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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2001
Andreas Vollman, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Andreas Horeld, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Bernhard Mokler, Märkgröningen, DE;
LTG Mailander GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device for feeding flat objects overlapping in slats, particularly metal sheets, at least to a front edge stopper of a processing machine, particularly a tin printing machine or a tin-plate varnishing machine, with a first conveyor on which the objects lie. It is provided for the first conveyor ( ) to exhibit a constant speed or a speed that changes in cycles (v ) and for a second conveyor ( ) to be arranged between the first conveyor ( ) and the front edge stopper ( ), with said second conveyor being designed as a continuously rotating run ( ) which takes over each frontmost object ( ′) from the first conveyor ( ) at a speed corresponding (v ) to that of the first conveyor ( ) and slows it down to a lesser speed (v ), and at this delayed state, feeds it to the front edge stopper ( ) through subsequent sliding of the object on a base ( ) or through delivery to a device ( ), with the device ( ) leading the object to rest on the front edge stopper ( ), or that the run ( ) slows down the object ( ′) until it comes to a standstill, as a result of which it is led to the front edge stopper ( ).