Patents Assigned to Maxson Automatic Machinery Company
  • Method of and apparatus for slowing sheets carried by high-speed conveyors before deposit on stationary platforms or low-speed conveyors
    Patent number: 4272069
    Abstract: Method and apparatus involving passing the leading edge of successive sheets carried by a high-speed conveyor over a slow-down region, and when the rear edge portion of the sheet reaches said region, grabbing the same to slow down the sheet to the desired speed and then releasing it and permitting the leading edge of the next sheet to travel freely at high speed over said region, thereby to enable controlled slow-down of the high-speed sheets for predetermined overlap on lower speed conveyors or stacking on platforms and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Maxson Automatic Machinery Company
    Inventor: Merton L. Matthews
  • Overlapped sheet-feeding machine
    Patent number: 3975012
    Abstract: Collision between the tail and head ends of successive singly fed sheets to be overlapped is avoided by ejecting air along a frame sloped downwardly away from the line of feed of the sheets. The tail end of a preceding sheet is thus drawn down out of the path of the head end of a succeeding sheet which is to overlap the preceding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: Maxson Automatic Machinery Company
    Inventor: Merton Louis Matthews