Patent ID: 9045243
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: B65B,B65G,B65H,G03G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for stacking sheet material received from a converting machine, comprising: a trim section permitting scrap material to fall away from a plurality of blanks of sheet material; a stacking section, downstream the trim section for receiving the blanks of sheet material and forming bundles each comprising a plurality of blanks and transferring the bundles downstream; and an overhead support apparatus from which components of at least the trim section and the stacking section are moveably suspended such that the components are independently longitudinally positionable in at least one of upstream and downstream directions so as to create an operator access space between at least two of the components, the overhead support apparatus constraining movement of the components such that the components are movable along a generally longitudinal line defined by the upstream and downstream directions and generally not moveable laterally outward away from the longitudinal line.