Abstract:
A stacking aid for stacking goods on a loading aid, such as a pallet, has wall parts (10, 11, 12) surrounding a stack of goods stacked on the loading aid (3), it being possible to alter the height of at least one (10) of the wall parts and to remove the stacking aid from the loading aid again after completion of the goods-stacking procedure. A method for stacking goods (2) on a loading aid, such as in particular a pallet, with the aid of the stacking aid comprises the steps of: (a) placing in readiness a stacking aid (1), which surrounds a stack of goods stacked on the loading aid (3), (b) loading the loading aid (3) with goods (2) with the aid of the stacking aid (1), and (c) lifting the loading aid (3) relative to the stacking aid (1), the stack of goods lifted out of the stacking aid (1) being at the same time continuously wrapped with a stabilising means (31) for stabilisation. The invention makes it possible in an efficient manner to secure the stack of goods on the pallet during the commissioning through the removable stacking aid and during the subsequent transportation of the goods by means of the stabilising means, for instance a film.
Abstract:
A storage device for card-shaped data carriers has at least one storage unit with a magazine support and a magazine mounted on the magazine support. The storage unit has a support bottom on which data carriers are stacked and has an upper end with a dispensing slot. An individualization roller is positioned at the upper end for removing the uppermost data carrier from the storage unit through the dispensing slot. A transport device for transporting the data carrier exiting from the dispensing slot to a processing unit of a dispenser is provided. A carriage is mounted in the magazine support and vertically slidable in the magazine support. The support bottom is fastened to the carriage. A motor is provided that drives an endless, flexible pulling element connected to the motor, and the motor and pulling element drive the carriage. Two guide pulleys are connected to opposite ends of the magazine support and the pulling element is guided about the guide pulleys. The carriage has two freely rotating drive rollers and a differential gear connecting the drive rollers. The drive rollers rotate in the same direction and have identical diameters. The drive rollers are driven by the pulling element for driving the carriage.
Abstract:
A hand cart for carrying sheets and other stacked objects has a motorized self-leveling platform, so the things being carried are kept at a constant elevation convenient to a worker, whether things are being added or removed from the platform. For carrying sheets, such as moving sheets of paper in document processing operations, the cart upright and platform are tilted, and the upright has opposing wings extending at 90 degree. Thus, sheets tend to move against the wings and their alignment is either obtained or maintained. When the cart is tilted to move it about, the cart design and load positioning system desirably keep the upward force which a worker must apply to the cart handle at low levels.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for stacking zippered plastic bags maintains the top bag of the stack in a generally horizontal relationship by controlling the position of a stacking table which supports the stack. At least a portion of the stacking table which supports the stack is gradually pivoted in the area of the bag zippers as a stack forms. Preferably, the stacking table is controlled to also maintain the top of the stack at a generally constant level while the stack is forming.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an intermediate storage system mounted adjacent to a bending furnace in a windshield production line, said system comprising a first intermediate storage (1) for pairs of flat glass sheets and a second intermediate storage (2) for pairs of bent glass sheets. Each intermediate storage includes a number of separate storage racks (3) for pairs of glass sheets and a carrier trolley (5, 9) for pairs of glass sheets. A carrier trolley (5) in first storage (1) is controlled for carrying pairs of glass sheets one at a time from storage racks (3) to the proximity of the loading end of a bending furnace (11) and carrier trolley (9) in second storage (2) is controlled for carrying pairs of bent glass sheets from the proximity of the end of bending furnace (11) onto the storage racks (3) of second storage (2).
Abstract:
A conveying system comprising two conveyors interconnected for adjustment relative to each other and an arrangement of rollers some of which convey and during a set period others serve as drag against the stock items carried thereon to obtain single item feeding.
Abstract:
A destacking apparatus for stacked pallets has at the destacking station not only a raisable and lowerable destacking platform but at least a raisable and lowerable receiving platform upstream of the destacking platform so that, when the destacking platform is brought to its lowest position, a stacked pallet from the receiving platform can be transferred onto it. Because the receiving platform can receive the stacked pallets at a higher location or level, the time previously required for moving the stacked platform down from this higher level to a position in which destacking can begin from the top of the stack is eliminated and the entire operation is expedited.
Abstract:
A device and method for holding and delivering a load of particulate material such as wood blocks, wood chips--dry or moist--, and briquettes. A main bin has an open upper end, closed side walls, and a closed bottom wall. A pair of drive shafts are journaled across and in the side walls of the main bin, with a motor therefor. A flexible belt has one end secured to a first such drive shaft on one side of the bin and another end secured to a second such drive shaft on the opposite side of the bin. A continuous chain driven by the motor drives said drive shafts, and there is an idler associated with the chain and one of the drive shafts for reversing the direction of rotation of that drive shaft, so that rotation of the two drive shafts slackens the belt enabling loading. The belt, when tightened and raised, drops the load into said main bin. A pair of side wall members may be secured to the main bin on each side of the flexible belt, and a delivery device is supported by the main bin and extends from one wall of the bin to and through the opposite wall at the lower end of the bin.
Abstract:
A machine which handles tea bags includes an elevator platform having a horizontal support surface adapted to support a stack of tea bags; a mechanism which moves the elevator platform from a first upper platform loading position to a second lower platform discharge position; a lead out member located at the discharge position; a pusher which pushes the stacks of tea bags from the platform when it is in the lower discharge position; a horizontal lead out surface on the lead out member; an inclined chamfer surface on the lead out member, the chamfer surface having a free edge; an inclined chamfer surface on the underside of the platform; and the platform and the lead out member being positioned and arranged so that when the platform is in the discharge position, the chamfer surfaces of the lead out member and the platform are in face to face overlappping contact, with the chamfer surface of the platform positioned above the chamfer surface of the lead out member and the horizontal support surface of the platform and the horizontal surface of the lead out member are co-planar and with the free edge of the chamfer surface on the lead out member being covered by the chamber surface on the underside of the platform so that the stack of tea bags can be smoothly pushed by the pusher means from the platform onto and over the horizontal surface of the lead out member.
Abstract:
A materials handling device, such as a palletizer and/or depalletizer, which may be adapted to operate in either mode, has a mechanism, for feeding pallets to be loaded and ejecting pallets which have been unloaded, at the top of the device. The pallets are introduced into a bay and placed onto an elevator and sequentially indexed upwards a distance equal to each layer to be unloaded or downward a distance equal to each layer to be loaded. The pallets in the machine are indexed to a standard position. Ejection and introduction of loaded and unloaded pallets is automatically sequenced.