Patent ID: 6612563
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A device for stacking successive planar products carried along a feeding path and separating pluralities of said successive planar products into individual stacks, each of said individual stacks containing a predetermined number of said successive planar products, said device comprisinga circular conveyor comprising a rotatable support, and a plurality of circular conveyor grippers mounted thereon and spaced apart by a circumferential distance, each of said circular conveyor grippers carrying one of said successive planar products from said feed path to said stacking point and adapted to release said successive planar products at a stacking point; said circular conveyor grippers grip each of said successive planar products in a plane which substantially bisects the conveyor's axis of rotation; said circular conveyor positioned between, in a vertical orientation, said feeder path and said stacking point; and a sensor, adjacent said feeding path at a counting point, adapted to count said successive planar products as they pass said sensor and while they are spaced apart by a distance.