G. Siempelkamp Gmbh & Co.

Gottfried Konig

Jurgen Pesch

The loading apparatus for a platen press with at least one press stage used in making particleboard, especially chipboard and/or fiberboard, from a mat comprises a loading frame which has at least one loading stage and a belt tray insertable into the panel press in the loading stage and removable therefrom. The belt tray comprises a drive drum shaft with a drive drum mounted rigidly thereon, a delivery lip and a belt guided endlessly over the drive drum and the delivery lip. The conveyor when the belt tray returns from the press for delivery of the mat is driven by a rack fixed to the frame and an associated pinion on the drive drum shaft. The pinion is mounted losely on the drive drum shaft and is nonrotatably connected with one half of a clutch whose other half is nonrotatably connected with the drive drum shaft. The tray conveyor drive is shiftable into and out of engagement with the drum shaft and is reversible not only for receiving one of the mat segments but also with the rotation direction reversed for ejection of one of the mat segments into a recovery funnel positioned upstream of the loading frame in the loading direction. The clutch also is disengageable when the belt tray travels out on the loading frame and is engaged when the belt tray returns.

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Krefeld, Germany

Gottfried Konig