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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francesco Canziani, San-Macario-VA, IT;
Renato Tacchi, Lonate Pozzolo-VA, IT;
Assignee:
Sandvik AB, Sandviken, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4147989 ; 414737 ;
Abstract
A destacker for small flat packages such as audio or video cassettes includes a gripper for gripping a vertically oriented package of a horizontal stack of such packages, and transferring the package to a releasing location while simultaneously repositioning the package into a horizontal orientation. The gripper is mounted to a pair of pivoted links. An actuator causes the links to rotate such that the gripper is transferred while being initially rotated in a first direction and finally being rotated in an opposite direction.