Compact tools with suction cups for handling robot

Tooling for holding relatively lightweight products using suction cup(s), which tooling is associated with a manipulating robot of the high-speed type, wherein it consists of a body in the form of a compact block made of an appropriate material of the thermoplastic, composite or resin type, which block is configured to combine the vacuum generators and the suction cups and for installing an ultra-short internal circuit between the two, said body comprising:

• on the one hand, bores to house said vacuum generators which are in the form of cartridges, each bore constituting a vacuum chamber and extending, in a fluidtight manner, via the corresponding cartridge, between a compressed air inlet chamber and an expansion chamber which acts as a silencer on the outlet side of said cartridge, and
• on the other hand, the internal circuit which connects said vacuum chamber and the corresponding suction cup, said circuit consisting of a plurality of orifices and/or cavities,
• and in that said body consists of strata fashioned beforehand and then assembled and intrinsically comprising the vacuum chambers and the orifices and/or cavities which join together said chambers and said suction cups, which are grafted onto said body, and said overall supply chamber for supplying all the various cartridges and said expansion chamber which is common to said cartridges, which cartridges are arranged side by side and parallel to one another, and said suction cups are grafted under said body, perpendicular to said cartridges.