摘要 |
<p>A manufacturing and packaging arrangement for cards, especially playing cards, includes a sheet cutting and card stacking station, two corner punching stations, and a packaging stations which are connected with one another by a conveyor arrangement that is driven by a motor. In the cutting and stacking station, printed sheets are cut up into individual cards and those cards which belong to respective sets are assembled into respective card stacks which are then discharged from the cutting and stacking station by a discharge arrangement and transferred by a transfer conveyor to an intermittently driven main conveyor. At the main conveyor, the individual card stacks are engaged by entraining fingers which extend into a transporting channel, and are intermittently transported longitudinally of the channel to the corner punching stations. A translationally displaceable supply and return conveyor moves and card stacks transversely to the main conveyor into and out of the respective corner punching station during the time periods of standstill of the main conveyor, for the arcuate punching of two corners of the card stack in each instance. At the downtream end of the main conveyor, the card stacks are transferred by an additional transfer conveyor to the packaging station. The various stations and conveyors are jointly driven by a single motor and synchronizing transmissions.</p> |