Abstract:
A device for separating a batch of sheets from a pile of sheets and introducing the batch into a conveyor of a machine designed for processing the sheets characterized by a frame having a movable stop member mounted thereon, a unit for moving a pile of sheets so that the end of the pile is adjacent the movable stop, a unit which cooperates with the movable stop and separates a batch of sheets from the one end of the pile and another unit for moving the separated batch of sheets in a second direction parallel to the plane of the sheets in the pile to pass through an opening provided by moving the movable stop to enable introduction of the batch into a conveyor of a machine.
Abstract:
A sheet magazine supports a stack of limp flexible sheets. The magazine has a bottom with a slot formed therethrough and spaced opposite first and second ends with an end feed gateway at the first end. A mechanical sheet separating and segregating device splits off and segregates each successive bottom-most lift of the stack from the remainder thereof and urges same through the gateway. The sheet separating and segregating device includes a stabber-separator movable toward the first end to support the stack at a selected distance above the bottom of the magazine and a pin extender movable toward the first end into the stack at a selected distance above the stabber-separator for segregating a bottom-most lift of the stack by being interposed in the stack above said lift. The stabber-separator is movable toward the second end of the bottom to a position spaced from the stack, thereby permitting the lift to drop to the bottom, and is movable back toward the first end directly under the pin extender. A lift extracting device includes a pusher movably mounted on the bottom and movable toward the first end to push the lift under the stabber-separator through the gateway. The pin extender is then movable toward the second end of the bottom to a position spaced from the stack whereby the stack again rests on the stabber-separator.
Abstract:
There is disclosed an apparatus for separating sheets at the bottom of a stack comprising two contrarotating suction drum assemblies (14,15:17) and a suction pipe (18) extending between the two assemblies. In order to ensure that the edges of the lowermost sheet are fully separated from the sheet above before the sheet is extracted from the bottom of the stack, one assembly has a central suction drum (14) having suction outlets (25) and the other assembly (17) has suction outlets (29) to draw the edges of the lowermost sheet in their central regions downwardly from the sheet above. Two pairs of contrarotating double ended fingers (32) are mounted on either side of the drum assemblies to enter the stack above the lowermost sheet where the central region has been drawn downwardly and to move along the edges of the stack towards the ends of the stack to separate the edges of the lowermost sheet from the sheet above. The drum assembly (15) has two outer suction drums (15) which rotate at twice the speed of the central drum section ( 14) and have suction ports (33) activated when the fingers (32) have separated the edges of the lowermost sheet to draw the lowermost sheet out of the bottom of the stack.
Abstract:
Single sheets are separated from a stack of sheets arranged in a housing having one open end in which at least one pair of separating rollers is disposed with the lower end of the stack resting in the nip thereof. One roller of each pair has a surface with a greater coefficient of friction relative to the sheet surface than that of the other roller and is rotated in a direction relative to the stack opposite to the other roller so that an outermost sheet is caused to slide from the remainder of the stack by frictional engagement of the one roller while the stack remainder is held from the oppositely rotating roller. Separation is greatly facilitated by the provision of hooks which support the lower edge of the remainder of the stack during separation and positively assist withdrawal of the stack remainder.
Abstract:
A device for picking up semirigid sheet-like elements from a magazine comprises a rotating body supported by a horizontal and fixed shaft supporting a radial cam and at least one arm oscillating in a plane normal to the shaft and serving as a radial guide for a gripping member and gears effective to displace the gripping member between a position spaced from the magazine and a position near to it for picking up sheet-like elements.
Abstract:
A device for removing a film sheet from a stack of such sheets present in a cassette. The device comprises a pin that can be moved into engagement with the uppermost film sheet of the stack in a marginal area thereof, and thereafter is moved in a direction substantially parallel to the plane of said sheet, whereby said sheet is bulged and thus made ready for engagement by means for removing it from the stack.
Abstract:
An apparatus for destacking a stack of flexible flat structures, especially unfolded or folded sheets or printed products, comprising a stack support composed of revolving driven rolls and contact rails disposed above the stack support for defining a stack support surface. A separation device is arranged below the stack support and revolvingly driven in cycle or rhythm with the arriving rolls in order to continuously downwardly remove an edge of the momentarily lowermost flat structure between the arriving rolls. A conveyor device engages below the stack support for the removal of the printed products which have arrived beneath the stack support. The stack support surface is arranged to be at an inclination or directed obliquely at one of its corners towards the direction of movement of the rolls. The separation device comprises a single pre-separation element and guide means in order to displace the separation element at the region of said corner of the stack support surface from the top towards the bottom to thereafter remove such in the revolving direction out of the region of the stack support surface. The conveyor device possesses an endless, continuously driven conveyor element.
Abstract:
The edges of the upper portion of a stack of sheets are driven horizontally into the high friction periphery of a rotating roll which raises the edge portions from the stack in succession. The rotating roll is then pivoted about an external axis until it is supportingly disposed under the raised batch. A second roll or roller is then lowered onto the batch so that the raised edge portion is confined between it and the lower rotating roll. A nip is thereby formed and the entire batch of sheets is then driven therethrough for use downstream.
Abstract:
A primer container for automatically feeding primer caps into a hand operated tool for reloading spent shells and cartridges. The container comprises a substantially cylindrical body having a first cap fixedly attached to one end thereof and a second cap rotatably mounted to the other end thereof. A storage magazine member disposed within the container includes a plurality of mutually parallel, elongated, cylindrical receptacles spaced radially equidistantly from the central axis of the body. Each receptacle includes cylindrical side walls adapted to receive and retain therein a plurality of primer caps stacked in an end-to-end fashion. The second closure cap includes a centrally apertured dispensing spout for selected rotational registry with the storage member receptacles and is adapted for gravitationally transmitting the primer caps from the container to a work station of the shell reloading device. The container has a removable closure for handling and shipping, which closure is removed and replaced by said second closure cap.
Abstract:
A sheet reversing or turning arrangement for sheets which are superimposed in a stack and having differing front and rear sides, and which are adapted to be pulled off sideways in a sequential manner through the intermediary of gripper elements engaging the leading edge of the respective uppermost sheet of the stack. A second set of gripper elements is provided along the rear edge of the stack, which is movable from a first operative position above the rear edge of the stack into a second operative position rearwardly of the rear edge while carrying along the uppermost sheet through engagement with the rear edge thereof, and which is then movable from the second position back into the first position without the sheet, and including a third set of gripper elements movable from a first operative position rearwardly of the rear edge of the stack in a trajectory towards a second operative position above the front edge of the stack while carrying along the sheet received from the second set of gripper elements and engaged along the rear edge thereof, and which is then movable back into its first operative position without the sheet.