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Edit: I say 70° because most of the guiding plates used in the production line there have an angle of 70 - 75°, it's just that I'm trying to figure out a math calculation why exactly that angle.

Ok I understand what you mean now but I assume the angle that the stack will lean, depends on the angle of the plate. The thing is also that the forks will not always be in the same position as before. It could be that the forklift operator lifts it up with one fork next to the wooden block. But...

I don't quite understand what you mean, is this information relevant to the problem? Let's say the pallets have enough space to move between the forks.

Yes, the destacking is done with pistons so it's comparable to that.

The dispenser is fully independent to this structure. It looks like that but it's done in a slight different way. Let's assume it's pre-aligning the pallets before they enter the dispenser.

Yes, so the red cross indicates where the forklift will be when dropping the pallets. He lifts the whole stack above the structure and lowers them behind the 2 plates as you can see. The thing is that the sides are not guided which let the stack end up as not being aligned sideways. After that...

@haruspex @berkeman: As Berkeman shows in the picture, the stack of pallets (15 euro pallets ~ 450 kg) is lowered and should be guided by the angled plates. The maximum displacement that the pallets can be in disorder (side ways) is around 10 cm. The forks are in the middle as shown in the picture.

Thanks! The pallets are guided with a forklift towards the conveyor. On the side of the forklift, the pallets are hold by 2 plates. The forks of the forklift can pass through it. The other side is fully open since the whole stack is guided towards a pallet dispenser. The only thing that can hold...

Homework Statement Image below is a sketch of the situation. A pallet is vertically moved towards the conveyor. The purpose is that this stack of pallets (about 15 pallets) gets guided by 2 plate structures so that the stack is ligned out. Homework Equations I'm wondering now what the optimal...