Apparatus for moving strips using mechanical manipulator

Details Apparatus for moving strips using mechanical manipulator Apparatus for moving strips using mechanical manipulator

1985-04-15

1987-04-14

Valenza, Joseph E.

Material or article handling

Device for emptying portable receptacle

Nongravity type

1984682, 271 69, 271308, 271312, 2941031, 414741, 901 7, 901 39, B65G 6500

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046574662

ABSTRACT:
In the commercial production of licorice bites, each about 1 inch long, a group of extruded 54-inch licorice strips are lifted by a programmable controlled robot from the discharge end of a lower conveyor and deposited at the input end of an upper conveyor which carries the strips to a cutting station. The robot hand has a lower stainless steel blade for insertion under the group of licorice strips to wedge the sticky strips from a board on which they are being carried by the lower conveyor. The robot hand includes an upper bar having a food-grade rubber undersurface. The bar is lowered relative to the blade after insertion of the blade under the licorice strips, thereby clamping the strips between the lowered bar and the blade. The arm of the robot then lifts the hand and clamped group of licorice strips and deposits the front ends of the strips at the input of the upper conveyor.

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