Apparatus for stacking flat articles, preferably of double bags made ofplastic film

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus for stacking flat articles which, preferably consist of double bags which have been severed by, hot wire welding from a tubular or semitubular web of plastic film and which adjacent to their center line have openingdefining edges and by a transfer device preferably consisting of a so-called wicketer which has pairs of transfer arms arranged in a starlike configuration and rotating about a horizontal axis, are deposited in a stacking station on an endless stack conveyor, which comprises tensile means which, are trained around reversing pulleys and are intermittently driven, in which the stack conveyor comprises two spaced apart parallel, revolving belts or chains, the retaining …