Modular gripper
Modular gripper
US Patènt # 6863323
| Invèntors: | Neveu; Dominique (Creron, FR) |
| Assignee: | AMG (Grossoeuvre, FR) |
| Appl. No.: | 058075 |
| Filed: | January 29, 2002 |
ABSTRACT
This gripper is designed to transport all types of materials, metal, cardboard, glass, plastic, wood in all types of industries. It is comprised of several types of profile sections, made of aluminum, for example, as well as several types of mechanical pieces made of a light metal alloy, which, by their shapes, can be mounted quickly and transport pieces of all shapes. This gripper consists of a central core and profile sections fitted to be affixed perpendicularly onto this central core, mechanisms to affix these profile sections at the desired position, and ball and socket bearings mounted to the ends of these profile sections. Air chokes are affixed to the ends of the ball joints, which make possible an angular clearance of the air chokes.
The object of the invèntion presented here is a gripper provided with air chokes using vacuum suction, capable of transporting various materials or objects, in particular, made of metal, cardboard, glass, wood in all types of industries.
RELATED ART
The manufacture of these grippers is generally performed in a non-industrial manner, differing according to the industrial environment, often out of welded steel tubes, always at the last minute, from a prototype of the piece to be transported, and designed by the maintenance departments of factories.
Grippers of this type are known, for example, from the patènt FR-A 2 566 310 and from the patènt EP 0 802 334. The standardization of these grippers is not a priority and is not the object of research as far as productivity is concerned.
