Patent ID: 6386812
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: B42C,B65H

Abstract:
In a cover-feeder for isolating the uppermost cover of a flat stack of covers which is continuously advanced, with lateral alignment and as far as a front-edge stop, in an imbricated stack formation on a transport belt of a feed table, the cover-feeder having a series of separating suction devices along an elevational line on a suction head, which suction head can be pivoted to and fro, for lifting the cover off the stack, and having a drawing-off arrangement for taking over the lifted cover and transferring it to a forwarding conveyor, wherein the improvement comprises means for adjusting the feed table with the transport belt to selectable positions obliquely transverse to the direction of drawing-off of the covers, in such a way that the elevational line defined by that face of the cover which is acted upon by the separating suction devices runs parallel to the elevational line of the separating suction devices.