APPARATUS FOR MARKING AND ORDERING PLATE BLANKS, AND LOAD AND RECEIVING MAGAZINES THEREFOR

摘要

An apparatus for marking indicia on a plate blank where plate blanks are successively presented from a load magazine and moved to a printing station where the indicia is marked thereon and produce a finished plate. The finished plate is then moved into a receiving magazine where it is added to a stack of previously finished plates in a predetermined order corresponding the order in which the finished plates are produced. Also provided herein as a load magazine for presenting and having dispensed therefrom successive single plate blanks at a load magazine opening and a receiving magazine for receiving and stacking finished plates in a predetermined order.

主权项

1. An apparatus for feeding successive plate blanks through an indicia marking process so as to produce finished plates stacked and ordered in a receiving magazine, the apparatus comprising:
a load magazine operably configured to hold a plurality of plate blanks and successively present a single plate blank at a load magazine opening thereof; and an actuator arm operable to interact with said single plate blank at said opening to linearly move said single plate blank along a travel path through the indicia marking process to successively produce the finished plates, and successively deliver the finished plates into the receiving magazine via a receiving magazine opening thereof such that the finished plates are successively inserted in order into the receiving magazine adjacent previously finished plates maintained in the receiving magazine so as to form the stack of finished plates.