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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:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Amada Company, Limited, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
483 59 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for transferring a machine part, with a frame body, a pair of machine part gripper members each supported on the frame body for sliding in predetermined direction, a resilient member for energizing the pair of machine part gripper members to move toward each other. Also disclosed is a gripper member movement mechanism for disengaging the pair of gripper members against the resilient force of the resilient members and a gripper member lock mechanism for locking the movement of the gripper members when the gripper members are at a predetermined distance from each other.