Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit – System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
Patent
1982-06-21
1984-12-25
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
198345, 198648, 414223, 414417, B65G 3700
Patent
active
044898215
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for feeding workpieces to a workpiece gripping position of a hand of an industrial robot, especially a workpiece feeder used for a limited axis robot, comprising a conveyor which is mounted on a table and has a plurality of pallets, the workpieces placed on the pallets moved intermittently to a predetermined area of the robot, characterized in that the table has a window, that each of the pallets comprises a lower plate having a central opening and an upper plate mounted on the lower plate, and that there is provided a lifting means movable vertically through the window in the table and the central opening in the lower plate, causing the upper plate to move and to lift the workpiece placed on the upper plate up to a workpiece gripping position of a hand of the robot.
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Inaba Hajimu
Torii Nobutoshi
Fujitsu Fanuc Limited
Holmes Jonathan D.
Spar Robert J.
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