ROTARY CONVEYING DEVICE

• Main Authors: SHIRAISHI MOTOATSU, WAKABAYASHI YOZO, KIYAMA HIROSHI, TAZO TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.02.1990
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOTDIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT; CONVEYING; DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g.ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; HAND TOOLS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OFPARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

PURPOSE:To enable receipt of a work from a carry-in station to a processing station simultaneously with receipt of a work from a processing station to a delivery station by a method wherein grasping members for feed and grasping members for delivery, arranged in a radial manner, are positioned reciprocatively rotatably. CONSTITUTION:Grasping members (G1, G3) (G2, G4) are rotated in a state that unprocessed works W on a carry-in station C1 are grasped by the grasping members G1 and G3 for feed and processed works W on processing stations PL and PR are grasped by the grasping members G2 and G4 for delivery. Rotation of the grasping members causes the feed of the unprocessed work W to the processing stations PL and PR. And simultaneous delivery of the processed work W to a delivery station C2. Grasping claws 22a and 22b of each of the grasping members are interlocked and coupled to the mating claws of the adjoining grasping member through respective links 24 and pinions, and the claws are simultaneously opened and closed by means of a common drive source.