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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1987
Hiroaki Masunaga, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Inoue, Osaka, JP;
Masaaki Sakamoto, Osaka, JP;
Norihiko Higashide, Osaka, JP;
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An automatic loading system includes an automatic loading apparatus for automatically loading, onto a pallet, a glass sheet product as it lies substantially horizontally and is delivered along a feed path to a terminal position of the feed path. The automatic loading apparatus has a suction mechanism for attracting the lower surface of the glass sheet product at the terminal position and for moving the glass sheet product to a loading position to load the glass sheet product onto the pallet. The automatic loading system also includes an apparatus for putting an interleaving sheet on an upper surface of the glass sheet product in the feed path. The interleaving sheet putting apparatus comprises a mechanism for moving an uppermost interleaving sheet of a stack of interleaving sheets over the glass sheet product, and a holder mechanism for holding the uppermost interleaving sheet against an upper surface of the glass sheet product. The pallet has at least a pair of spacers having spaced grooves defined therein for receiving the lower edges of the glass sheet products. The suction mechanism comprises detectors for detecting distances between the glass sheet product in the loading position and a glass product previously loaded on the pallet.