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US 11,167,940 B2Granted
Depalletizing device for depalletizing a transport receptacle from a storage surface
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsThomas Irrenhauser, Christian Poss, Mario Trautner
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Abstract
A depalletizing device for depalletizing a transport container from a storage surface includes a frame, a belt conveyor unit, a drive unit, and a plurality of balls. The belt conveyor unit is disposed so as to be height-adjustable on the frame by the drive unit and the plurality of balls are integrated in and protrude from the belt conveyor unit, are rotatable by the drive unit, and form a bearing face for the transport container.
Claims8
A depalletizing device for depalletizing a transport container from a storage surface, comprising:
- a frame;
- a belt conveyor unit, wherein the belt conveyor unit has a conveyor belt which is movable via rollers;
- a height-adjustment installation;
- a drive unit;
- wherein the belt conveyor unit, the height-adjustment installation, and the drive unit are disposed entirely within the frame;
- wherein the belt conveyor unit is disposed so as to be height-adjustable on the frame by the height-adjustment installation;
- and
- a plurality of balls, wherein the plurality of balls are integrated in and protrude from the belt conveyor unit and wherein the plurality of balls form a bearing face for the transport container;
- wherein the drive unit is formed by a single motor and wherein a motion work of the single motor is fed to the height-adjustment mechanism, the rollers, and the plurality of balls to drive the height-adjustment mechanism, the rollers, and the plurality of balls;
- wherein the plurality of balls are simultaneously rotatable in two directions by the drive unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.