BATTERY PLATE FEEDING AND HANDLING APPARATUS

摘要

A plate feeding and handling apparatus (10) that includes: an improved plate feeder (32) and pick-up (36) that more effectively feed and remove plates from a stack of plates; an improved lugbrush cleaning mechanism (18) that more effectively holds and cleans the lugs on the plates; a plate alignment station (24) that allows an operator to more easily align the plates; a plate rejection station (28) that more rapidly and accurately rejects plates that have been determined to be defective or otherwise damaged; and a plate synchronization assembly (30) that allows the normal rapid transport of the battery plates to be temporarily suspended so that time-consuming processes occuring downstream can be completed.