Patent ID: 6182960
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing flexible sheet-like products comprisinga feed conveyor for supplying the products to a receiving location,an intermediate conveyor which includes a plurality of pivotably controlled grippers arranged for movement serially along a continuous circulatory path in a direction of circulation, with each of said grippers including means for gripping a leading product from the feed conveyor and for guiding the gripped product around the following gripper in the direction of circulation so that the gripped product moves from one side of the following gripper to the other side as the gripped product moves along the continuous circulatory path, and such that the sequence of the products remains intact and the mutually facing sides of adjacent products are reversed, anda removal conveyor arranged downstream of the intermediate conveyor for receiving the products from the grippers and conveying them away.