Chucks or sockets – With fluid-pressure actuator – Pneumatic type
Patent
1998-01-27
1999-08-31
Bishop, Steven C.
Chucks or sockets
With fluid-pressure actuator
Pneumatic type
279 412, 279119, 279123, 901 37, B23B 31175, B23B 3130
Patent
active
059443260
ABSTRACT:
Pinching of the fingers of an air chuck is prevented during opening or closing in order to allow them to open or close smoothly and to miniaturize the air chuck. In a linear guide air chuck having a rod that is operated by an air cylinder mechanism; a pair of fingers is provided that can be opened and closed to grip a workpiece; a guide mechanism moves the fingers linearly to open or close them; and a pair of levers convert operation of the rod into the opening and closing operation of both fingers the lever and finger being coupled together by fitting a spherical engagement element formed on the lever so, in a circular engagement hole cut in the top surface of the finger, at a position at which the acting force of the lever can be transmitted to the finger at nearly the same height as that of the guide mechanism.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2775461 (1956-12-01), Ehrlich et al.
patent: 3085813 (1963-04-01), Sampson
patent: 3251606 (1966-05-01), Oswald et al.
patent: 4892344 (1990-01-01), Takada et al.
Hosono Masayuki
Ishibashi Koichiro
Takada Susumu
Bishop Steven C.
SMC Corporation
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