Appeal No. 96-0425 Page 8
Application No. 08/108,986
of products on said supporting means to be commensurate
with the vertical portion of said end of said second
conveyor means; and
means for moving a stack of products between said
first conveyor means and said supporting means
simultaneously with the controlled motion of the
lowermost product of a stack between said supporting
means and said second conveyor means.
Hognestad discloses an apparatus for separating one or
more essentially thin and planar products (3), such as books,
periodicals and newspapers, from a stack (2) of such products.
As shown in Figure 1, the apparatus includes a gripping
arrangement (6) for gripping of at least one product (3) at a
time at the top of the stack (2), and for lateral movement of
the product to engagement with a further-feeding transport
apparatus (7), and a threshold construction (14) forming an
abutment against the products (3) below the product to be
separated at a time, and which has a slot opening (15) having
a height (H) allowing the passing of only said at least one
product at a time. The threshold construction (14) is
connected to a position sensor (20) sensing the top level of
the stack (2) and giving a signal to a regulator (5) and the
regulator controls a stack-supporting hoisting mechanism (1),
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