Patent ID: 9156638
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: B41J,B60R,B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for feeding successive plate blanks through an indicia marking process so as to produce finished plates stacked and ordered in a receiving magazine, the apparatus comprising: a load magazine operably configured to hold a plurality of plate blanks and successively present a single plate blank at a load magazine opening thereof; and an actuator arm operable to interact with said single plate blank at said opening to linearly move said single plate blank along a travel path through the indicia marking process to successively produce the finished plates, and successively deliver the finished plates into a receiving magazine via a receiving magazine opening thereof such that the finished plates are successively inserted in order into a receiving magazine adjacent previously finished plates maintained in the receiving magazine so as to form the stack of finished plates; wherein said receiving magazine opening is located in a side wall of a receiving magazine housing configured to receive therethrough a single plate into said receiving magazine housing.