Corrugating roll unit conveyance apparatus and apparatus and method for replacing corrugating roll unit
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.
InventorTakashi Nitta
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Abstract
A corrugating roll unit conveyance apparatus includes a mounting base having a first accommodation part for accommodating a corrugating roll unit to be removed and a second accommodation part for accommodating a corrugating roll unit to be installed; and a movement device for moving the mounting base to a first replacement position at which the first accommodation part faces the existing corrugating roll unit, a second replacement position at which the second accommodation part faces a space from which the existing corrugating roll unit has been removed, and a retracted position separated from the first replacement position and the second replacement position.
Claims16
A corrugating roll unit conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a mounting base having a first accommodation part for accommodating a corrugating roll unit to be removed and a second accommodation part for accommodating a corrugating roll unit to be mounted;
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- a movement device for moving the mounting base to a first replacement position where the first accommodation part faces an existing corrugating roll unit, a second replacement position where the second accommodation part faces a space where the existing corrugating roll unit has been removed, and a retracted position separated from the first replacement position and the second replacement position,
- wherein the first replacement position and the second replacement position are arranged side by side in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to a first horizontal direction which is a mounting direction and a removal direction of the corrugating roll unit, and
- the movement device is adapted to move the mounting base in a sequential manner to a vertical position of the first replacement position along a vertical direction, to the first replacement position along the second horizontal direction, to the second replacement position along the second horizontal direction, and to the retracted position.
A method of replacing a corrugating roll unit comprising:
- mounting a corrugating roll unit on a second accommodation part of a mounting base with a first accommodation part of the mounting base empty;
- moving the mounting base to a vertical position of a first replacement position where the first accommodation part faces an existing corrugating roll unit along a vertical direction;
- moving the existing corrugating roll unit to the first accommodation part at the first replacement position;
- moving the mounting base to the first replacement position along a second horizontal direction orthogonal to a first horizontal direction which is a mounting direction and a removal direction of the corrugating roll unit;
- moving the mounting base to a second replacement position where the second accommodation part faces a space where the existing corrugating roll unit has been removed, the first replacement position and the second replacement position being arranged side by side in the second horizontal direction;
- moving the mounting base to the second replacement position along the second horizontal direction;
- moving a corrugating roll unit of the second accommodation part to the space at the second replacement position;
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- retracting the mounting base from the second replacement position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.