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US 2012/0230809 A1Published application
Gripping head for a robot or manipulator of a cartoning machine
AssigneeCama1 S.P.A.
InventorDaniele BELLANTE
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Abstract
A gripping head for a loading robot or manipulator of a cartoning machine capable of nesting articles arranged on two substantially parallel rows, the gripping head comprising a row of gripping members, wherein each of the gripping members comprises a gripping section adapted to receive two adjacent articles and on opposite sides with respect to a centreline plane, and wherein at least the gripping members having even index position or odd index position in the row rotate by about 180 degrees around an axis.
Claims15
A gripping head for a loading robot or a manipulator of a cartoning machine, the gripping head comprising:
- a plurality of gripping members arranged in at least one longitudinal row of the gripping head, each of the gripping members comprises a gripping section adapted to receive two adjacent articles and on opposite sides with respect to a centreline plane of the gripping section;
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- wherein at least one subset of the gripping members are rotatable by at least about 180 degrees around an axis substantially parallel to the plane, the at least one subset comprising at least the gripping members in even index position or in odd index position in the longitudinal row of the plurality of gripping members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.