Abstract: Accumulator and stacker for sandwiched cookies, biscuits and like articles in which two side-by-side rows of sandwiched cookies are delivered from a conventional sandwiching machine and stacked one sandwich on top of another sandwich in an adjacent row and then accumulated into individual two high stacks with the stacks in tandem groups of two, three, four or more stacks at the in-feed conveyor of a conventional horizontal wrapping machine. The sandwiched cookies may be round, square and elongated rectangular cookies or of various similar shapes. The accumulator is between the discharge end of the sandwiching machine and the intake end of a wrapping machine, and provides a continuous high speed stacker supplying pre-selected stacked groups of sandwiches to the infeed conveyor of the wrapping machine in a continuous path.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 1981
Date of Patent:
November 8, 1983
Assignee:
Peters Machinery Co., Subsidiary of Katy Industries