Schleuniger Holding Ag

Schleuniger Ag

Ruedi Imfeld

Eugen Wosinski

Ivo Meierhans

Klemens Imholz

Marco Bürgisser

A tool-holding device () for holding a tool () on a work machine with a retaining unit () and with a lock unit (). The lock unit () can be transferred from a receiving position into a fixing position, and the retaining unit () comprises a receiving section () for holding the lock unit () at least in sections. The lock unit () comprises a tool-holding section () for holding a tool () in a pre-positioned manner. A work machine with this tool-holding device and a method for positioning a tool () on a work machine are also disclosed.

Tool-holding device, work machine with the tool-holding device, as well as a method for positioning a tool on a tool-holding device

A cable bushing fitting machine includes: a fitting region; a mandrel disposed at said fitting region, said mandrel being hollow to receive a cable therethrough; a first rotatably mounted stripping jaw arranged in the fitting region; a second rotatably mounted stripping jaw arranged in the fitting region; a drive configured to mount cable bushings onto cable by successively disposing respective ones of the cable bushings onto the mandrel, feeding the cable through the mandrel, and executing a relative movement between the mandrel and the first and second rotatably mounted stripping jaws to locate the respective cable bushings onto the cable; a camera directed toward the fitting region to capture images of the respective cable bushings located on the cable; and at least the first rotatably mounted stripping jaw having a rotation axis, the first stripping jaw rotation axis being laterally offset from an optical axis of said camera by a distance sufficient to permit the camera unimpeded views of cable bushings in the fitting region when the first stripping jaw is at least to a first selected extent opened.

Processes for fitting cable bushings

A method for fitting a cable bushing onto a cable includes: providing a fitting region; providing a mandrel at the fitting region, the mandrel being hollow to receive a cable therethrough; pushing a cable bushing onto the hollow mandrel; directing a camera towards the fitting region; providing at least two stripping jaws to grasp the cable bushing, the providing step including the step of providing at least rotatable one of the stripping jaws in rotatable manner to rotate on respective a stripping jaw rotation axis that is laterally offset from a camera an optical axis of the camera; rotating the at least one of the stripping jaws towards closing to grasp the cable bushing with the stripping jaws; pushing a cable into the hollow mandrel; executing a relative movement between the hollow mandrel and the stripping jaws to push the cable bushing onto the cable; and rotating the at least one of the stripping jaws to open them to an a selected open extent that permits the camera to have an unimpeded view of the fitted cable bushing.

Machine and processes for fitting cable bushings

Machines for fitting cable bushings on a cable have a hollow mandrel () for receiving cable bushing () and a cable in a fitting region (A). Rotatably mounted stripping jaws () arranged in the fitting region (A) fit the cable bushing () on the cable. A camera () is directed towards the fitting region (A). A rotation axis of at least one of the stripping jaws () is at a lateral distance from ray-of-view (D) originating from the camera () and running through the fitting region (A). The stripping jaws () may be opened to an extent that makes it possible for the camera () to have an unimpeded view of the fitted cable bushing (). Related methods for operating such machines () are also disclosed.

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Steinhausen, Switzerland

Ruedi Imfeld