Plastic article forming and handling system

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR FORMING ARTICLES FROM A PLASTIC WEB, DESLIVERING, AND STACKING THE PLASTIC ARTICLES, INCLUDING PLASTIC WEB SUPPLY MEANS, RECIPROCABLE PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL FORMING PRESS MEANS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE PLASTIC WEB FROM SSAID SUPPLY MEANS AND REPEATEDLY FORM SPACED THREE DIMENSIONAL ARTICLES INTO THE WEB AND PERIPHERALLY CREASE THE ARTICLES, MEANS FOR INTERMITTENTLY PULLING THE WEB AND FORMED ARTICLES FROM SAID FORMING MEANS AND FOR SEPARATING THE ARTICLES FROM THE WEB MATRIX, ARTICLE DESLIVER MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF SAID WEB PULLING AND ARTICLE SEPARATING MEANS, AND RECIPROCABLE ARTICLE STACKING MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF SAID DESLIVER MEANS, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING: FIRST ARTICLE FEED REGULATING MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF SAID WEB PULLING AND ARTICLE SEPARATING MEANS, AND UPSTREAM OF SAID DESLIVER MEANS, INCLUDING FIRST CONSTANTLY DRIVEN ARTICLE ADVANCING BELT MEANS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE, SUPPORT, AND ADVANCE ARTICLES SEPARATED FROM THE WEB, AND INCLUDING ARTICLE STOPPING AND RELESING GATE MEANS; POSITIVE, CONTINUOUS DRIVING ACTING ARTICLE PUSHING MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF SPACED ARTICLE PUSHING MEANS TO RECEIVE ARTICLES IN SPACED REGULATED FASHION FROM SAID FIRST REGULATING MEANS AND TO POSITIVELY AND CONTINUOUSLY PUSH THEM IN A PATH PAST SAID ARTICLE DESLIVER MEANS; CONTROL MEANS OPERBLY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID ARTICLE PUSHING MEANS AND SAID GATE MEANS TO OPERATE SAID GATE MEANS IN SYNCHRONISM WITH SAID PUSHING MEANS; AND SECOND ARTICLE FEED REGULATING MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF SAID DESLIVER MEANS AND ARTICLE PUSHING MEANS AND INCLUDING SECOND ARTICLE ADVANCING CONSTANTLY DRIVEN BELT MEANS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE ARTICLES FROM SAID PUSHING MEANS, AND SECOND ARTICLE STOPPING AND RELEASING GATE MEANS TO ALLOW ADVANCEMENT OF THE DESLIVERED ARTICLES IN INTERMITTENT, SPACED, REGULATED FASHION TO SAID STACKING MEANS.