Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter Haftung

Klenk Gmbh & Co. Kg

Lorenz Mense

Rolf Clausen

Wolfgang Hintze

Manfred Weigand

Lars Ramme

Christoph SCHÜTTE

Bruno SÜESS

Frank Dose

Steffen Schmid

Michael Schmid

A suction device for taking-up, transporting, and depositing work pieces, ch as flat blanks of limp sheet material or panels, is equipped with a plurality of suction tubes. Each suction tube is individually connectable to a source of reduced pressure, whereby a pattern of effective suction tubes may be conformed to any particular configuration of a blank. The tubes are arranged in a housing, for example, in rows and columns. At least a portion of the housing is formed as a reduced pressure chamber. Each tube is individually connectable to the reduced pressure chamber to make the respective tube effective. Disconnection makes the tube ineffective. The connection of disconnection simultaneously moves the respective tube into a work position or into a rest position.

Suction device for taking-up and depositing of work pieces

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Hamburg, Germany

Lorenz Mense