Patent ID: 8439184

Claim:
An assembly for transporting roofing shingles between their production and their packaging, the assembly comprising: an accelerator section including a plurality of lower belts for driving said shingles from a shingle cutter to a stacker area; a plurality of upper belts positioned above said lower belts for holding down said shingles on said lower belts for shingle travel therealong; and a pair of vertically oriented horizontal pinch rolls positioned downstream of initial pulleys for said lower belts that assure separation of the cut shingle from a cutoff cylinder and pulleys for said upper belts and said lower belts for accelerating the speed of said shingles passing through said assembly and a lower clamp roller bearing against a pulley that stretches the upper and lower belts between it and the acceleration rollers to accelerate the shingle in the acceleration rollers to a new speed.