality of spherical spacers, each of which functions as a separating member between said successive stacks, a spacer inserting device for inserting each of said spherical spacers at a position on said conveyor trough where said gap between said successive stacks is produced by said feed mechanism and a return trough for said spherical spacers inclined to said conveyor trough extending to said position where said spherical spacers are fed back into said conveyor trough.
A stacking machine for making a stack of adjacent disk-like workpieces, especially metal covers, comprising:
A stacking machine for making a stack of adjacent disk-like workpieces, especially metal covers, comprising:
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