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Assembly station with rotatable turret which forms and unloads a completed stack of articles

  • US 20030044267A1
  • Filed: 03/26/2002
  • Published: 03/06/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for forming and unloading a stack of articles, comprising:

  • a first article feeder station which sequentially provides a plurality of first articles at a first loading position;

    a second article feeder station which sequentially provides a plurality of second articles at a second loading position;

    a turret assembly; and

    a stacker arm which projects from the turret assembly, wherein the turret assembly rotates the stacker arm to the first loading position to load a selected first article onto the stacker arm, advances the stacker arm to the second loading position to load a selected second article onto the stacker arm, and then rotates the stacker arm to an unloading position to concurrently unload the first and second selected articles from the stacker arm.

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