Installation for the sorting of plate material
AssigneeBystronic Maschinen AG
InventorErnst Zumstein
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Abstract
Plates, especially glass sheets, are fed for sorting to a putting-up machine wherein a glass sheet is set upright against a wall in front of which the glass sheet is held in a determined position by an air flow provided by a blower. One glass sheet at a time is withdrawn from this position and pulled into a sorting carriage by nippers. The sorting carriage is then displaced in front of a compartment carriage and the glass sheets contained in the sorting carriage are pushed out by the nippers and inserted into the corresponding compartment of a compartment carriage. The installation has a simple construction, works particularly efficiently and takes optimally care of the glass sheets.
Claims21
An installation for use in sorting glass plates, comprising:
- at least one compartment carriage comprising a plurality of compartments, each of said compartments having means for holding upright a single plate independently of a size of the plate;
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- a sorting carriage disposed for movement adjacent to said compartment carriage, said sorting carriage comprising at least one conveyor device having means for stepwise loading and unloading said plates into and out of said compartments of said compartment carriage.
An installation for use in sorting glass plates, comprising:
- a putting-up means for moving plates from a horizontal position into a vertical position, said putting-up means having a stand for holding the plates in a vertical position, said stand comprising a first wall and a means for producing an air flow between said first wall and the plates for cushioning the plates while maintaining the plates in said vertical position;
- a movable sorting carriage having a first plurality of sorting compartments, each sorting compartment having a first lateral supporting means for receiving a single plate from said putting-up means while maintaining said plates in a vertical position, and each of said sorting compartments comprising a conveyor means within said sorting compartment for loading and unloading plates from said sorting carriage;
- at least one compartment carriage comprising a second plurality of compartments, each of said second plurality of compartments having lateral supporting means for holding a single plate in a vertical position;
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- means for moving said sorting carriage between a loading position for transferring plates from said putting-up means to said first plurality of sorting compartments and unloading positions for transferring plates from said first plurality of sorting compartments into assigned compartments of said second plurality of compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.