Mac Engineering and Equipment Company, Inc.

Paul Korzenecki

Disclosed herein is apparatus for transporting battery plate grids which include a lug and which are transported from a magazine, which apparatus comprises a rail supporting a grid lug for movement of the grid lug along the rail from a pick-up station adjacent the magazine, through a transfer station, and to a delivery station, structure for supporting a suction cup for movement parallel to the rail and from a first position wherein the suction cup engages the grid lug at the pick-up station to a second position spaced from the first position and wherein the grid lug is located at the transfer station, for movement transversely to the rail from the second position to a third position, and thereafter for movement to the first position, a stripping member for stripping the grid lug from the suction cup in response to movement of the suction cup from the second position to the third position, and a valve connected to the suction cup for applying suction at the suction cup during movement of the suction cup from the first position to the second position so as thereby to transport the grid in common with movement of the suction cup from the pick-up station to the transfer station.

Vacuum operated transfer machine

Apparatus for manufacturing battery plates includes a mechanism for transferring battery plate panels between conveyors comprising a supply conveyor having a discharge end, a receiving conveyor having a receiving end located adjacent to and below the discharge end of the supply conveyor and including an endless member movable along a predetermined path and having thereon a battery plate drive lug adapted to engage a battery plate panel and thereby to cause transport of the battery plate panel along the receiving conveyor, and a drive for periodically advancing the endless member in the direction of conveyor advance and through a predetermined distance greater than the length of a battery plate panel, guides stationarily located adjacent the discharge end of the supply conveyor for guiding battery plate panel travel from the supply conveyor to the receiving conveyor, another drive for advancing the supply conveyor so as to deliver battery plate panels onto the guides for delivery to the receiving conveyor, and a sensor located in the area of battery plate receipt on the receiving conveyor for sensing the receipt of a battery plate panel on the receiving conveyor and, in response, actuating the endless member advancing drive to advance the endless member through the predetermined distance. The transferring mechanism may be used to prevent transfer of baked battery panels from an oven to a parting machine which severs the panels into battery plates.

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Benton Harbor, MI, United States of America

Paul Korzenecki