摘要 |
A method and apparatus for feeding a sheet substack formed by one or a greater number of stacked sheets from a sheet stack, in particular feeding said sheets into a cutting saw from a feed station or similar unit, said feed station comprising a pusher for transferring said sheet substack from atop a sheet stack and a back gage or similar element, in which station at least one of the following, either the back gage or the sheet stack, or even both, is/are movable relative to each other in the vertical direction, in which method the sheet stack or the back gage, or both, is/are moved relative to each other in the vertical direction and the pusher is employed for pushing the sheet substack remaining above the upper edge of the back gage to further processing. The feed movement of the pusher is started before the leading edge of the sheet substack formed by one or a greater number of sheets is entirely elevated above the upper edge of the back gage, after which the back gage, or alternatively the sheet stack, or even both, is/are moved relative to each other in the vertical direction, until the sheet substack being fed is entirely above the upper edge of the back gage and the sheet substack of one or a greater number of sheets thus separable from the sheet stack is pushed by the pusher to further processing. |