Patent ID: 7281710

Claim:
A conveyor system comprising: a first conveyor for conveying a sheet made of a material capable of being magnetically attracted, which is cut off from sheets of various sizes to a predetermined length by a press; a position movement unit for adjustably moving a position of the first conveyor in back-and-forth directions relative to said press; a second conveyor for conveying the sheet supplied from said first conveyor to a stacking area while attracting the sheet to a belt with a plurality of electromagnets, and for dropping the sheet in a vertical direction onto the stacking area, wherein the position movement unit is operable to adjust the position of the first conveyor in relation to the second conveyor; a touch panel monitor for entering sheet information including at least information as to a length of said sheet and another information as to a position where said sheet is loaded on the first conveyor from said press; an operating condition setting unit for performing branching based on the length of said sheet and a unit length of each of said electromagnets and setting operating condition data including at least a conveyor feed length representative of a feed cycle of said sheet on said second conveyor and a number of sheets on said first and second conveyors, based on said sheet information; and an operation controller for intermittently and independently operating said first and second conveyors based on said operation condition data.