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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1994
Stephen L Bellio, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Edward Bernardon, Bedford, MA (US);
Mark J Condon, Brighton, MA (US);
Robert S Flory, Concord, MA (US);
Donald C Fyler, Needham, MA (US);
Mitchell L Hansberry, Framingham, MA (US);
Tommy W Lee, Wilmington, MA (US);
James F Mueller, North Reading, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for nondestructively removing a cut segment of predetermined shape from a limp material sheet workpiece and transporting the cut workpiece segment to a staging area for further processing. The cut segment is picked up by a picker which may comprise an array of carding strips, each strip having a plurality of needle-like elements, arranged such that each strip can be displaced relative to its adjacent strips and the needle-like elements of each strip are angularly offset with respect to the needle-like elements of the adjacent strips. Such removal and transporting having is accomplished without distorting the shape of the cut segment.