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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2014
Böwe Systec Gmbh, Augsburg, DE;
Bernd Höpner, Augsburg, DE;
Ronald Celeste, Kühlenthal, DE;
Florian Hölzle, Augsburg, DE;
Harald Schempp, Augsburg, DE;
Bernd Michel, Lützelburg, DE;
Stephan Hauke, Augsburg, DE;
BÖWE SYSTEC GMBH, Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
A feeder for flat objects, particularly a supplement feeder for supplements, having a stack compartment for receiving objects in the form of a stack and a takeoff device for taking individual objects off the stack along a takeoff direction, wherein the takeoff device includes a conveying element and a gate, through which the objects taken off the stack are led individually by the conveying element. In order to be able to process different objects with properties differing from one another, particularly objects of different type and thickness, with the feeder in continuous operation without problems and without congestion and to provide a feeder for different objects that is as flexible as possible and that is capable of processing both thick and thin objects without lasting deformations while largely avoiding takeoff errors, the gate has a first gate device and a second gate device. Thereby an object taken off the stack can be brought into engagement either with the first gate device or with the second gate device and led through the gate.