Gripping device
AssigneeOcado Innovation Limited
InventorsMarek Havel, Matthew Harman
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Abstract
A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The gripping device includes a frame; a gripping mechanism mounted on the frame configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame; a fixing device mounted on the frame configured to fix a free end of a reeled cable; and a cable tensioner configured to put the cable under tension in use. The cable tensioner includes a track; a carriage slidably mounted on the track; and a biasing device configured to bias the carriage.
Claims18
A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure having a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers, the gripping device comprising:
- a frame;
- a gripping mechanism mounted on the frame configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame;
- a fixing device mounted on the frame configured to fix a free end of a reeled cable;
- and
- a cable tensioner configured to put the cable under tension when in use, the cable tensioner including:
- a track mounted on the frame;
- a carriage slidably mounted on the track and configured to engage the cable in use;
- and
- a biasing device configured to bias the carriage towards one end of the track in a direction away from the fixing device so as to put the cable under tension when the carriage is engaged with the cable in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.