Conveyors: power-driven – With means to facilitate working – treating – or inspecting... – Means engaging conveyor or load on a conveyor to align load...
Patent
1980-08-04
1983-02-01
Kashnikow, Andres
Conveyors: power-driven
With means to facilitate working, treating, or inspecting...
Means engaging conveyor or load on a conveyor to align load...
198472, B65G 2120
Patent
active
043710751
ABSTRACT:
A reusable universal modular unit, which may be used alone or in combination with one or more similar units to form a production line, is provided for facilitating manual and/or mechanized work or assembly operations on a product supported on a carrier having a reusable standardized base section and an expendable component supporting nest section. Each modular unit includes a work table having at least one work station thereon, a self-contained conveyor for transporting carriers to and away from the work station and a carrier handling system at each work station for disengaging a carrier from the conveyor, locating and locking it at a fixed work position to facilitate assembly operations and for thereafter reengaging the carrier with the conveyor for transport away from the work station. A production line of any suitable length is formed by arranging the units serially in end-to-end relation. Provisions are made for easily adding accumulator units at selected locations along the line.
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Kashnikow Andres
Polaroid Corporation
Sobel Paul A.
Vale John S.
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