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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1982
Edmund G Dennis, Belle Terre, NY (US);
C Edward Brandmaier, Centerport, NY (US);
Cashin Systems Corp., Hauppauge, NY (US);
Abstract
A cardboard sheet dispenser is incorporated in a bacon slicing machine line that is operable to group slices in shingled fashion and into segregated batches of predetermined weight. The dispenser directs a cardboard sheet in synchronization with the movement of the batches so that individual batches are placed on a sheet and thereafter transferred to subsequent packaging stations. The dispenser includes a hopper for receiving vertically stacked cardboard sheets and includes a base having a plurality of strippers serving to support the stack of sheets while assuring that only one sheet at a time is removed from the hopper. A pick-off assembly operates to remove the lowermost sheet from the hopper and transfer it to the nip of a roller assembly. The pick-off assembly includes a first piston-cylinder assembly that assumes a vertical position below the hopper so that suction cups at the free end of the piston of this assembly is adapted to engage and secure the lowermost sheet in the hopper upon extension of this piston and upon retraction thereof lower this sheet to a lowered position. A second piston-cylinder assembly is rigidly connected to the first piston-cylinder assembly and is adapted to be actuated between a retracted position at which both piston-cylinder assemblies are in the vertical position and an extended position. A cam follower bar extending laterally from the free end of the piston of the second piston-cylinder assembly travels in a pair of complementary cam slots such that when the piston of the second piston-cylinder assembly is extended, the cam follower bar follows the slots to cause the piston-cylinder assemblies to assume a tilted position.