Abstract: A fastening device for securing a tool on an adjustable crossbar of a waste stripping and blank separating station of a sheet processing machine includes a tie bar provided with a headed end which receives a support for the tool part, a pair of clamping jaws, each of which is provided with a supporting surface designed to enter in contact with the crossbar of the stripping station and have additional supporting surfaces designed to enter into contact with one another. The second end of the tie bars carries a tightening arrangement which provides three positions including a substantial release of pressure on the jaws to enable fixing and dismantling of the tool, an intermediate amount of pressure on the jaws to allow shifting of the arrangement along the crossbar and a third amount of pressure which provides a tightening or locking of the tool in a given position on the crossbar.

Abstract: Apparatus for conveying upper and lower webs of material having equally spaced, successive, transverse lines of weakening along a longitudinal path and for separating the webs along the transverse lines of weakening. The apparatus includes: a longitudinally extending support structure; a bottom pair of upper and lower, vertically spaced feed rollers rotatably supported by the structure; a pair of upper and lower, vertically spaced burster rollers, the lower burster roller having a shaft and being rotatably supported by the structure downstream of the bottom feed rollers; a clam shell housing pivotably mounted on the lower burster roller shaft, wherein the upper burster roller is supported by the clam shell housing; and a top pair of upper and lower, vertically spaced feed rollers rotatably supported by the clam shell housing.

Abstract: A method for removing flashing from a low density plastic blow molded bottle which includes nesting the bottle from which the flashing is to be removed such that substantially its entire surface is engaged in the housing, to facilitate the removal of the flashing from the neck of the bottle without damage to the bottle. The flashing is secured with jaws at the juncture of the flashing with the bottle to remove the flashing without damage to the bottle.

Abstract: Apparatus having two spaced rolls with a plurality of intermeshed disc-like teeth. The rolls form a nip into which an absorbent board is fed for partial slitting. The board is comprised of both long and short fibers. The apparatus separates the short fibers at each slit while leaving a number of long fibers intact to maintain a unitary structure. Advantageously, the teeth of one roll form gaps slightly wider than the thickness of the long fibers with the teeth of the other roll to permit passage of the long fibers.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for making a cookie preform from a continuous cookie dough rope by inserting finger means into said rope in a direction generally transverse to a longitudinal axis of said rope and displacing at least selected ones of said finger means at a velocity relative to the velocity of said rope sufficient to stretch said rope to the breaking point to separate said portion from said rope, whereby said portion has at least one surface formed by said stretching action to have a coarse appearance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting polycrystalline silicon rods which comprise applying pressing forces at at least two positions on a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a polycrystalline silicon rod at a plurality of positions symmetrical to said axis.

Abstract: A deckle-edge-simulating apparatus generally comprising a conveyor system for transporting a web of paper through the apparatus, and a novel deckle-edge-simulating assembly operatively associated with the conveyor system. The deckle-edge-simulating assembly generally includes a configured transport roller or anvil in association with a deckling fixture. The anvil is disposed beneath the web of paper, and includes one or more circumferential grooves in its surface. The deckling fixture includes a blunt-edged blade extending from and between a pair of nip forming rollers disposed on either side of the blade, and into one of the grooves of an anvil. As the web of paper passes across the anvil, the blunt-edged blade operates to burst the fibers of the paper to create a simulated deckled edge. The nip forming rollers serve to firmly hold the web of paper in position during this deckling procedure.

Abstract: An automatic machine for die cutting and creasing paperboard and similar paper materials, in sheet or continuous web form, into shaped package blanks and the like has a separation station at which the shaped blanks are separated from the waste portions of the sheet or web. The blanks are cut into the paperboard stock leaving just enough material, termed nicks, to hold the blanks and waste material together for transfer as a unit to a separation station. The machine is so designed that the male and female dies are simultaneously formed by cutting both from a single panel of plywood and even though the portions remaining between the individual die openings of the female ones of the dies are too narrow and weak to withstand the impact incident to the separation operation, are reinforced to provide the necessary strength by bonding a strip of creasing die to the lower face of the portions needing reinforcement.

