B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
270/138
B65G 47/24 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1187122
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A sheet handling apparatus and method for transferring horizontally oriented sheet articles from one location to another in an automated production line facility. The apparatus includes a vertically reciprocal elevator mounted on a horizontally reciprocal carriage and provided with a sheet pick-up head including grippers engageable with and disengageable from the opposed marginal edges of one or more superimposed sheet articles. The apparatus is especially suited for precisely placing paired sheets of glass on bending molds advanced on a conveyor system beneath the pick-up head. Means are provided for positioning and locking the molds in position on the conveyor system in vertical registry with the pick-up head.
398532
Bresnahan Roger M.
Jepson Paul D.
Libbey-Owens-Ford Co.
Macrae & Co.
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