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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:
Jan. 21, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald E McGeachy, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Jeffrey R Schneid, North Olmstead, OH (US);
Assignee:
Numation, Inc., Westlake, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 88 ; 2941191 ; 901 37 ;
Abstract
A fluid actuated gripper mechanism with opposed gripper slides received on ways of a housing and actuated by opposed pistons received in a common bore. Each piston is transfixed by a coupling pin secured to one slide. Movement of the pistons and slides is synchronized by a lever pivotally mounted in the housing and having equally radially spaced apart and parallel elongate cam slots in which the coupling pins are received.