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.

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.

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.

Abstract: A reel with an expandable mandrel support device for coiling material such as flat rolled steel strip or strips, the reel mandrel having a gripper mechanism for effectively securing each leading end to the reel mandrel which mechanism has numerous cam action gripper bars that singularly can increase gripping force as the tension in the strip strands clamped by one or more cams is developed by the reel; a positioning wedge assembly for these gripper bars constructed to first position and hold immovable, in an operative position, except for movement due to tension buildup, and secondly to positively and quickly release all gripper bars from the strand ends and hence from the reel mandrel when the coils formed by the reel mandrel are to be removed.