Apparatus and method for feeding and conveying items

One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a stacking device including a conveyor belt (105) configured to move one or more items towards a receiving storage hopper (125) configured to receive the one or more items from the conveyor belt. The one or more items may form a stack (124) of item...

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Hauptverfasser:	HARRINGTON, MICHAEL, WILKINSON, RICHARD W, CLEVELAND, AARON, BATRIN, MARIUS, ALLEN, ROBERT M
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	CONVEYING HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS STORING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a stacking device including a conveyor belt (105) configured to move one or more items towards a receiving storage hopper (125) configured to receive the one or more items from the conveyor belt. The one or more items may form a stack (124) of items in the receiving storage hopper. The stacking device may further include a sensing device (117) configured to determine a level of the stack of items in the receiving storage hopper. The stacking device may be configured to adjust a height of the conveyor belt relative to the storage hopper based on the level of the stack of items in the receiving storage hopper.