Package making – Aids to manual packing
Patent
1999-07-27
2000-10-24
Vo, Peter
Package making
Aids to manual packing
53391, 414743, 254 8R, B65B 6700
Patent
active
061348627
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to apparatus for resenting and orienting a stock box for removing or receiving articles.
2. Background of the Invention
A particular but non-exclusive application of the apparatus lies in supplying boxes of parts to work stations beside an assembly line.
Particularly in the automobile industry field, there are to be found numerous assembly stations where operators need to take parts from boxes containing them for the purpose of mounting the parts on the motor vehicle that is being assembled.
The boxes are generally of large size and are fixed to a pallet.
When the boxes are placed on the ground, the operator must, on each occasion, bend down to remove a part. As the box empties, the movement that needs to be performed becomes more and more tiring.
In addition, once the box is empty, it must be replaced with another box, and that takes time. Naturally, another solution consists in providing a second box that is full of parts, placed beside the first. Nevertheless, it will be understood that under such circumstances, a certain amount of working space is wasted pointlessly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to mitigate those drawbacks.
More precisely, the invention seeks to propose apparatus for presenting and orienting a stock box for removing or receiving articles, and that is advantageous, ergonomically speaking, i.e. the operator no longer needs to bend down to remove the articles or to put them into place.
An appliance of this type is described in document U.S. Pat. No. 2,942,716. It relates to apparatus for presenting and orienting a stock box for removing or receiving articles, which apparatus comprises a pivoting box support which is movable both ways between a low position and a high position, via an intermediate position in which the support is inclined relative to the horizontal. The support is hinged along one of its sides, while being fixed on its opposite side to a set of cables passing over return pulleys.
The cables are displaced over the pulleys by a system of vertical axis actuators having rods that carry respective main pulleys. It is the movement of the rods that causes the cables to move relative to the pulleys.
The invention also seeks to provide apparatus which, for given size, combines both a station for putting full boxes into position and a station for removing empty boxes (or vice versa).
Finally, the invention seeks to provide apparatus of a design that is simple and easy to use.
According to the invention, the apparatus comprises a pair of parallel hinged arms which are extended by a pivoting box support, the hinged arms being movable both ways between a low position and a high position, in both of which positions the support is substantially horizontal, thereby enabling the box to be placed on the support or to be removed therefrom, the arms moving via an intermediate position in which the support is inclined relative to the horizontal and facilitates access to the inside of the box to remove said articles or to put them into place, and by the fact that said arms have respective engagement fingers at their free ends suitable for co-operating with respective studs secured to the support to lock mutual hinging between the arms and the support from a certain angle, thereby enabling the support and the associated box to be brought into the position where they are inclined relative to the horizontal.
Although reference is made above to the automobile industry, the apparatus of the invention can be used in any industry where there is a need to supply a production line with individual articles. For example, that can be the farm-produce industry, electronics, etc. The invention is also applicable in any activity where it is necessary to place articles one by one in a box. This also applies to the food industry.
Furthermore, according to other characteristics that are advantageous but not limiting: when the box is transferred upwards, and acting as means for slowing down an
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Atlas S.A.
Harmon Christopher
Vo Peter
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