Method and apparatus for collecting plates

专利名称：Method and apparatus for collecting plates发明人：Normand Croteau,Fergus M.

Groundwater,Jean Guy Caron

申请号：US08/635797申请日：19960422公开号：US056697A公开日：19970923

摘要：A method and an apparatus for collecting plates from two rows of platestravelling side-by-side on a moving conveyor comprising inverting plates sequentially inone row of plates and merging said two rows of plates by depositing a plate from onerow onto a plate in the other row to form a single row of double plates each having aninverted plate, and assembling a single row of said double plates into stacks. The doubleplates are assembled into stacks preferably by shingling the double plates to assemble aplurality of overlapped double plates, stacking shingled double plates to form

horizontal stacks, turning each horizontal stack onto a side or end of the stack to form avertically- stacked bundle, and rocking the vertically-stacked bundle on the side or endto align the plates on the side or end, rotating the bundle vertically through 90. degree.onto an adjacent end or side, and rocking the bundle on the adjacent end or side to alignthe plates on the adjacent end or side, whereby the plates form a squared bundle havingeven sides and ends. In one embodiment the plates are lead alloy battery plate

electrodes each having a tab extending from a side edge thereof, the two rows of platesare travelling side-by-side on a first conveyor with the tabs of one row of plates facingthe tabs of the other row of plates, the plates in one row of plates are inverted by

passing the plates sequentially over an endless belt having an upper moving surfaceturning from a substantially horizonal plane through about 90° to a substantially verticalplane at a linear speed effective to turn the plates upside down onto a second conveyor,and the two rows of plates are merged by transferring one row of plates onto a diagonalconveyor intersecting the second conveyor and controlling the relative speeds of thesecond conveyor and diagonal conveyor whereby each plate on one conveyor is

deposited on a plate of the other conveyor to form a pair of double plates with the tabsof the two plates at least partially overlapping each other.

申请人：ADVANCED DYNAMICS CORPORATION LTD.

代理人：Arne I. Fors

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