Abstract: A waste stripping tool comprising a grid formed of crossbar members consisting of a crossbar assembly of two members held side-by-side by a coupler. The assembly consists of a strap, which has two jaws having two triangular profiled teeth engaged in grooves in each of the crossbar members and threaded arrangement for causing a clamping of the jaws onto the members to hold them in a side-by-side relationship. The assembly can be utilized in a stripping station of a sheet die cutting machine and allows for the reduction of the number of bars needed to construct the frame of different sizes for the particular station.

Abstract: A method and device are provided for separating trimming losses from a sheet having a plurality of products formed thereon with star-shaped scraps between the products. In one embodiment, the sheet is placed on a sheet supporting plate. The sheet is positioned between a blanking plate and a plurality of pushing rods fixed to a mounting plate. Each of the pushing rods has a piercing pin extending from the free end thereof for penetrating into a corresponding star-shaped scrap. The blanking plate has through holes formed therein which correspond to the pushing rods and star-shaped scraps such that the pushing rod passes through a corresponding through hole. The inner diameter of each through hole is smaller than the outer size or greatest dimension of the star-shaped scrap. When the star-shaped scrap is pushed through the through hole by the pushing rod, it deforms and passes through the through hole.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for breaking ceramic substrates which are used in the manufacture of hybrid electronic circuits. The substrate to be divided is subjected to a predetermined rigid deformation by means of two rigid dies having a circular cross-section with radii which differ. The centers of curvature of the circular cross-sections coincide when the dies are in their final position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating interconnected stacks in a pack of multiple stacks. The pack is confined and an impact wheel is pivoted into the pack at the juncture of the interconnected stacks. The wheel is frusto-conically shaped and the impact of the wheel first breaks the interconnection and then lifts the edge of one of the stacks while a holding shoe on the other stack holds the mated side edge of that juncture. A pivotal spread bar engages individual stacks with the remainder of the pack being confined to complete separation of the interconnection. Conveyor means conveys the stacks towards a packaging machine.

Abstract: A device for breaking off edge strips from a blank, within which model glass sheets of present shape are scratched. The breaking off edge operation takes place with the aid of pressure pins, placed on a carrier plate arranged parallel to glass sheets. The pressure pins are adapted to be lowered onto the edge strips which are to be broken off. The plurality of pressure pins are located on the carrier plate in a broad arrangement covering various sizes and shapes of the glass sheets. Each individual pressure pin, independently of the neighboring pressure pins can be moved from its retracted rest position into its lowered working position as a function of the shape and size of the respective glass sheet. The pressure pins may be operated by pneumatic cylinders controlled in accordance with a program allocated in each case to the glass sheet to be processed. The invention permits control of a breaking off device for molded glass sheets according to a preset program.

Abstract: A perforated web-like bituminous roofing material comprising a perforated, bituminized carrier, at the side facing, in the condition of use, the roof area to be coated, is provided with a metal foil leaving clear the perforations in the bituminized carrier. The roofing material can be manufactured by finishing one side of a perforated bituminized carrier with fine sprinkling material and coating the other side with an imperforate metal foil, and subsequently removing the metal foil at the perforations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for segmenting groove molded building boards. In a preferred embodiment, a sheet of groove molded board is conveyed onto a first apparatus which separates the side edge trim scrap from the board. The board then passes onto a segmenting apparatus comprising a first horizontal conveyor, an inclined conveyor, a second generally horizontal conveyor, and adjustably mounted roller assemblies. The first apparatus removes the side-edge trim scrap from the board and the second segmenting apparatus breaks the groove molded board transversely along the groove molded lines. In addition, the second apparatus separates the leading and trailing edge scrap so as to provide individual board panels which require no additional trimming. As an alternative, two segmenting conveyors can be used in tandem so as to remove all of the scrap, thereby obviating the need for the first trim-scrap removing apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for the passivating, multistage compaction of hot iron particles supplied in the form of a packed bed from a reduction unit and for the subsequent breaking apart of the compacted iron band is described. Prior to the final compacting, the iron particles pass through a homogenizing and precompressing stage. Thus, the compacted iron has a pore volume of max. 40% and a density of at least 5.5 g/cm.sup.3. The iron compacted to a band is subsequently guided between the rollers (7,8,11) of a separating stage exposing it to bending stresses such that it breaks apart at the predetermined desired breaking points. The breaking points have a smaller density than the band regions between them. They can be produced in that in the precompression stage the feed speed is briefly decelerated compared with the feed speed in the compaction stage or in the compaction stage there is less marked compression at these points than in the intermediate regions.

