Patent ID: 6086317
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: B25H,E04F,Y10S

Abstract:
An inverter for inverting to an upside down orientation a planate article which comprises means for supporting the article in a horizontal attitude and for tilting the article downwardly at a leading end from the horizontal to a near vertical attitude with the leading end at a transfer location and back upwardly at the leading end from the near vertical attitude to the horizontal, a carriage for receiving the article from and returning the article to the transfer location at the near vertical attitude and for moving the article to and from a rotation location a horizontal distance away from the transfer location, the carriage being moveable between the transfer location and the rotation location and means associated with the carriage for supporting the planate article at a near vertical attitude and for rotating the article about a vertical axis when the article is on the carriage at the rotation location, whereby the article may be tilted from the horizontal attitude to a near vertical attitude with a leading edge at the transfer location, where it is transferred to the carriage, moved on the carriage to the rotation position, rotated 180 degrees by the near vertical support and rotation means, moved back to the transfer location by the carriage to be received and moved back to the horizontal attitude in an inverted orientation by the supporting and tilting means.