(under subclass 401) Devices provided with means to collect temporarily a reserve supply of discrete workpieces, from which supply said discrete workpieces are to be separated and moved to a cutting zone.
(1) Note. Included herein are patents disclosing hoppers, work-storage magazines, and gravity feed chutes, serving to hold a reserve of work which is to be cut.
(2) Note. Included herein are patents disclosing means to insure that only one workpiece at a time is moved from the supply of workpieces.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
281, for means to pick an article from a pack or stack and present such an article to a subclass 202 type of tool.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
221, Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for hoppers and means to dispense articles therefrom. 271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering, appropriate subclasses, for hoppers and means to feed sheets therefrom.