Abstract: Provided is a syringe destruction apparatus comprising a syringe needle shearing section and a barrel breaking section, wherein the needle and barrel of a used syringe are broken by movable blades driven by a rotating cam plate to prevent the syringe from being reused, thereby it is possible to prevent a used syringe from being abused in narcotic crimes.

Abstract: An apparatus for the simultaneous shearing of two sides of the boiling water nuclear reactor control rod. The rotation of the rods at 90 degree rotation and the shearing of the second two sides underwater in a nuclear waste storage pool.In a previous application by A. H. Krieg, Ser. No. 692,849, we have seen the crushing of a BWR control rod for the purpose of reducing nuclear radioactive waste. The control rod however has an end referred to as the velocity limiter end, which is round and bulbous. This end can not be crushed practically, due to its mass. The purpose of this invention is to shear or cut-off the velocity limiter from the rest of the control rod thus having the remaining cruciform crushable. Between the velocity limiter and the rest of the control rod are 2 "D" shaped holes, hereafter refered to as the "D" holes. At this point the control rod is solid and does not contain hollow fins or boron rods.

Abstract: A method for cutting flexible formed shell product from a flexible plastic foam sheet. In the method, a foam shell formed in the sheet is drawn into and positioned in a die unit lower cavity and the die assembly is clamped together. A cutting die unit having dual curved serrated knife elements then descends and severs the formed shell from the sheet at all locations except for two short segments located at opposite ends of the formed shell. Then as a separate step, the partly severed formed shell is punched out from the flexible foam sheet, so as to provide multiple formed products. The products are usually formed as multiple units oriented in an end-to-end relationship in the foam sheet and which are simultaneously severed from the sheet. Cutting die apparatus adapted for cutting the formed products from the foam sheet is also disclosed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for removing flash from an article are provided. The method features the steps of striking the flash with a first lash at least partially along the side of the lash with enough force to initiate separation of the flash from the article while simultaneously supporting the lash sufficiently to prevent the lash from bending sharply on itself and breaking; these steps are repeated until the flash has been completely separated from the article. The apparatus comprises at least one lash with sufficient support to prevent it from bending on itself and breaking, and means for rotating the lash about a central axis for contact with the flash.

Abstract: A self-contained machine for simultaneously slicing and perforating severally the baked goods, such as English muffins, bagels, buns, rolls or the like, in two rows; the machine including a framework on which are mounted but a single motor, a split belt conveyor, a slicing station and a perforating station, and drive mechanisms severally operatively connecting the motor with the conveyor, slicing station and perforating station, the slicing station including a horizontal serrated wheel and guide cooperating with one of the split belts and each other for proper slicing of the baked goods in one row, and the perforating station including a cleated belt arranged on edge, a perforating member and a guide cooperating with the other split belt and each other, for proper perforating of the baked goods in the other row.

Abstract: A method of breaking an optical fiber comprises the steps of surrounding the fiber with elastomeric material in the region of the desired break location and then compressing the elastomeric material towards the axis of the fiber. When the material is compressed, it grips the fiber so that the fiber and the material cannot move relative to each other. Compression of the material also results in elongation of the material so that the fiber is placed in tension and fractures at the desired break point. An apparatus for carrying out the processes is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for segmenting groove molded building boards. In a preferred embodiment, a sheet of groove molded board is conveyed onto a first apparatus which separates the side edge trim scrap from the board. The board then passes onto a segmenting apparatus comprising a first horizontal conveyor, an inclined conveyor, a second generally horizontal conveyor, and adjustably mounted roller assemblies. The first apparatus removes the side-edge trim scrap from the board and the second segmenting apparatus breaks the groove molded board transversely along the groove molded lines. In addition, the second apparatus separates the leading and trailing edge scrap so as to provide individual board panels which require no additional trimming. As an alternative, two segmenting conveyors can be used in tandem so as to remove all of the scrap, thereby obviating the need for the first trim-scrap removing apparatus.

