Lifting gear
AssigneeMultivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
InventorsMaximilian Hetz, Stefan Oberschachtsiek
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a lifting gear for opening and closing a workstation of a packaging machine, wherein the lifting gear includes a stationarily mounted base, a lifting platform mounted to be height adjustable with respect to the base along a lifting axis for supporting a lower tool part of the workstation, and an adjusting mechanism comprising a drive unit and a toggle means on which the lifting platform is mounted, wherein the adjusting mechanism furthermore includes a pressure part coupled with the toggle means and adjustable by means of the drive unit along the lifting axis, wherein by the displacement of said pressure part along the lifting axis, the toggle means can be actuated for a height adjustment of the lifting platform.
Claims18
A lifting gear for opening and closing a workstation of a packaging machine, the lifting gear comprising:
- a stationarily mountable base;
- a lifting platform mounted to be height adjustable with respect to the base along a lifting axis for supporting a lower tool part of the workstation;
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- an adjusting mechanism comprising a drive unit and a toggle means on which the lifting platform is mounted, wherein the adjusting mechanism furthermore includes a pressure part coupled with the toggle means and adjustable by means of the drive unit, wherein by displacement of the pressure part, the toggle means is actuatable for a height adjustment of the lifting platform along the lifting axis;
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- wherein the toggle means is movable between a retracted position and an extended position in which upper attachment bearings provided at the lifting platform for the toggle means have a different distance with respect to each other than lower attachment bearings provided at the base for the toggle means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.