Abstract: An arrangement in a press feed line for picking up and conveying metal blanks at generally the same rate of speed they exit speed from the press, and automatically stacking them on a stacker. The stacker car has a rotatable base supporting a pallet, which in turn supports the stacked blanks, and is designed for side-shifting and raising and lowering of the base, in the stacking station, thereby allowing the desired positioning of the stacked blanks on the pallet and the pallet on the base. Automated adjustable devices which conform to the configuration of the blank neatly stack the blanks and variations to the arrangement allow more than one blank to be removed from different sources in the press, thereby permitting more than one stack to be made simultaneously.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 1991
Date of Patent:
June 22, 1993
Assignee:
Wean Incorporated
Inventors:
Robert H. Messerly, William Semenik, Norman H. Fobes, Robert J. Prox
Abstract: An arrangement in a press feed line for picking up and conveying metal blanks at generally the same rate of speed they exit speed from the press, and automatically stacking them on a stacker car, or the like. The stacker car has a rotatable base supporting a pallet, which in turn supports the stacked blanks, and is designed for side-shifting and raising and lowering of the base, in the stacking station, thereby allowing the desired positioning of the stacked blanks on the pallet and the pallet on the base. Automated adjustable devices which may conform to the configuration of the blank neatly stack the blanks and variations to the arrangement allow more than one blank to be removed from different sources in the press, thereby permitting more than one stack to be made simultaneously.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 1989
Date of Patent:
August 13, 1991
Assignee:
Wean Incorporated
Inventors:
Robert H. Messerly, William Semenik, Norman H. Fobes, Robert J. Prox
Abstract: An arrangement in a press feed line for picking up and conveying metal blanks at generally the same rate of speed they exit speed from the press, and automatically stacking them on a stacker car, or the like. The stacker car has a rotatable base supporting a pallet, which in turn supports the stacked blanks, and is designed for sideshifting and raising and lowering of the base, in the stacking station, thereby allowing the desired positioning of the stacked blanks on the pallet and the pallet on the base. Automated adjustable devices which may conform to the configuration of the blank neatly stack the blanks and variations to the arrangment allow more than one blank to be removed from different sources in the press, thereby permitting more than one stack to be made simultaneously.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 1986
Date of Patent:
April 11, 1989
Assignee:
Wean Incorporated
Inventors:
Robert H. Messerly, William Semenik, Norman H. Fobes, Robert J. Prox