Abstract: A machine for slicing matting of brittle fiber material comprising an elastomeric coated anvil roller and a slicer roller having a plurality of cutting discs mounted on an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the anvil roller, which depress the matting into the elastomeric material of the anvil roller sufficiently to break the brittle fibers. The sliced matting can then be conveniently cut transversely on the same machine, if desired, to form diced brittle fiber matting. The diced matting, e.g., of fiberglass is a way of facilitating the separation of short fibers from fiberglass matting to produce raw material for forming new matting, or the diced brittle fiber matting, e.g., fiberglass or carbon fiber matting may be used as such.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for cutting elongated material into short lengths is provided. The method features the steps of compressing the elongated material at discrete intervals transversely; slightly tensioning the elongated material along its length between intervals; pressing the slightly tensioned elongated material between intervals against a cutting edge; and cutting the elongated material with the cutting edge. The apparatus features a pair of cooperating rolls rotating in opposite directions and between which the elongated material passes. The cutting roll has a plurality of radially extending cutting blades as well as a plurality of radially extending projections, at least one of the projections being located on each side of a cutting blade and extending further radially from the cutting roll than the blades. The second roll is formed of an elastic material and is engaged by the projections in succession to compress the elongated material therebetween.

Abstract: A driven, rotatable cylinder (11-1) spaced from a counterstructure (11-4, 11-2&3, 11b-2,3&4, 11c-2&2', 11B-2, 11C-2, 11-5, 11-6) to permit parts or connectors (P or C) to fall between the rotatable cylinder and the counterstructure. A continuous drive belt (16) is employed with an idler (14-6) to permit adjustment of the separation between the cylinder and the counterstructure while the cylinder is in motion.

Abstract: A tining machine capable of tining or perforating Kaiser and onion buns and other similar crusty rolls or loaves (and, with minor modifications, English muffins) serves to produce a product that stays together around its entire diameter thus retaining freshness and which at the same time may be readily pulled apart by the consumer in the general manner of a tine-split English muffin.

Abstract: A machine for carrying baked English muffins along a plane, and scoring the edges of the muffins all around the outer edge surface during a single pass through the machine by controlling the rotation of the muffin about an axis perpendicular to the general muffin plane at the same time that a sharp blade makes an incision into the skin of the muffin a short distance for scoring the outer periphery.

Abstract: A method and a device for manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitors, in which a plate of ceramic material composed of several layers is subdivided in the green non-sintered state into separate capacitor elements. For this purpose, by means of notching members, notches of a given depth are provided simultaneously on both sides of the plate in such a manner that spontaneous ruptures are obtained through the remaining thickness of the plate. Due to this method, the contamination of the exposed electrode layers and delamination are avoided. By the use of a frame with resilient walls, the already separated capacitor elements are held together until the notching process has been carried out completely.

Abstract: An ice making machine with an improved cube cutter is disclosed. A pair of oscillating pivotal cutter bars are disposed adjacent and beneath vertical ice making columns. The cutter bars are arranged to pivot in opposite directions so that as a rod or tube of ice falls therebetween, it is cut off into a cube, which then falls between the cutters into an appropriate receptacle.

Abstract: An ampoule breaker tool comprising a lever containing a plurality of through-holes and adapted to engage the upper bulb portion of an ampoule provides an efficient and safe means for opening ampoules. The tool can be hand held whereby leverage is provided remote from the ampoule bulb to transmit a force on the mid-section of the ampoule bulb and sever the bulb from the ampoule.

Abstract: A device for processing a batch or stack of die cut sheets to sever the individual blanks into piles of blanks characterized by a lower frame supporting a fixed plate and a slidable plate, an upper frame movable relative to the lower frame supporting a fixed plate and a slidable plate, each of said fixed and slidable plates supporting a pair of transversely movable tables so that when a batch of die cut sheets is disposed between the movable tables and the upper frame is lowered, the movable tables can cause a separation of the blanks along two orthogonal directions. The device also includes a conveyor which is mounted in the frame for conveying the batch into the device and the piles out of the device with the conveyor being retracted as the upper frame is moved into clamping engagement with the batch of sheets.

