Flat Sheet Right Angle Transfer and Stack System

High Speed, High Capacity Plate Stacker

This system is designed to handle copper clad panels, preserving surface quality while it transports and stacks the panels. The system does not stop when a stack is complete - it inserts temporary fingers to build a partial stack, lowers the completed stack, ejects the completed stack, then raises the main stack fingers to pick up the partial stack.

We built this system to help our customer transfer a large quantity of press plates in and out of a layup operation for producing copper clad laminate. Extreme care is taken in the design of the vacuum platen and the lift and lower cycle on the stacker to prevent surface damage to the highly polished plates. This system is also capable of high transfer rates and has multiple stop positions so that it can unstack and insert new plates while removing old plates to a stack without slowing the manufacturing process.