Container for the individual release of bulk material and method of operation with a transport robot or a longitudinal conveyor
AssigneeHeron Innovations Factory GmbH
InventorsChristian Beer, Wolfgang Braendle
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Abstract
A rail-bound transport robot having an approximately box-like container, which is open at the top, for individual release of bulk material, which is provided in its inner space with at least one compartment, which is filled with the bulk material, wherein the transport robot has a loading space open at the top, adapted for receiving the container, and wherein the container rests on a longitudinal conveyor in the transport robot, which engages opening lids from below, which are positioned on the bottom side of container, wherein the bulk material flows outwardly through the opening lids, when the opening lids are opened.
Claims12
A rail-bound transport robot comprising:
- a longitudinal conveyor,
- an approximately box-shaped container, having an inner space and an open top, for individual release of bulk material, which is provided in the inner space with at least one compartment configured to be filled with the bulk material, the container comprising opening lids positioned on a bottom side of the container that is opposite the open top,
- a loading space having a bottom side and being open at the top, configured to receive the container, such that the container rests on the bottom side on the longitudinal conveyor, which engages an underside of the opening lids, wherein the bulk material flows outwardly through the opening lids, when the opening lids are opened,
- wherein the longitudinal conveyor is composed of movably driven telescopic arms, which are arranged within the loading space of the transport robot.
A method for operating a rail-bound transport robot on a rail track, on which one or more unloading and filling stations for transporting bulk materials are arranged, comprising:
- loading the bulk materials into containers, which are open at the top, and the containers on the transport robot are received in a loading space which is open at the top,
- in a loading position, resting a bottom side of the container on a movably driven longitudinal conveyor, such that at least a part of the longitudinal conveyor is blocked by opening lids, which are arranged on the bottom side in the container and
- unloading the bulk material by conveying, along the longitudinal conveyor, the transport robot on an approach plane, in a region of which an unloading station is positioned, and
- in the region of the unloading station, retracting telescopic arms of the longitudinal conveyor into the transport robot and thus successively release and unlock the opening lids.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.