Patent ID: 7963511
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: B30B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for moving and positioning objects to be laminated inside a press, comprising: a tray which is arranged on a substantially horizontal plane and in which multiple seats are provided which have a substantially vertical axis; a plurality of pins, each of which is accommodated in a respective said seat and is provided with a head which protrudes, with an end thereof, from an upper face of said tray; a supporting surface for a lower face of an object to be positioned in the press formed by the heads of said pins, said pins being actuatable to move individually along the axis of the corresponding seat in order to pass from a raised position, in which the pins make contact with and support the object, to a lowered position, in which the pins are spaced downwardly from the object; elastic means being provided for each of said pins and cooperating with each corresponding pin and seat in order to retain said corresponding pin in said raised position, said elastic means being flexible in order to allow transition of said pin from the raised position to the lowered position and vice versa; and selection means which are actuatable by being movable in a first translational direction to engage with a portion of each said pin which protrudes downwardly from said tray for actuating transition of said pin from said raised position to said lowered position, said selection means being further actuatable by being movable in a second translational direction opposite to said first translational direction to engage with said portion of said pin which protrudes downwardly from said tray for actuating transition of said pin from said lowered position to said raised position, said selection means being configured such that all of said plurality of pins are moved into said raised position when said selection means are moved in said second translational direction, and said selection means being configured such that only selected pins of said plurality of pins are moved into said lowered position from said raised position when said selection means are moved in said first translational direction.