CONVEYANCE UNIT, TRANSFER MECHANISM AND PROCESSING SYSTEM

• Main Author: UNO TSUTOMU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 23.04.2020
• Subjects: CONVEYING; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; RAILWAY SYSTEMS; RAILWAYS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

To provide a conveyance device capable of further efficiently conveying articles between a plurality of stations.SOLUTION: A conveyance unit 15 comprises a conveying rail 130, a conveyor 150 traveling along the conveying rail 130 to convey articles W, a pallet 110 supported by the conveyor 150 in a state of mounting the articles W and conveyed between a plurality of stations 11 and 13, and a transfer device 100 constituted so as to transfer the pallet 110 to the conveyor 150 inside the stations 11 and 13. The transfer device 100 includes a support body 102 for supporting the pallet 110, a rail member 103 fixed to the support body 102 and extending in a transferring direction of the pallet 110, and a traveling body 104 traveling on the rail member 103; the traveling body 104 includes an engaging part 104e selectively engaging with a part 112 to be engaged of the pallet 110 to push or pull the pallet 110 in an engaging state of the engaging part 104e and the part 112 to be engaged.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】複数のステーション間で物品をより効率的に搬送することができる搬送装置を提供する。【解決手段】搬送ユニット１５は、搬送レール１３０と、該搬送レール１３０に沿って走行し、物品Ｗを搬送する搬送体１５０と、物品Ｗを載置した状態で搬送体１５０に支持され、複数のステーション１１，１３の間で搬送されるパレット１１０と、ステーション１１，１３の内部において、パレット１１０を搬送体１５０に対して受け渡し可能に構成された移載装置１００とを備える。移載装置１００は、パレット１１０を支持する支持体１０２と、該支持体１０２に固定され、パレット１１０の受け渡し方向に延びるレール部材１０３と、該レール部材１０３を走行する走行体１０４とを備える。走行体１０４は、パレット１１０の被係合部１１２に選択的に係合する係合部１０３ｅを有し、係合部１０３ｅと被係合部１１２との係合状態の下でパレット１１０を押進又は牽引する。【選択図】図１