Machine for slowing down a series of iron sheets travelling in close succession after each other along a production line

摘要

The machine (1) for slowing down a series of iron sheets (21) traveling in close succession after each other along a production line (26) is installed between a conveyor belt (30) and a collecting area or pit (31) destined to collect said sheets (21). The machine (1) slows down the sheets (21) incoming from the conveyor belt (30) before they bump into a stop shoulder (32) provided on a wall of the same collecting pit (31), thus preventing the iron sheets from being damaged by such an impact.;The machine (1) substantially comprises a pair of grooved-surface rubber-coated rolles (3,4) between which the sheet (21) to be slowed down runs. The sheet (21) runs between such rollers releasing its excess of kinetic energy without that relative slippings take place between the surfaces of the sheets (21) and of the rolls (3,4), and without that the trailing edge and the leading edge of two successive sheets (21) bump into each other.