Riverwood International Corporation

John R Davis

Larry A Rasmussen

An assembling apparatus and process. The apparatus has a conveyor with a pair of parallel and elongated line guides fixed thereabove. Articles are placed onto the conveyor between the parallel line guides and a plurality of line stop mechanisms are provided to momentarily stop articles on the conveyor with respect to the parallel line guides. A plurality of supply magazines are provided for releasably storing elements to stack and assemble the articles. A stream of first articles is provided on the conveyor. The process further includes the steps of stopping the first articles on the horizontal work surface in alignment with each supply magazine and between the elongated line guides, transferring an element from each supply magazine onto the first articles and releasing the first articles for successive movement on the conveyor to each supply magazine.

Assembling apparatus and process

An article placing assembly having a pushing mechanism constructed and arranged to engage and move articles from an article stack. The assembly has opposing pivoting gate members which cooperate to hold and release successive articles. Movable clamps further cooperate to hold the article stack as successive articles are sequentially moved from the article stack. A process is set forth for separating and removing successive articles from an article stack in a magazine.

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Deerwood, MN, United States of America

John R Davis