Adhesive application system
AssigneeFastbrick IP Pty Ltd
InventorSamuel Thomas Pickering
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Abstract
An adhesive application system for an automated block laying machine, the adhesive application system including: (a) an adhesive supply; and, (b) an adhesive applicator including: (i) a container for storing an adhesive reservoir received from the adhesive supply via an adhesive supply line; (ii) a lid mounted to the container so as to substantially cover the adhesive reservoir; and, (iii) an adhesive roller rotatably coupled to the container so that upon rotation adhesive from the reservoir is entrained up and around at least a portion of the adhesive roller, wherein, in use, adhesive is transferred from the adhesive roller onto a bottom surface of a block as the block is moved across the roller.
Claims21
An adhesive application system for an automated block laying machine, the adhesive application system including:
- an adhesive supply;
- an adhesive applicator including:
- a container for storing an adhesive reservoir received from the adhesive supply;
- a lid mounted to the container so as to substantially cover the adhesive reservoir;
- and,
- an adhesive roller rotatably coupled to the container and configured to be at least partially submerged in the adhesive reservoir so that upon rotation adhesive from the adhesive reservoir is entrained up and around at least a portion of the adhesive roller, and
- an adhesive supply line connected to and movable with the container, wherein the adhesive supply line is configured to receive adhesive from the adhesive supply and convey the received adhesive to the container,
- wherein, in use, adhesive is transferred from the adhesive roller onto a bottom surface of a block as the block is moved across the adhesive roller.
A block laying and adhesive applying head for an automated block laying machine, the head mountable to a distal end of a telescopingly extendable and foldable boom for conveying blocks therealong, the head including an adhesive application system including:
- an adhesive supply;
- and;
- an adhesive applicator including:
- a container for storing an adhesive reservoir received from the adhesive supply;
- a lid mounted to the container so as to substantially cover the adhesive reservoir;
- and,
- an adhesive roller rotatably coupled to the container and configured to be at least partially submerged in the adhesive reservoir so that upon rotation adhesive from the adhesive reservoir is entrained up and around at least a portion of the adhesive roller, and
- an adhesive supply line connected to and movable with the container, wherein the adhesive supply line is configured to receive adhesive from the adhesive supply and convey the received adhesive to the container,
- wherein, in use, adhesive is transferred from the adhesive roller onto a bottom surface of a block as the block is moved across the adhesive roller.
An automated block laying machine, including:
- a base;
- a telescopingly extendable and foldable boom rotatably mounted from the base for conveying blocks therealong;
- and,
- a block laying and adhesive applying head, the head mountable to a distal end of the boom, the head including:
- a support mountable to the boom;
- a robotic arm having an end effector operable to grip and lay blocks at a predetermined spatial position and orientation;
- a block transfer apparatus for transferring a block from the distal end of the boom to the robotic arm;
- and,
- an adhesive application system mounted to the support including:
- an adhesive supply;
- an adhesive applicator including:
- a container for storing an adhesive reservoir received from the adhesive supply;
- a lid mounted to the container so as to substantially cover the adhesive reservoir;
- and,
- an adhesive roller rotatably coupled to the container and configured to be at least partially submerged in the adhesive reservoir so that upon rotation adhesive from the adhesive reservoir is entrained up and around at least a portion of the adhesive roller;
- and
- an adhesive supply line connected to and movable with the container wherein the adhesive supply line is configured to receive adhesive from the adhesive supply and convey the received adhesive to the container,
- wherein, in use, adhesive is transferred from the adhesive roller onto a bottom surface of a block as the block transfer apparatus linearly extends a block across the adhesive roller.
An adhesive application system for an automated block laying machine, the adhesive application system including:
- an adhesive supply;
- and;
- an adhesive applicator including:
- a container for storing an adhesive reservoir received from the adhesive supply;
- a lid mounted to the container so as to substantially cover the adhesive reservoir, the lid having one or more openings therein;
- and,
- an adhesive roller rotatably coupled to the container and including one or more roller elements configured to be at least partially submerged in the adhesive reservoir so that upon rotation adhesive from the adhesive reservoir is entrained up and around at least a portion of the one or more roller elements, and
- an adhesive supply line connected to and movable with the container, wherein the adhesive supply line is configured to receive adhesive from the adhesive supply and convey the received adhesive to the container,
- wherein the one or more roller elements at least partially protrude above the lid through the one or more openings of the lid so that, in use, adhesive is transferred from the adhesive roller onto a bottom surface of a block as the block is moved across the lid and the one or more roller elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.