Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
Patent
1990-11-02
1991-09-03
Howell, Daniel W.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
294 864, 901 30, B23Q 3155
Patent
active
050440632
ABSTRACT:
An assembly of three major components including a wrist interface plate which is secured to the wrist joint of a robotic arm, a tool interface plate which is secured to each tool intended for use by the robotic arm, and a tool holster for each tool attached to the interface plate. The wrist interface plate and a selected tool interface plate are mutually connectable together through an opening or recess in the upper face of the interface plate by means of a notched tongue protruding from the front face of the wrist interface plate which engages a pair of spring-biased rotatable notched wheels located within the body of the tool interface plate. The tool holster captures and locks onto the tool interface plate by means of a pair of actuation claws including a locking tab and an unlocking wedge which operate respective actuation bosses on each of the notched wheels in response to a forward and backward motion of the tool interface plate as a result of motion of the robotic arm to either park the tool or use the tool.
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Adams Harold W.
Clohan, Jr. Paul S.
Howell Daniel W.
Marchant R. Dennis
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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