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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4636131 | Side shifter and narrow aisle attachment for a lift truck An attachment for lift trucks to enable the truck to work in narrow aisles and manipulate loads in front of and to both sides of the truck without turning the truck. A side shifter which includes a pair of parallel moving arms for supporting the load in w... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4611846 | Gripper head A gripper head for attachment to the Z axis shaft of a robot or a pick and place machine to pick up objects and position them on a workpiece, comprises a body from which projects a pair of gripping jaws which are slidable horizontally relative to the body... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4600358 | Manipulating device operating in two directions A two axes manipulating device is provided for the movement of work pieces between two arbitrary desired points in a plane. The device comprises a carriage with guide tracks for two axes disposed at a 90 degree angle relative to each other. The drive is p... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4577486 | Retracting mechanism and jaw assembly for a power press A jaw assembly is made retractable away from a power press in order to facilitate die change. A main carriage is cammed toward and away from the press dies in synchronism with the operation of the press. Mounted on the main carriage is a subcarriage which... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4573861 | Apparatus for feeding sheet metal elements to a bending An apparatus for feeding and rotating a sheet metal element comprises a frame and a carriage displaceably mounted on the frame for feeding the sheet metal element. The sheet metal element is selectively gripped in a predetermined plane by a non-rotatable ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4566848 | Device for positioning and orienting kinescopes A device for accurately positioning and orienting a kinescope at a preselected position includes a horizontally moveable but vertically fixed carriage which transports the envelope from a first loading position to a preselected position. A second carriage... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4565480 | Carousel pallet shuttle A pallet shuttle system for loading and unloading pallets from a plurality of pallet storage locations oriented in a circular arrangement, incorporates a centrally located rotatable support member, with a movable pallet shuttle thereon, the pallet shuttle... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4557663 | Modular, low cost, pogrammable assembly system A programmable assembly system for performing any of a variety of operations for different batch assemblies wherein at least some of the batches have different end points is obtained by using a limited capability, high reliable, high speed pick and place ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4548536 | Working apparatus with track following motion A working apparatus is provided with a head support horizontally pivotably carried by a link mechanism having first and second link elements, which mechanism is operable for horizontally freely moving the head support. The head support is provided with a ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4516900 | De-palletizer A de-palletizer for removing articles such as kegs or drums from a pallet utilizes a conveyor to move the pallets, one at a time, to an unloading station where a mechanism pushes the articles from the pallet on to a discharge table. The unloaded pallet is... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4503798 | Apparatus for removing fiber bales, in particular pressed bales of cotton Apparatus for removing fiber bales arranged in a row which includes a plurality of spaced generally vertically disposed supports, a pair of spaced generally parallel rails carried by these supports at positions spaced above a surface upon which the fiber ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4486928 | Apparatus for tool storage and selection A tool rest has a plurality of tool storage locations for tools used at a work station. The tool rest is stationary relative to the work station. An automated robotic arm transports a tool between the tool rest and the work station. The arm movement is pr... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4482289 | Robot hand of an industrial robot A robot hand of an industrial robot used as a manipulating device of a bar-like workpiece having a pair of gripping members attached to a base member and arranged so as to be slid toward and away from one another so that an appropriate distance between th... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4469362 | Gripper arrangement for a hoisting apparatus A gripper arrangement for a lifting or hoisting apparatus serves to transport workpieces having a journal or plug-like end. This gripper arrangement or gripper contains a housing in which two slides are essentially symmetrically arranged and radially disp... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4466770 | Robotic machine A robotic machine used in the automatic assembly of mechanical and electrical components is configured to assemble heavy parts at high speeds and is modular; there are one to four degrees of freedom. A motor assembly machine has X, Y, and Z movable axes a... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466769 | Industrial robot An industrial robot having a robot hand attached to a robot arm, a rotary motion unit supporting therein the robot arm, a vertical motion unit on which the rotary motion unit is disposed, and a vertical hollow structure extending through the vertical and ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4460302 | Handling equipment comprising a telescopic supporting assembly carrying a motorized orientation support for at least one articulated slave arm A handling equipment comprising a telescopic supporting assembly carrying a motorized orientation support for at least one articulated slave arm is disclosed. The orientation support includes a body pivotally mounted around a vertical axis at the end of t... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4449884 | Universal robot A universal robot comprising an X-axis arm (3) which is mounted on a post (1) through a support member (2) movable in the vertical direction and is tiltable into a desired position, and a Z-axis arm (6) which is mounted on a slider (5) movable along the X... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4439090 | Workpiece handling apparatus A workpiece handling apparatus includes a workpiece gripper having gripping elements and capable of both internal and external gripping functions rotatably attached to a support arm of a manipulation system. The workpiece gripper is controlled by an actua... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4432692 | Article handling apparatus An article handling apparatus includes a guide block which is supported on a base frame with freedom of movement in two dimensions. An article gripping attachment is mounted on the guide block which is further provided with a cam slot for defining the int... