Hide feeding apparatus in lines for the treatment or working of hides
AssigneesBarnini S.R.L., Robot System Automation S.R.L.
InventorsMarco Capaccioni, Marco Minutillo, Claudio Pinori, Lorenzo Simoni, Matteo Simoni
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Abstract
The present invention concerns the sector of leather treatment or working lines, in particular but not exclusively to tannery processings. In particular, the invention relates to a tendentially automatic or semi-automatic apparatus for loading incoming leathers on one of these lines, the apparatus being provided with means for lifting and advancing individual leathers starting from a stacking station, and with systems for the spread out and sequential arrangement of the single leathers on a conveyor surface of the line, downstream of the apparatus.
Claims19
An apparatus for picking, transporting and releasing flexible laminar elements from a pickup station of the apparatus to a conveyor surface of an element treatment or processing line arranged downstream of the apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- said flexible laminar element pickup station, adapted to receive the elements in a superimposed arrangement forming a pile;
- an element release region, adapted to face said line conveyor surface and comprising a release plane for the flexible laminar elements;
- a lifting and advancement unit configured to lift and advance individual flexible laminar elements from said pickup station along an elevation direction orthogonal to said release plane and to sequentially advance the flexible laminar elements to said release region along an advancement direction parallel to said release plane;
- an unfolding unit arranged in said release region and configured to unfold the individual flexible laminar elements and to load the flexible laminar elements on said conveyor surface in a substantially planar configuration;
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- a control system configured to control said lifting and advancement unit and said unfolding unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.