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Abstract

A magazine for the maturation of cakes of synthetic foam material, for a plant served by a conveyor belt bringing the cakes for distribution in the magazine, and by an overhead crane with a gripper intended for lifting a cake from the belt conveyor, for shifting it laterally and for depositing the same into a maturation space, which comprises stands arranged parallel to and at the side of the belt conveyor; each stand comprises a frame which supports a fixed lower shelf whose width and length are adapted to the width and length of the cakes to be received, and above the fixed shelf, at vertical mutual distances somewhat greater than the height of the cakes to be received, a plurality of movable shelves for receiving the cakes; each movable shelf is shiftable between a working position, in which it constitutes a surface whose width and length are adapted to the width and length of the cakes to be received, and a rest position, in which it leaves free the access from above to the shelf lying below. The rest position of the movable shelves is preferably arranged below the fixed shelf.

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