An apparatus and method for the separation of stacked roof cladding elements

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for separating individual stacked roofing panels during their manufacture. The invention is 5 particularly useful where the roofing panels have been profiled and cut to size using an angled cutting machine in accordance with their position on a roof. Because adjacent panels in the resulting stack are typically of different shapes and sizes, scratching and damage may result through contact between the cut edge which may have burrs and the surface of a further panel stacked there above or there beneath. 10 The application of a hot melt material to a surface of the panel adjacent cut edges prevents such contact. 6371226 1 (GHMatters) P98984.AL.1 JASMINS ~ '4 r 'a In 4(4~