Device for handling products in containers based on movement by elastic pressure on the top of the containers
AssigneeMáquinas Sanmartin Ltda
InventorJose Bernardo Sanmartin
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Abstract
The present utility model refers to a device coupled to a robot or another moving system, exerting elastic pressure on the upper part over can containers, allowing to keep the products to be moved as fixed, displacing and turning them, defining their positions and organizing them for later palletization, enhanced with the introduction of locking pins, side wings, a lower metal plate covered by an elastic polymer with an innovative checkerboard design and a compression spring system, in the field of application intended to the industry and distribution centres for beverage and food, in the area of preparation of product container layers, ready before palletization.
Claims2
A method for handling products in containers based on controlling movement of the containers by the use of elastic pressure on the top of the containers, wherein a device for handling products in containers comprises a metal head attached to a metal frame, comprising a base set and a flange, to engage a movement set or robot, wherein, in a lower part of the base set of the device, a set constituted by a lower metal plate and covered with an elastic polymer is assembled, having its design changed into a checkerboard, aiming to assure more efficient friction between a claw and the container, after fixing the base set to an upper plate of the device, by means of a spring system, wherein said system, comprised by bolts and pins, besides the essential constituents joining the lower metal plate to the upper plate, considering that the connection as disclosed above is performed in four spots with holes, next to vertices of the upper plate, coincident with fixing spots to the base set, being fixed to the upper plate by innovative locking pins for said flange;
- wherein the device further comprises a connection performed by means of a lower sleeve receiving the spring and a guide pin, projecting from the sleeve which is coupled to the upper plate and, between the plate and the lower sleeve, two side wings are assembled, and thus the course of the system was increased, giving better flexibility to the system and the pin, which was relieved in its diameter, so to avoid locking during operation, and consequently a protection ability for the robot against excessive torque was also improved, wherein the locking pins receiving the set of locks constituted by the flange used for engagement to a mouth of the robot are located on a middle of the upper plate;
- furthermore, innovative side wings were incorporated to drag the container, thus reducing a friction coefficient over the conveyor.
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