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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1989
Steven N Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Asq. Boats, Inc., Tustin, CA (US);
Abstract
A pair of opposed teeth combs hold a first plurality of waters at a first upper location. A lift platform on a machine engageably holds and lifts a second plurality into position to be interleaved into the spaces of the first wafer group. The combs are pivotably mounted such that a skewed water in the group of wafers on one platform comes into contact with a comb and causes the combs to pivot slightly upwardly, or a skewed wafer creates a separation-diminishing force on separated portions of a platform. Moveable suspensions floatably position corners of the separated platform parts relative to each other; and these platform parts react away from an error-initiated contact. Transmitter/receiver units are positioned in optical alignment and a skewed water or a piece of foreign matter causes any one of a plurality of light beams to be broken so that error corrective action is achieved.