Strothmann Machines & Handling Gmbh

Tim Büllesbach

Stefan Rehling

Michael Bentrup

Markus Ostendorf

Andreas Senge

Fabian Kuhlemann

Dominik Schaffrinski

Nihat Demir

Tobias Schartner

Bernd Naumann

Juri Rempel

Alexandr Götting

A rail-type floor conveyor system includes at least two rail pairs of different running directions, at least four rotatably mounted support plates on bearings, located in the intersection region of the rail pairs and on which wheels of a floor conveyor are rotated from a first into a second running direction, at least one floor conveyor having at least four wheel cassettes, rotated about a vertical axis and each have at least one wheel in contact with the rails, and wherein each wheel has a peripheral contour complementary to at least one profile of a rail so that transverse forces on the floor conveyor are absorbed by the rail pair, and a wheel-cassette rotary drive assembly connected to the floor conveyor and able to rotate the wheel cassettes about their vertical axis on the support plates, wherein no profiling for guiding the wheels is on the support plates.

Rail-type floor conveyor system and method for operating a rail-type floor conveyor system

Rail conveyor element which can be displaced on a rail system with intersecting rails, includes a base and a wheel-bearing cassette which supports the base and in which at least one wheel is accommodated to rest on a rail, the wheel-bearing cassette is rotatably mounted around a vertical axis relative to the base and the rail conveyor element includes a pressure ram with actuator which extends downward on or below the base and can be displaced between a raised unloaded position which coincides with the transport position of the rail conveyor and a lowered loaded position to unload the wheel-bearing cassette relative to the rail.

Rail conveyor element

A support () of a track floor conveyor (), including a hollow profile (), of which at least one hollow space () is enclosed by a wall (), in which the wall (), on the side adjoining the track (), has at least one groove-shaped depression in which the axle or the axle bearing () of one or more wheels () can be accommodated, and the wall () has a recess () for at least a part of a wheel ().

Support of a track floor conveyor, and track floor conveyor with support

A transport system () for transporting workpieces () on a transport path between two production process stations, includes a set of drones (), each of which includes at least one gripper (), which is designed to releasably couple to a surface () of a workpiece, and a control device for the simultaneous coordinated control of the drones () of the set in such a way that the grippers () of the drones () couple to different coupling positions on the surface () of the workpiece () and the orientation of the workpiece () can be changed on a transport path between the production process stations by changing the relative positions of the drones () while maintaining the relative distances of the coupling positions from one another.

Transport system for transporting workpieces on a transport path between two production process stations

Linear conveyor for transferring workpieces between two consecutive positions in a throughput direction, including at least one axis extending in and linearly displaceable to the throughput direction, and a slide, disposed on and displaceable along each axis, and to which a carrier element for accommodating the workpiece is attached, each axis being telescopic and including a first axis element displaceable relative to the base, and a second axis element displaceable relative to the first axis element, on which slide is displaceably disposed, and a coupling for coupling of displacement movements of the first axis element, second axis element and slide with each other, such that when the first axis element is displaced relative to the base the second axis element is displaced relative to the first axis element and the slide relative to the second axis element in the same direction of displacement.

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Tim Büllesbach