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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1974
Daniel A Koppa, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Nabisco Inc., East Hanover, NJ (US);
Abstract
Large sheets of rigid cookie wafers carried by a first conveyor are longitudinally divided by a saw. The resulting small sheets are laterally spaced and each is fed between positioning guides onto a pair of edge support members positioned over a second conveyor extending at right angles to the first conveyor. Each support member is mounted on a pair of arms extending upwardly from a rotatable shaft passing beneath the second conveyor. The pair of shafts carrying each pair of edge support members are rotated simultaneously in opposite directions by a cam driven lever arrangement to separate the support members allowing the sheet supported thereby to drop upon the seond conveyor. Separate cams control each pair of shafts and the two sheets are dropped in sequence to provide an uninterrupted flow of evenly spaced sheets on the second conveyor.