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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
William P Cathers, Allison Park, PA (US);
Assignee:
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
225 965 ; 83110 ; 83732 ; 198461 ;
Abstract
A conveyor for separating and aligning glass sheets moving along a sheet movement path includes a plurality of cylindrical rolls skewed relative to the movement path to displace the advancing sheets toward a side of the conveyor. At the side of the conveyor the sheets are aligned by an endless belt rotating through a path parallel to the sheet movement path. Each successive roll in the direction of sheet advancement has increasing peripheral surface rotational speed to separate the advancing sheets.