Conveyors: power-driven – With means to facilitate working – treating – or inspecting...
Patent
1980-09-12
1983-01-25
Love, John J.
Conveyors: power-driven
With means to facilitate working, treating, or inspecting...
198486, 414225, 414744A, 414753, B65G 4704
Patent
active
043698727
ABSTRACT:
An assembly line comprises a succession of work stations and a conveyor transporting workpieces from, to and between the stations. A mechanism is associated with each work station for handling a respective workpiece and includes a plurality of rectilinear guide tracks extending at an angle to each other, a gripping element movable along the guide tracks and a drive associated with the guide tracks for moving the workpiece between a first working position within the range of the conveyor and a second working position spaced therefrom. A first one of the guide tracks extends parallel to the elongated guide for the conveyor and two additional guide tracks extend, respectively, in a plane parallel to the plane defined by the elongated conveyor guide and transversely thereto, and the other additional guide track extends in a plane perpendicular thereto. A control operates the drives in a programmed sequence.
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Kelman Kurt
Love John J.
Watts Douglas D.
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