Abstract: A waste stripping machine for automatically removing waste from previously die-cut blanks is disclosed. The machine incorporates a feed conveyor to deliver the blanks individually to a stripping section in planar alignment. The stripping section includes a pair of transversely spaced waste strippers which are spaced apart an adjustable distance that is equal to the width of the blank. A rack and pinion traversing mechanism is included to easily move one waste stripper relative to the other for blank size adjustment purposes. Each waste stripper is fabricated with a driving belt and two driven belts whereby one driven belt defines a planar waste engaging area with the driving belt and the other driven belt defines a circular waste engaging area with the driving belt. The machine is powered by a single motor which functions the feed conveyor and the waste strippers in synchronism to deliver the stripped blank to discharge rollers, which rollers are also rotated in synchronism.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously separating castings into necessary and unnecessary portions, which castings are automatically and continuously produced by a die casting machine. The castings are separated into the necessary and unnecessary portions by vibration applied to a conveyance mechanism and to a plurality of masses while the castings are conveyed along the conveyance mechanism, which comprises a plurality of bar members.

Abstract: A stacking machine and method for pairing and stacking metal plates having teeth struck out and protruding therefrom, which plates are commonly referred to as nail plates. The nail plates that are to be stacked are supplied to a supply section of the machine in streams of longitudinally extending metal plates as the plates exit from a stamping machine. It is in the stamping machine that the teeth forming the nails of the plates are struck out from the plates. These nail plates are supplied to a stacking section of the stacking machine two plate lengths at a time. The stacking section receives the pair of metal plates, which also can be two plate sections with each section being formed of several plates, in a longitudinally extending relationship from the supply section and then reorientates the two metal plates so that the two plates are in a face-to-face orientation. The pairs of plates are then transferred to a stack receiving section.

Abstract: A process and machine, as a separate or integral part of a process and machine for manufacturing glassware, plastic or similar articles, adapted for the specific purpose of simultaneously cutting off excess ends of hollow glass, plastic or similar articles such as tubes enlarged at their mid-portion, comprising means for rotationally supporting the mid-portion of said articles either vertically or horizontally; thermal, electromagnetic or mechanical cutting means movable into and out of cutting relation with the excess ends of the article, rotatable grippers synchronized with the supporting means for rotationally gripping one or both excess ends during cutting of same and being adapted to exert a slight outward axial force at a predetermined rate on said excess ends until the cutting action is completed, and to release the excess ends to gravitate to a scrap collector before or after removal of the finished article.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for reducing metallic ribbon to shard. The device has a slotted anvil for passing the ribbon therethrough. An impact surface is provided which passes in close proximity to the anvil and strikes the ribbon as it exits from the anvil.

Abstract: A machine and process for removing adhesively fastened base cups from plastic bottles, comprising conveyor means for transporting said bottles and a pair of inwardly opposed extensible fingers, projecting at an angle of about 25.degree. to about 30.degree. upward from the vertical, to engage each base cup and separate it from the bottle. Optionally, the machine may include means to cut the bottle into sections for more remunerative scrap recovery.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatic bursting of perforated continuous forms is disclosed. The apparatus comprises first and second feeder means which may comprise two pairs of rotating rollers with tensioning means being provided by rotating the roller pairs at a slight speed differential. The apparatus also includes releasing means for intermittently releasing the feeding action of the first feeder means or roller pair. The releasing means may be provided by a flat area on the surface of one of the low speed rollers for releasing the nip in the low speed rollers to allow the forms to slip and uncrinkle. The apparatus also includes first and second forms separation means which cooperate with perforations in the forms to separate the forms, the first separation means acting when no immediately preceding forms slippage has occurred and the second separation means acting when immediately preceding forms slippage has occurred.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting each light waveguide of a plurality of light waveguides which are assembled in a cable of light waveguides characterized by an anvil positioned between a pair of common clamps for holding the waveguides parallel to each other with one clamp being biased away from the other clamp, a lifting device for lifting each of the light waveguides sequentially one after another so that the lifted waveguide carries all of the tension provided by the force acting on the moveable clamp and a notching device for simultaneously notching or scratching the lifted waveguide to cause separation of the waveguide at the notch.

