Method and device for guiding a tool
AssigneeHochland SE
InventorsTobias Schellheimer, Hans-Peter Schwaerzler
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Abstract
Method and device for guiding a tool in a recurring application of a product moved along an X-axis, wherein the tool is mounted on the Z-carriage of a cross guide and is moved therewith along the Z-axis standing perpendicular on the X-axis, wherein the Z-carriage is mounted on the X-carriage of the cross guide, the guide of which is mounted along the X-axis in a base plane, wherein the X-carriage is driven with an X-drive, wherein the Z-carriage is driven by a Z-drive, which is held stationary in the base plane and has a traction means driven by a first servo motor provided for the drive of the Z-carriage, which is driven from the base plane on the movable Z-carriage.
Claims18
A device for guiding a tool comprising:
- (a) A base comprising a first servomotor drive stationarily mounted on the base for driving a first belt;
- (b) A first carriage translatably mounted for reversible translation in a X-axis direction relative to the base;
- and
- (c) A second carriage translatably mounted on the first carriage for reversible translation in a Z-axis direction which differs from the X-axis direction,
- wherein
- the second carriage is coupled to the first servomotor drive via multiple redirection rollers and
- the first belt attached to the second carriage passing over the multple redirection rollers and driveably engaged with the first servomotor drive, wherein
- (1) at least one of the multiple redirection rollers is mounted at a stationary location distal in the X-axis direction relative to the first servomotor drive and
- (2) at least two of the multiple redirection rollers are mounted on the first carriage such that the second carriage is coupled with the first belt between the at least two redirection rollers mounted on the first carriage for displacing the second carriage in the Z-axis direction relative to the first carriage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.