Installation for producing reinforcement cages for tower segments of wind turbines
AssigneeWobben Properties GmbH
InventorsGeorg Krüger, Ingo Meyer, Karsten Albers
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Abstract
A system for producing reinforcing cages for wind turbine tower segments, wherein a reinforcing cage has in each case substantially horizontally oriented ring segments and substantially vertically oriented stiffening elements. It is proposed that the system has a receiving area which is adapted so as to receive the preferably inner, substantially horizontally oriented ring segments of the reinforcing cage, a first handling robot for supplying and positioning the stiffening elements, and a second handling robot for connecting the ring elements to the stiffening elements.
Claims14
A system for producing reinforcing cages for wind turbine tower segments, wherein each reinforcing cage has substantially horizontally oriented ring elements and substantially vertically oriented stiffening elements, the system comprising:
- a receiving area adapted to receive the ring elements;
- a first handling robot configured to supply and position the stiffening elements, wherein the first handling robot is configured to bring the stiffening elements to bear against the ring elements in a substantially vertical orientation;
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- a second handling robot configured to connect the ring elements to the stiffening elements,
- wherein the stiffening elements are formed from a helically bent endless material,
- wherein the first handling robot has bending means and interacts with a feed unit that feeds the endless material to the bending means, and
- wherein the bending means in configured to bend the endless material in such a way that the stiffening elements are formed helically.
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