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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
May. 10, 2016
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Llc, Kansas City, MO (US);
Christian Barr, Kansas City, MO (US);
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC, Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
An attachment device for lifting and removing build plates and additive manufactured parts built on the build plates from an additive manufacturing machine. The attachment device may fit onto a lift trolley to cooperatively engage with and lift the build plate upward off of a surface of the additive manufacturing machine. The attachment device may include a support bar, two lifting arms, and a mounting bracket. The support bar may have a slider track formed therethrough, so that the lifting arms can be adjusted to correspond with a width of the build plate. The lifting arms may each having a channel formed along a length thereof and an interfacing portion slidably located within the slider track. The channels may be sized and shaped to engage with a bottom surface and/or opposing edges of the build plates. The mounting bracket may attach to a lifting device of the lift trolley.