Patent ID: 8312983

Claim:
An apparatus for stacking electrode plates, comprising a first transfer conveyor unit having an addressing conveyor and a movable conveyor, a power unit driving the movable conveyor upward and downward so as to vary an angle between the movable conveyor and the addressing conveyor; a second transfer conveyor unit having a plurality of conveyors located at different heights; and an electrode plate support having a plurality of support plates which are parallel to one another in a vertical direction, the electrode plate support being moved upward or downward in the vertical direction via a conveyor device so as to move the support plates to positions adjacent to their own corresponding conveyors of the second transfer conveyor unit at different heights, and each of the support plates at different heights accepting an electrode plate from its own corresponding conveyor of the second transfer conveyor unit, the electrode plate support further including a plurality of posts, each post having a plurality of grooves which are located in parallel to one another in the vertical direction and face to the same direction, the support plates having lugs which are engaged with the grooves such that the support plates are supported by the posts.