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A pallet feeder for a manufacturing plant or fabrication system wherein pallets are fed along a substantially circular-shaped track or path of travel. A number of transfer stations or locations are provided at which the pallets are infed and outfed essentially at right angles to the circular-shaped

A pallet feeder for a manufacturing plant or fabrication system wherein pallets are fed along a substantially circular-shaped track or path of travel. A number of transfer stations or locations are provided at which the pallets are infed and outfed essentially at right angles to the circular-shaped conveying path or track. At the center of the circular-shaped pallet feeder there is located a pallet displacement device which is pivotable about the axis of the circular-shaped track into a position coacting with the different transfer stations or locations, in order to be able to move the pallets towards and away from the conveying or conveyor track.

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A pallet feeder for a fabrication system having a pallet feed along a substantially circular-shaped path of travel, comprising: support means defining a substantially circular-shaped track; rotatable platform means mounted on said circular-shaped track for feeding said pallets along a substantially

A pallet feeder for a fabrication system having a pallet feed along a substantially circular-shaped path of travel, comprising: support means defining a substantially circular-shaped track; rotatable platform means mounted on said circular-shaped track for feeding said pallets along a substantially circular-shaped path of travel; pallet receivers fixed on said rotatable platform means; pallet guide means arranged on said pallet receivers and directed essentially perpendicular to the feed direction of said pallets; means for rotating said rotatable platform means with said pallet receivers into a number of transfer positions and onto which pallet receivers said pallets can be automatically shifted in the direction of said pallet guide means; a pallet thrust drive arranged substantially at the center of said pallet feeder; means rotatably mounting said pallet thrust drive for movement into a number of angular positions about an essentially vertical axis and independent of the movement of said rotatable platform means; and said pallet thrust drive being effective to engage a pallet arranged on said pallet guide means of said pallet receiver located in a transfer position for displacing said pallet in the feed direction.