MATERIALS HANDLING DEVICE

摘要

A handling apparatus for piling and stacking lengths of ferromagnetic material, for example rolled steel sections, is based on a conveyor running from a loading station at which the sections are loaded crosswise to an unloading station at which they are stripped from the conveyor and piled or stacked. Between the two stations can be magnetic means for inverting selected sections to enable an interlocking pile to be formed. Stripping and piling at the unloading station is accomplished by an electromagnet which accepts each section from the conveyor, rotates to position the section above the pile, and is de-energized to drop the section in position.