Material or article handling – Apparatus for charging a load holding or supporting element... – Load holding or supporting element including gripping means
Patent
1985-09-24
1987-08-11
Spar, Robert J.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for charging a load holding or supporting element...
Load holding or supporting element including gripping means
414222, 414223, 901 7, B65H 100
Patent
active
046858504
ABSTRACT:
A tool and workpiece change system adapted to a machining center with a tool magazine and a pallet pool having a pallet change station and a pallet loading and unloading station and associated with a pallet change apparatus for replacing a pallet on a worktable in the machining center with another pallet successively positioned at the pallet change station. The system comprises a replaceable hand support arranged adjacent the loading and unloading station to detachably support a first replaceable hand for grasping a workpiece and a second replaceable hand for grasping a cutting tool, a workpiece support arranged adjacent the hand support, a tool support arranged adjacent the workpiece support to detachably support a plurality of spare cutting tools, and a robot arranged to be movable between first and second spaced positions. The robot is equipped with the first replaceable hand in the first position for replacing a finished workpiece on a pallet unloaded to the loading and unloading station with a fresh workpiece on the workpiece support and is further equipped with the second replaceable hand in the first position and moved to the second position for replacing a defective or damaged cutting tool in the tool magazine with a spare cutting tool of the same type on the tool support.
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Murata Kazushi
Nakamura Hiroshi
Ohta Takeshi
Alexander Jay I.
Spar Robert J.
Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha
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