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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:
Apr. 09, 1991
Filed:
May. 31, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mannesmann Aktiengelsellschaft, Dusseldorf, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 864 ; 2941191 ; 901 39 ;
Abstract
An industrial robot gripper assembly includes a pair of spaced apart gripper arms, each of which carries a plurality of workpiece receiving devices. The gripper arms are movable toward and away from each other and at least one of the workpiece receiving devices on each of the gripper arms is movable along an arcuate path so as to bring the receiving devices into appropriate receiving positions for gripping engagement with a workpiece.