Patent ID: 7063500
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: B65G,B65H

Abstract:
1. A method of stacking a veneer sheet having four sides and carried by a conveyer onto a pile of veneer sheets, comprising, separating the veneer sheet from the conveyer at a predetermined position immediately above the pile of veneer sheets thereby to allow the separated veneer sheet to drop from the conveyer; and restraining the veneer sheet by an elongated flexible member which is normally disposed extending above and without interfering with the veneer sheet carried by the conveyer and operable to be lowered substantially simultaneously with said separating of the veneer sheet in a taut state and at such a speed that the elongated flexible member is brought into frictional engagement with the veneer sheet at at least one side thereof which extends in substantially perpendicular relation to the length of said elongated flexible member thereby to restrain the veneer sheet being dropped from the conveyer, until the elongated flexible member is bent at said one side of the veneer sheet which is then dropped onto the pile of veneer sheets thereby to restrain the veneer sheet.