Assembly for positioning planar workpieces with respect to one another

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In the automation of work operations in the manufacture of apparel, devices for picking up flat workpieces such as fabric pattern pieces comprise a plurality of magazine stations, at each of which is disposed a respective stack of workpieces, and a delivery station arranged in a row with the magazine stations. Each magazine station is assigned a respective separating device which lifts only the uppermost workpiece in the respective workpiece stack on the side thereof facing the delivery station. A foil-like carrier moved, linearly through the stations, travels at a magazine station between the workpiece stack and the workpiece which is lifted on one side and during this travel peels off the …