Patent ID: 8177473
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: B65G,B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for transferring wooden veneer sheets from a stack of horizontal veneer sheets of variable widths, each layer of said stack having at least one veneer sheet stacked one of i) singly, ii) side-by-side and iii) overlapping, said apparatus comprising: separate lifting elements that lift and grip by suction an upper surface of each top-most veneer sheet in the stack, the lifting elements being positioned in at least one row extending in one direction over the stack of the veneer sheets; transfer elements for transferring the lifted veneers; means to observe a top most surface of the stack of the veneers by means of a control device comprising: means to control a suction effect of the lifting elements in each row adjacent to the illuminated pattern based on information observed by the camera means for the illumination pattern by opening only those lifting elements positioned above such top-most veneer sheets.