Lamination stacking apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR RESTING C-TYPE ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTOR CORE LAMINATIONS COMPRISING: A NESTING TABLE; A PLATFORM FROM WHICH SAID NESTING TABLE IS SUPPORTED; AN INCREMENT HEAD RIDING ON SAID PLATFORM; A LAMINATION TRANSFER ASSEMBLY RECIPROCABLY SUPPORTED FROM SAID INCREMENT HEAD AND INCLUDING TRANSFER JAWS MOVABLE OVER SAID TABLE; LAMINATION HOLDING ASSEMBLY SUPPORTED FROM SAID INCREMENT HEAD AND INCLUDING HOLDING JAWS DISPOSED ADJACENT TO SAID TRANSFER JAWS; MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID LAMINATION TRANSFER ASSEMBLY TO ADVANCE SAID TRANSFER JAWS TO OBTAIN A LAMINATION AND TO RETURN THEREWITH, DELIVERING THE LAMINATION TO SAID NESTING TABLE AND TO SAID HOLDING JAWS OF SAID LAMINATION HOLDING ASSEMBLY; CAM MEANS ON SAID HEAD ADAPTED TO OPERATE SAID HOLDING JAWS; MEANS ON SAID PLATFORM ADAPTED TO OPERATE SAID TRANSFER JAWS; AND MEANS FOR DISPACING SAID INCREMENT HEAD, AFTER EACH RECIPROCATION OF SAID LAMINATION TRANSFER ASSEMBLY, SIMULTANEOUSLY IN BOTH A HORIZONTAL AND A VERTICAL PLANE A DISTANCE EQUAL TO THE THICKNESS OF A LAMINATION WHEREBY SAID LAMINATION TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND SAID LAMINATION HOLDING ASSEMBLY, BOTH SUPPORTED THEREFROM, ARE SIMILARLY DISPLACED AND SAID PLATFORM ON WHICH SAID INCREMENT HEAD RIDES IS DISPLACED IN THE VERTICAL PLANE A DISTANCE EQUALL TO THE THICKNESS OF A LAMINATION TO SIMILARLY DISPLACE SAID NESTING TABLE SUPPORTED THEREFROM, WHEREBY THE LOCI OF THE NESTING TABLE, THE TRANSFER JAWS AND THE HOLDING JAWS WITH RESPECT TO ONE ANOTHER AND THE LAMINATIONS BEING ASSEMBLED IN SUCH THAT NESTING OF SUCCESSIVE LAMINATIONS MAY BE EFFECTED.