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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1991
Gary W McCoy, Evans City, PA (US);
John Zwigart, New Brighton, PA (US);
Mark R Tweedy, Valencia, PA (US);
Carl Strutz and Company, Inc., Mars, PA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus to load workpieces on a carrier for a decorator. A swing arm supports grippers at one end for movement between a workpiece transfer site and a workpiece loading position. An actuating lever moveable with the swing arm moves a gripper into a workpiece gripping position with the stationary gripper at the transfer site and moves the displaceable gripper into a workpiece release position with stationary gripper at the workpiece loading position. A driven cam track coupled by a follower to an oscillating shaft reciprocates the swing arm between a workpiece receiving position and a workpiece discharge position. A belt extends between a bearing block used to support the oscillating shaft and a support shaft for the gripper so that as the swing arm reciprocates the gripper is rotated to transposes the position of the workpiece supported thereby.