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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1990
Gaetano Di Rosa, Pino Torinese, IT;
Fata Automation S.p.A., Turin, IT;
Abstract
A plant for welding automotive vehicle bodies that are conveyed in succession in an assembly line to a single processing station having equipment for positioning, holding and welding different types of automotive bodies, a pair of opposed stationary frames pivotally supporting elongate members, which in turn rotatably support tool supporting units, each of which carries a plurality of tool assemblies. The elongate members pivot normal to the assembly line path to place the tool supporting units in and out of operating position; and the tool assemblies are revolvable about the rotatable tool supporting units to select one of the tool assemblies for a particular vehicle body type.