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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
May. 08, 1985
Rene Fluck, Schleitheim, CH;
SIG Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for cyclically separating articles in groups, includes a guide floor on which the articles are forwarded in a direction of advance in an edgewise standing orientation to form an article stack of undetermined length thereon; a pickup gate arranged for geing abutted by a leading article in the stack; a separating member arranged for being introduced between two articles of the stack at a predetermined distance from the pickup gate upstream thereof as viewed in the direction of advance for separating a group of articles of predetermined length from the article stack; a driving mechanism for cyclically introducing the separating member between two articles of the stack and moving the pickup gate and the separating member together in a stroke of predetermined length for shifting away the article group situated between the pickup gate and the separating member from the article stack of undetermined length; a first setting mechanism for varying the distance of the separating member from the pickup gate to vary the length of the article groups and a second setting mechanism for altering the position of the guide floor parallel to the direction of advance of the articles.