| 摘要 |
A series of moving articles (brick or slug-sized) is supplied to an accumulating apparatus adapted to engage the articles so as to slow their further movement thereby causing them to accumulate in a closed up formation. A sensor detects the accumulation of a predetermined length comprising at least one such article on the accumulating apparatus whereupon a control signal is generated causing a clamping or transfer control means to temporarily prevent further supply of the articles onto the accumulating apparatus and a further conveyor is caused to cooperate with the accumulating apparatus to transport the thus separated predetermined lengths of articles onto a push-off station. Here, the predetermined length is pushed onto other apparatus for accumulating the predetermined lengths into flats of bricks, facing those bricks into double layered flats, grouping the double layered flats, gripping and stacking them such as, for instance, in hacking freshly cut bricks for firing in a kiln. If the articles are slug-sized rather than already cut bricks, a side cutting station is disposed opposite the pusher station so that the slug sized blocks are automatically cut into brick sized articles as they are pushed off the pushing station into the accumulating, facing, layering, grouping, gripping and stacking apparatus.
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