| 摘要 |
<p>The invention is concerned with a method and an apparatus for stacking elongated bars whose widths are equal at most to a predetermined maximum bar width. A succession of the bars is fed to a pickup station with the bars generally coplanar, parallel, and in edge contact in the pickup station. A group of the bars is pickup from the station and the picked-up bars of the group are arrayed parallel to one another and on centers spaced apart substantially by the maximum bar width by first supporting the bars on at least two combs each having a plurality of formations complementary to the bars with each bar resting on one such formation of each comb and second by pivoting the combs about respective axes generally perpendicular to the group with the combs extending generally parallel to the group but transverse to the bars of the group. The picked up and arrayed bars are then deposited in a stacking station substantially without changing the spacing between them.</p> |
