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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2001
Geoffrey J. Kerr, Geneva, CH;
Peter Wiedmann, Loveland, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenials, comprises: conveying means ( ) on the infeed side for the serial guidance of the supplied products ( ) in a main infeed direction ( ), conveying means ( ) on the outfeed side for the intermediate stacker units ( ), the compartments ( ) of which are charged with products ( ), to be led off in a main outfeed direction ( ) which is substantially perpendicular to the main infeed direction ( ), and a feed head ( ) for the products ( ) between the conveying means ( ) on the infeed side and on the outfeed side, which oscillates about a pivoting axis ( ) in the plane spanned by the main infeed direction ( ) and outfeed direction ( ) such that, during the oscillating motion in the main outfeed direction ( ), the end ( ) of the feed head ( ) that is turned towards the respective intermediate stacker unit ( ) is synchronous with the respective compartment ( ) of the intermediate stacker unit ( ) for a product ( ) to be transferred into this compartment ( ), and that, during the oscillating motion in the opposite direction, it orients itself toward the next compartment ( ).