Cover-feeder

Abstract

A cover-feeder for isolating the uppermost cover, in each case, of a flat stack which is continuously advanced, with lateral alignment and as far as a front-edge stop, in an imbricated formation on a transport belt belonging to a feed table, the cover-feeder having a series of separating suction devices belonging to a suction head, which suction head can be pivoted to and fro, for lifting the cover off the stack, and having a drawing-off arrangement for taking over the cover and transferring it to a forwarding conveyor. For the functionally reliable feeding of covers with flaps which are tucked in on one side or with flaps which are tucked in on both sides with enclosed data-carrier disks, the feed table (3) with the transport belt (2) is capable of being positioned obliquely via an adjusting arrangement (13-21), transversely to the direction of drawing-off of the covers (1), in such a way that the elevational line of that face of the covers (1) which is acted upon by the separating suction devices (7) runs parallel to the elevational line of the said separating suction devices (7).

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