Title: Apparatus for stacking hanging plates

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a stack of plates from a series of plates which respectively hang from rods conveyed by a rod-conveyer along a predetermined path. A toothed conveyer receives the rods one after the other from the rod-conveyer and conveys the rods along a plate-turning path. A plate-turning cam structure engages each plate as each rod is conveyed along the plate-turning path for turning each plate from its substantially upright hanging attitude into a substantially horizontal attitude situated over a stack-forming table. As each plate moves beyond the plate-turning cam structure onto a stack at the table, each rod is received in a channel out of which each rod is pushed while being disengaged from the plate received at the stack which forms on the table.

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Inventors: Ahokas, Pentti (Santtio, SF)
Lallo, Matti (Rauma, SF)

Application Number: 675899
Filing Date: 1976-04-12
Publication_date: 1978-01-24
Assignee: Lonnstrom Oy (SF)
Primary Class(es): 414/790 198/464.4, 198/465.3, 198/465.4, 198/681, 414/794.4, 414/901
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US Patent Ref:

533443	Feb, 1895	Dejonge	118/231.
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2879885	Mar, 1959	Myers	198/681.
2894147	Jul, 1959	Stidwill	214/6.
2965214	Dec, 1960	Schlumpf et al.	198/473.
3046010	Jul, 1962	Schneider	271/219.
3319355	May, 1967	Lagnese	271/204.
3656603	Apr, 1972	Bontempi et al.	198/473.
3892168	Jul, 1975	Grobman	214/6.
3910424	Oct, 1975	Kawahara	214/6.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Paperner, L. J.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Steinberg & Blake