Sector of automatic production line

Details Sector of automatic production line Sector of automatic production line

1976-05-05

1978-07-04

Simpson, Othell M.

Metal working

Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...

With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station...

29 33P, 82 27, B23B 2500, B23P 2306

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040979849

ABSTRACT:
Workpiece blanks to be machined are transported on a conveyor past a bank of machine tools operating in parallel, each blank resting on an individual carriage which is slippably entrained by the conveyor so as to be arrestable at a stop in line with a machine tool by an escapement-type rocker in response to a signal from a sensing switch detecting the presence of such a blank on an arriving carriage. A gantry-type manipulator picks up the blank and delivers it to the associated machine tool while removing therefrom a workpiece already machined and depositing it on the waiting carriage in a position laterally offset from the one previously occupied by the blank. Another sensing switch at each stop, upon detecting the presence of a workpiece already machined on a carriage, lets that carriage continue on its way without actuation of the corresponding manipulator.

REFERENCES:
patent: RE25886 (1965-10-01), Cargill
patent: 3400618 (1968-09-01), Steinmetz
patent: 3543392 (1970-12-01), Perry et al.

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