Patent ID: 6699006
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: B29C

Abstract:
A method for stacking containers that have been shaped and punched from a sheet of thermoplastic plastic in a shaping tool and guided to stack magazines, and for transferring stacks of containers to a successive device, comprisingthe following method steps: a) transferring the containers into a first stack magazine at a stacking station; b) after a predetermined number of containers per stack has been attained in the first stack magazine, displacing the first stack magazine into a stack-removal station, and transferring a second stack magazine out of a stack-removal station into the stacking station for transfer of the containers into the second stack magazine, between two cycles of the shaping tool; and c) while the containers are being stacked in the second stack magazine, emptying the first stack magazine, and guiding the stacks removed from the first stack magazine to a successive device.