BRICK HANDLING AND STACKING MACHINE

摘要

A machine for handling bricks or the like is disclosed. The machine functions to grip grids including a plurality of spaced and parallel double lines of brick located within stacks on a kiln car and to position such grids on first conveyor means. These conveyor means deliver the grids to a spreader which spreads the grids into double rows with one brick resting upon another. An inverter transfer grips the upper rows and transfers them in their spread condition to a laterally spaced location. The separated or spread rows are then delivered by second conveyor means to a stacker which operates to simultaneously form a stack on a stacking elevator corresponding to each row. The stacks are then moved out of the stacker for subsequent processing leaving the stacker free for subsequent stacking. Each subassembly simultaneously handles a number of brick substantially equal to the number of brick in a grid thereby providing high machine outputs with relatively slow subassembly cyclic rates.