Plant for automatically stacking and orderly arranging packs of panels of different sizes

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The plant according to the invention causes the packs of panels coming from the dividing machine to reach a first transport runway, said packs being arranged either side by side or in end-to-end sequence depending upon their size and stacking requirements. Ranged on a line beside said runway, there are lifting platforms to which the packs are supplied by common means and onto which there are stacked packs of panels of the same size. Thereafter suitable means will transfer the stacks of panels to stations adjacent said lifting platforms where said stacks are orderly arranged either end to end or if, desired, side by side to form parallelepiped assemblies which are then transferred to a …