Patent ID: 6494309
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: B41F,B41P,H01L

Abstract:
A system between a conveyor and a machine for loading and/or offloading a support for objects adapted to be stacked, which system includes:a carriage mobile in translation between a retracted position in which the carriage is moved away from the machine and an advanced position in which the carriage is close to the machine, the direction of movement of the carriage being substantially horizontal, an arm adapted to push or pull a support, having at its free end a shape suitable for the support to be moved, and mounted on the carriage and articulated about a substantially vertical shaft, between a deployed position in which the free end of the arm is on the trajectory of a support and a retracted position folded toward the carriage, and a spring return system spring-loading the arm toward its deployed position.