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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1977
Filed:
May. 27, 1976
Gisbert Burkhardt, Reichenau, DT;
Dieter Hofmann, Constance, DT;
Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H., Frankfurt am Main, DT;
Abstract
A conveyor-distributor apparatus for handling flat rectangular items, has a horizontal conveyor channel; a support face defining the conveyor channel floor on which the lower edges of the substantially upright oriented items are guided; and a plurality of consecutive deflector switches arranged along the conveying path of the conveyor channel. A guiding device is connected to each deflector switch for changing the orientation of the deflected items from the position they assumed in the conveyor channel to a flat-lying, stacking position. Each guiding device is constituted by a slide that comprises a curved deflecting surface having a first surface portion which adjoins the associated deflector switch and which is in alignment with the plane of the items as they emerge from the deflector switch subsequent to their deflection thereby. The deflecting surface further has a second surface portion which is bounded by a lower terminal edge and which is inclined to the horizontal at an acute angle having an apex oriented towards the location of another, upstream-positioned slide as viewed in the conveying direction of the conveyor channel. Each slide further has a curved supporting surface intersecting the curved deflecting surface substantially at a right angle. The supporting surface has a first surface portion adjoining the support face of the conveyor channel and a second surface portion substantially following the drop curve of the items on the slide for effecting a continuous contact with the lower edge of the items as they move down on the slide.