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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1988
Rene Fluck, Schleitheim, CH;
SIG Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
A stacking apparatus for forming groups of face-to-face contacting flat items comprises a supply conveyor for advancing a column of serially arranged, flat-lying items; a stack-forming unit situated in a charging station and arranged for sequentially receiving the items from the supply conveyor; a plurality of stacking containers for acommodating a stack of the items; an arrangement for positioning an empty stacking container in the charging station; a stop arranged in the charging station for arresting each item in the stack-forming unit upon delivery by the supply conveyor; an intermittent drive for causing the stack-forming unit to cyclically deposit an item in the stacking container to form an article stack therein; and a sensor which generates a signal indicating a presence of an item to be deposited by the stack-forming unit and which is situated upstream of the stack-forming unit. The signal is applied to the intermittent drive for actuating the same. There are further provide a removal conveyor for moving away filled stacking containers from the stack-forming unit; and an arrangement for transferring a filled stacking container from the charging station to the removal conveyor.