Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines

Classification Context

Section:

PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

Class:

CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

Subclass:

HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

Child Classifications

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• B65H 5/02 by belts or chains
• B65H 5/04 by movable tables or carriages
• B65H 5/06 by rollers
• B65H 5/08 by grippers, e.g. suction grippers
• B65H 5/16 by pusher, needles, friction, or like devices adapted to feed single articles along a surface or table
• B65H 5/18 by rotary dials or tables
• B65H 5/2 by dropping-roller or like device
• B65H 5/22 by air-blast or suction device
• B65H 5/24 Feeding streams of overlapping articles
• B65H 5/26 Duplicate, alternate, selective, or coacting feeds
• B65H 5/28 Feeding articles stored in rolled or folded bands
• B65H 5/3 Opening devices for folded sheets or signatures
• B65H 5/32 Saddle-like members over which partially-unfolded sheets or signatures are fed to signature-gathering, stitching, or like machines
• B65H 5/34 Varying the phase of feed relative to the receiving machine
• B65H 5/36 Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation