Kfw Automation, Inc.

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Goss International Americas, Inc.

Joseph John Keane

Donato C Farole

Glenn Allen Nester

Mark W Ricker

Kurt D Schultz

A cable reel assembly system in which a teach pendant cable can be removably installed. An insert is positioned in alignment with an aperture in a central spool cylinder, and an adapter is mounted to the insert. A teach pendant cable can be removably connected to the adapter.

Cable reel system

A device is provided for transferring printed sheet material products including a gripper conveyor having a plurality of grippers for gripping a plurality of printed sheet material products, a sheet conveyor for receiving the plurality of products from the plurality of grippers in a lapped stream, and a plurality of fingers, each finger assigned to one of the plurality of grippers, each finger contacting a first side of one of the plurality of products when a second side of the plurality of products is in contact with the sheet conveyor. A method is also provided.

Custodial lapped stream mechanism

A stacking apparatus for stacking a plurality of flat articles on edge is provided that receives articles in an article receiver that includes a stop wall to receive the front edge of each article and stop horizontal motion of the article and a rotatable segmented roller for receiving the bottom edge of each article. The segmented roller is rotatable about a central axis of the cylinder and includes a planar surface, the planar surface receiving the bottom edge of each flat article when the planar surface is in a horizontal position. The segmented roller is rotatable from a stopped position wherein the planar surface is in the horizontal position to form a gap to receive the bottom edge of one article at a time to a rotating configuration wherein the cylindrical outer surface of the segmented roller drives the one article against a stacking conveyor bed.

Large envelope on-edge stacking conveyor

An apparatus for stacking articles on edge is provided which has a discharge magazine for stacking the articles face-to-face and on-edge. The magazine has an article edge receiver having a non-offset position and an offset position. The article edge receiver has a register wall for aligning the articles in the non-offset position and a segmented rotational offset disk for aligning the articles in the offset position. The disk has a cut out segment having a planar stop edge surface. The cut out segment is rotatable from an article receiving position to an article bypass position. When in the receiving position, the planar stop edge surface is at a right angle to the two faces of the article. When in the article bypass position, the segmented rotational offset disk allows the articles to bypass the segmented rotational disk.

Offset device for an on-edge stacking apparatus

A stacking apparatus for stacking flat articles on edge is provided where each article has a front perimeter edge and two faces and the stacking apparatus receives each flat article as it enters the stacking apparatus moving in a direction generally parallel to the face of each article. The stacking apparatus includes a discharge magazine for sequentially receiving and stacking the flat articles face-to-face in an on-edge stack. The discharge magazine includes an article inlet, a register wall wherein the front perimeter edge of each envelope contacts the register wall to align each front perimeter edge of each article as the articles enter said stack. The discharge magazine further includes an article face support member, wherein a face of one of the flat articles abuts the article face support member, and a segmented roller for receiving and aligning the flat articles for insertion into the on-edge stack. The segmented roller includes a rotatable segmented cylinder having a longitudinal central axis. The segmented cylinder is located adjacent the article inlet and has a planar surface thereon substantially parallel to the longitudinal central axis of the segmented cylinder. The planar surface in the segmented cylinder opens a gap between a prior article and the segmented roller, receives a single article and incrementally rotates to drive the article against a register wall, with the segmented roller continuing to rotate until the planar surface is rotated into position to open an additional gap between the stack and the segmented roller ready to receive the next article entering the article inlet.

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Telford, PA, United States of America

Joseph John Keane