Industrial plant for producing an assembled furniture item
AssigneeTecno Logica S.R.L.
InventorMirko Piasentin
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Abstract
An improved factory method for producing a complete furniture item starting from panels that can be joined together, is described. The method steps are picking up the set of panels divided into N sub-sets from a storage (10) of panels, N>=2, bringing the N sub-sets of panels respectively to N workstations (54, 20 56, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74) operating in tandem, loading—e.g. simultaneously—a subset of panels in each N-th station, and preferably subject them to processing there; transferring the panels of an Nth station to the next Nth station (54, 56, 64, 66, 68, 70), preferably for another processing, transferring all the panels of the set from the last of the N stations to an assembly station (72) and assemble them there to obtain the shell or cabinet.
Claims16
A method for producing a furniture item by in-line assembling a set of panels that can be joined together to form a shell or cabinet delimiting a compartment, the set of panels comprising a top or ceiling panel, a bottom panel, a back panel, and two side panels,
- the method comprising the steps of
- picking up from a storage a panel set divided into N sub-sets of panels, N >=2;
- bringing the N sub-sets of panels respectively to N workstations operating in series arrangement, namely wherein an output of a workstation is an input of a workstation next in series up to a last workstation of said series arrangement;
- loading and machining at least one of the N sub-sets of panels at each of the N workstations;
- transferring accumulated panels from a current workstation to a subsequent workstation in said series arrangement for another machining operation;
- transferring all the accumulated panels of the panel set from a last of the N workstations to an assembly station, and assembling the accumulated panels at the assembly station to obtain the shell or cabinet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.