Columbus Mckinnon Corporation

American Handling Systems, Inc.

Michael D Olson

Robert O Braesch

Thomas A Mefferd

Peter L Hong

Kyle Joseph Banwart

Jereld Alan Meiers

Scott L Frye

Jerome P Schuller

Ryan J Sobkoweak

Peter L Reis

Joseph P Schomaker

A material handling system is presented having a frame member and a pair of fork members that form a holding area configured to receive sheet stock therein. The sheet stock includes a plurality of parts that are connected by small tabs of material. The material handling system is used to remove the sheet stock from a cutting tool and dislodge the parts from the sheet stock by impacting the sheet stock with the fork members by rotation or movement of the forks. This arrangement eliminates the need to remove individual parts from a cutting tool, and instead allows for removal of the sheet stock and parts in a single operation thereby improving the utilization rate of the cutting tool and streamlining the manufacturing process.

Material handling system and method of use

An air lifting and balancing unit including a cylinder, a piston in the cylinder, a ball screw affixed to the piston, a ball nut mounted for rotation on the ball screw, a drum mounted on the ball nut, a chain driven by the drum, and centrifugally actuated brakes mounted on the drum for stopping rotation of the drum when the drum exceeds a predetermined acceleration either due to a loss of load or to a loss of air pressure applied to the piston, and a pneumatic circuit in communication with the cylinder for providing air pressure thereto which applies a force on the piston which is at a substantially constant incremental value in opposition to the force exerted by the load applied to the piston through the chain and the drum and the ball screw regardless of variations in said air pressure to thereby cause the speed of the chain to remain substantially constant.

Air lifting and balancing unit

Air lifting and balancing unit with constant force pneumatic circuit

Pneumatic control circuit for applying constant force

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Laurens, IA, United States of America

Michael D Olson