Abstract: The present invention is directed to a lightweight ventilated facade which can be constructed completely from inside a building, comprising one or more anchor plates, one or more mullion profiles, one or more architectural cladding panels and one or more insulation panels, wherein the anchor plates are fastened along a perimeter of a floor plate of a building, wherein each of the mullion profiles is vertically fastened to an anchor plate on the outer side of the floor plate, wherein each of the cladding panels is fastened to two mullion profiles on the outer side of these mullion profiles, wherein each of the insulation panels is fastened between two mullion profiles, wherein there is a ventilated cavity between the insulation panels and the cladding panels. The present invention is also directed to a method for constructing such a facade.

Abstract: A machine for building a stack of stiff flat articles comprises an input device for feed of a horizontal flow of flat articles in an overlapping shingled relationship and travelling in a first direction, a pusher mechanism for engaging with a side of one of the flat articles and for driving a plurality of flat articles into a vertical stack at a first location. The pusher mechanism comprises a carriage device for movement in the first direction, a bottom-pusher mechanism mounted on the carriage and a top-pusher mechanism mounted on the carriage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to separating of flat-folded boxes out of a stream of overlapping shingled flat-folded boxes, into a stack, more particularly to a method and a device for automatically doing so. A modular stacking station for assembling packets of flat-folded corrugated cardboard boxes, which are offered to a strapping section or strapping machine is also described.