| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for assembling divisions for cartons, cases or the like from edge-slotted dividing sheets (A. B. Fig 1A) is disclosed. The apparatus includes guides 40, 46, which constrain transverse dividing sheets 13 fed from a hopper 12 to exit from the guides in a predetermined plane for engagement with the slots 70 of an array of axial dividing sheets 66 supported in guide channels. An indexing bar 175 mounted on a slidable carriage (168, Fig. 5) may be used to increment the dividing sheets 66 forwards beneath the guides 46 for insertion of further transverse sheets 13. The sheets 13 may be removed from the base of the hopper 12 by reciprocable suckers 38 and moved along the guides by a chain conveyor 20, 32 which cooperate with a pusher bar 60, the latter being relieved so as to clear the guides 46. <IMAGE> |
