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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Heinz Gehrig, Kaiserslautern, DE;
Assignee:
Hoesch Maschinenfabrik Deutschland AG, Dortmund, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 61 ; 271 183 ; 414117 ;
Abstract
The device for picking up flat articles or shapes has a gripping mechanism secured to the end of a moving arm, which is for example part of a robot. The gripping mechanism consists of at least two grippers that face each other in a plane on a frame and have gripper pins mounted on them. To allow gripping procedures to be carried out automatically the grippers are mounted in such a way that they can rotate, so that, during an appropriate rotation, the pins, which are in the shape of the arc of a circle and oriented in the form of a multiple screw thread, will be inserted into and extracted from the flat articles or shapes.