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4422487 | Multi-dog log carriage A rapidly adjustable, end-dogging log carriage for gripping and passing random-length logs through log processing equipment comprised of a plurality of longitudinally-spaced fixed dogs and one movable dog, independently movable with respect to the fixed d... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4420287 | Gripper feed and gripper resilience cylinders on forging manipulators A forging manipulator has a mobile truck on which a gripper support is suspended by articulated linkages. To move the gripper support relative to the truck, and to provide cushioning of the gripper support, the gripper support is coupled to the truck by h... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4398408 | Forging machine transfer A transfer for hot forging machines or the like is disclosed. Such transfer includes a gripper support structure including a housing providing a longitudinal bore in which spaced cylindrical sleeve bearings are mounted. A gripper support provides the cyli... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4359153 | Three axis transfer apparatus A transfer has gripper bars capable of grasping, lifting and transferring a work piece. The grasping and lifting motions are actuated by face cams. The face cams act through rocker arm linkages connected to rotatable rods having arms connected to the grip... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4319864 | Apparatus for producing rapid movement and smooth braking and a precisely defined final position of a movable robot arm A method and an apparatus for producing rapid movement and smooth braking and a precisely defined final position of a movable robot arm. For moving the robot arm from a first operative position to a second operative position the robot arm is first driven ... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4284381 | Method and apparatus for stacking blocks to form a pallet having predetermined spaces therein Apparatus for automatic packaging of products such as concrete blocks in pallets formed by stacking layers of the blocks including a fixed table having supports along its sides and a moveable carriage disposed above the table on guide rails. The carriage ... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4280786 | Feed mechanism A feed mechanism for transferring workpieces from a loading station to an unloading station comprises a carrier which is arranged to grip the workpieces during their transference and a frame relative to which the carrier is horizontally movable to effect ... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4274801 | Machine tool with an adjustable mechanism for fixing and displacing a workpiece relative to a tool A machine tool construction, comprises, a support frame which has a bar portion extending in one direction, for example, a longitudinal direction, with a gear rack defined thereon, and with a carrier guide movable along said bar portion and having a drive... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4256218 | Three axis transfer apparatus A transfer has gripper bars capable of grasping, lifting and transferring a work piece. The grasping and lifting motions are actuated by face cams. The face cams act through rocker arm linkages connected to rotatable rods having arms connected to the grip... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4240237 | Container lifting, transporting and releasing apparatus A case packer and/or case unloader apparatus especially but not exclusively designed for packing small bottles in an orderly pattern into a shipping carton, or conversely, removing a case load of such bottles from a carton has a horizontally reciprocable ... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4226570 | Blocker for magnetic diskette gripper A clothespin-like gripper having a pair of clamp jaw portions resiliently urged together and adapted to embrace and thereby grip a magnetic diskette or disk-jacket assembly for pulling the diskette from an original position into a final position. A swinga... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4187051 | Rotary video article centering, orienting and transfer device for computerized electronic operating systems Mounted upon a servo-motor-driven longitudinally-reciprocable X-axis carriage is a servo-motor-driven laterally-reciprocable Y-axis carriage carrying an air cylinder with a vertically-reciprocable and rotatable piston rod. Mounted atop the piston rod is a... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4184799 | Setting and stacking arrangement An improved setting and stacking arrangement for setting and stacking articles in a cross-bracing manner. The arrangement has a gripping mechanism which is movable in a transverse and longitudinal direction and rotatable about a vertical axis and also can... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4177002 | Cooperative drive robot A robot arrangement adapted to carry a load such as an article, a tool or a cargo to a specified position includes a main robot capable of active movement of the load in rectilinear directions and passive movement in directions parallel to a plane perpend... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4173427 | Gripping device for magnetic diskettes A gripping or picker device, particularly for a jacketed magnetic disk or diskette, comprising a pair of arms extending along each other and fixed with respect to a common support and having outwardly diverging cam surfaces on their distal ends to provide... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4111311 | Material handling unit A material handling unit for moving material from one position to another comprises a gripper arm on a shaft which is movable critically by fluid pressure and is rotatable by a rack and pinion mechanism actuated by a cylinder and piston. Adjustable abutme... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4074814 | Method and apparatus for controlling surface traversing device A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the movement of a surface traversing apparatus across a member which has an ordered array of openings in it's surface. Move control routines are provided, each of which instruct the traversing apparatus ... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4042122 | Reorientation device for an object manipulator A reorientation device for use with a general purpose object manipulator is disclosed, comprised of an arrangement for rotating the object while in the grasp of the manipulator through predetermined detented angles, this reorientation thereby reducing the... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4024959 | Mechanical handling apparatus A handling device has a flexible gripper having a drive associated with one movement of the gripper and including a member which is caused to move against an adjustable force when an actuating force determined by the adjustable force acts on the gripper, ... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3951400 | Cloth mover and stacker A carriage is moved on an ell shaped frame by a pneumatic actuator and a curved gripping device at the end of an ell shaped extension mounted on the carriage is operated by a second pneumatic actuator to pick up pieces of web material. The pneumatic actua... | 04/20/1976 |
