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Clifton B McMurry

Ernest P Winski

Leonard Miaskoff

This invention pertains to handling of material on a supporting surface, preferably a pallet 74. It is addressed especially to the handling of thin-sectioned sheet material such as loose newspaper and magazine products in pallet loads. The invention provides material handling system and method for placing the material on a supporting surface by means of a palletizer 10 and removing it from that supporting surface by means of a depalletizer 180; and wherein the common element necessary to make the system function resides in the use of a special supporting member under each layer 178 of material in the load. Supporting members include spacing sheets 166 having novel characteristics in their top and bottom surfaces and novel pallets 216 having novel characteristics in their top surfaces.

Process for handling material

A palletizing apparatus usable for depositing material on an underlying surface, and particularly an underlying layer of compressible material. The apparatus comprises a frame, a plate means mounted on the frame for vertically and horizontally moving the plate means relative to the frame, the plate means including an upwardly facing surface adapted for carrying a stack of material and a downwardly facing surface having therein a plurality of recesses extending in the direction of the horizontal movement of the plate means. Projections mounted on the frame extend upwardly into the recesses for preventing a previously deposited layer of materials from moving with the plate means as the plate means is withdrawn from under the stack. The palletizer further comprises means for withdrawing the plate means from under the stack while an underlying layer of compressible material is under compression.

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Fond du Lac, WI, United States of America

Clifton B McMurry