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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Andreas Gross, Wuppertal, DE;
Other;
Abstract
The invention relates to a grinding machine for sharpening (honing) blades ( ) of knives, scissors, hand tools or the like, with a magazine, a feed station ( ) or similar, and with a honing station ( ) for the blades ( ), which has two contra-rotating grinding wheels ( ). In order to automate a method to be performed using the said machine whilst maintaining a high degree of machining accuracy, it is proposed to use a robot ( ) with memory-programmable control having a manipulator ( ) moveable in at least four of the six possible translatory and rotational degrees of spatial freedom, a gripper head, which has a holding device for accommodating and moving a blade ( ), being fixed to the manipulator ( ).