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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Phd, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Inventor:
Tod A. Gunder, New Haven, IN (US);
Assignee:
PHD, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C 1/00 (2006.01); B25J 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/0475 (2013.01);
Abstract
Articulating gripper tooling for gripping an object, the articulating gripper tooling comprising: an articulating finger jaw including a slot; a gripping element including a shaft and at least one finger attached to the shaft, the shaft having a longitudinal axis; and a locking pin disposed through the slot and coupling the shaft to the articulating finger jaw; wherein the gripping element is free to rotate a predetermined amount about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, limited by the locking pin contacting a surface of the articulating finger jaw and/or an adjustment element.