Angular shaped steel rod layer forming and stacking with occasional layer inversion

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus for automatically stacking steel shapes preferably, steel angles, comprises an endless conveyor running obliquely towards the traveling direction a, member provided above the conveyor at a proper distance to form a passage, this member serving to prevent steel shapes from overlapping, a stand-by stop lever for keeping steel shapes stopped at an intermediate part of the conveyor, assorting stop levers disposed so as to protect from a part of the passage upstream from the stand-by stop lever, a take-out stop member for stopping the steel shapes being conveyed upon retraction of the stand-by stop lever, a stacking lifter located downstream of the conveyor with a certain distance …