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US 5,970,834 AGranted
Depalletizer and hopper feeder
AssigneeR. A. Pearson Company
InventorsGary M. Garofano, Richard Lile, Jerald McBride, James Peterson, Gregory Nowak
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system which includes a method and apparatus for the removal of carton bundles from where they are stacked, such as on pallets, re-positions the carton bundles relative to a carton holding structure such as a hopper, removes the restraining strap(s) from each bundle and feeds the bundle or cartons onto a hopper.
Claims6
A depalletizer for handling bundles of sheet-like products held in a stack encircled by at least one strap, comprising:
- a bundle supply mechanism operably mounted to move and position a bundle to a bundle transfer station;
- a bundle transporter having movable guides that open to receive the bundle from the bundle supply mechanism and close to support the bundle;
- the bundle transporter being movable to shift the location of the bundle to an operational station displaced from the bundle transfer station;
- a bundle positioning mechanism movably mounted relative to the movable guides for indexing an end of the bundle after the bundle is supported by the movable guides.
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