Abstract: A continuous cutter ring or hoop having relatively thick, large-angle chisel teeth to bend and break attenuated glass fibers in a glass fiber chopping assembly is disclosed. The continuous cutter is an annular ring or hoop of steel or other hard material which is formed having an outer circumference provided with integral, regularly spaced, raised cutting teeth. The continuous cutter is secured on a suitable cutter wheel which cooperates with a second wheel having an elastomer cot around its circumference with the glass fibers to be severed passing between the continuous cutter and the elastomer cot. The cutter teeth are generally chisel-shaped and sever the glass fiber strand without cutting or destroying the elastomer cot. The integrally formed cutter teeth will not separate from the cutter ring and are not subject to being misaligned.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and apparatus for breaking off the marginal strip of a glass blank scored according to a predetermined contour. The glass blank, resting with its entire surface on an elastically resilient support, is put under tensile stresses in the area of the marginal strip by lowerable pressure tools.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plate-shaped permanent magnet (7) which is to be arranged in an air gap of a core (1) for a transformer or choke coil and which consists of a number of permanent magnetic portions (29) which are made of a metal alloy having a high magnetic remanence and which are magnetized perpendicularly to the plane of the plate. A plate (11) of the alloy is fixed between two insulating foils (13, 15) after which this assembly is arranged on a flat backing (17) and is rolled in two mutually perpendicular directions (25, 27) by means of a cylinder (19) whose outer surface is provided with grooves (23). The plate (11) is thus very simply fractured to form a very large number of portions (29).

Abstract: Stripping apparatus to remove scrap around die cut blanks in a web comprises a roll pair through which the web is passed, one roll carrying spikes to impale the scrap pieces and the other roll carrying abutments to contact the scrap pieces on the opposite side to the spikes. According to the invention the abutments are retractable, so that effectively the scrap piece is pinched between the spike and abutment shortly before the nip of the rolls. FIG. 1 illustrates the preferred arrangement.

Abstract: A machine and method for subdividing into individual substrates a wafer which is prescored with a pattern of intersecting score lines defining the substrates. The wafer is progressively directed over a first wafer-engaging surface substantially paralleling one set of score lines, and this surface operates during a breaking operation to impart a localized force at a score line in the set. The wafer is halted for the breaking operation, after which the broken-off portion is directed over a second wafer-engaging surface substantially paralleling the other set of score lines. This second surface operates, during a substrate breaking operation, to apply a localized force adjacent a score line of the other set. The broken-off portion is also halted for this second breaking operation, in which an individual substrate is separated from the previously broken-off portion of the wafer. An inclined track transports the material from the first to the second breaking operation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cutter for long glass tubes which are placed on a feeding table, and dropped into a carrier one by one, and then onto a specially wound conveyor for wave-like-transversal feed. When the glass tubes pass the cutter, they are cut one by one to the required length and the cut glass tubes are then packed or conveyed to another place for further processing.

Abstract: Apparatus for partitioning and/or shaping a fibrous batt by gripping the batt along adjacent lines with resilient means gripping one surface and non-resilient means gripping the opposite surface and displacing said lines with respect to each other to separate the batt without compacting the parted edges of the batt.

Abstract: An apparatus for dividing strip material, in particular strip-shaped scrap resulting from edge-trimming of rolled strip and metal sheet, comprises at least one pair of mutually co-operating cutters (18, 18a), between which the strip material (14) is fed and which are arranged to penetrate the strip material from mutually opposite sides. The two cutters in each co-operating pair are mutually substantially parallel at the moment of their penetration into the strip material. The one cutter (18) in each pair is arranged to engage the strip material slightly in front of the second cutter (18a), as seen in the direction of movement of the strip material, and then to move away from the second cutter in the direction of movement of the strip material, such that the part of strip material located in front of the cutters is separated from the remainder of the strip material by a combined cutting and tearing operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating rolls of web material of the type where two or more rolls are attached at the side edges thereof comprising passing the first roll between an upper and lower conveyor defining a first path of travel, and simultaneously passing each attached roll between additional upper and lower conveyors defining a path of travel for each attached roll, where the path of travel for each roll is sufficiently vertically separated from its immediately adjacent path that the rolls passing therethrough are separated.

Abstract: Apparatus for marshalling glass sheets comprises a conveyor capable of conveying an array of sheets lying in a transverse sheet array across the conveyor to a sheet removal station, transverse conveying means extending transversely above the conveyor and transfer means operable to transfer a sheet or sheets from the conveyor to the transverse conveying means at the sheet removal station. The transfer means includes a plurality of selectively and separately operable transfer devices, such as lifting devices, extending in an array across the array of sheet positions, and control means for controlling simultaneous operation of selected transfer devices.