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US 2014/0151186 A1Published application
Rotary pallet pool
AssigneeMidaco Corporation
InventorsMichael Paul Cayley, SR., Timothy J. Hilger
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Abstract
A rotary pallet device for delivering a pallet to an automated machine, such as a CNC vertical machining center. A pallet is mounted to a retractable slide. The retractable slide is movably mounted with respect to a rotatable platform. An operator or worker accesses one or more stations, each with a rotatable door that at least partially houses a receiver for a pallet and/or a workpiece.
Claims20
A rotary pallet device for delivering a pallet to an automated machine, the rotary pallet device comprising:
- a pallet mounted to a retractable slide, a rotatable platform, the retractable slide movably mounted with respect to the rotatable platform, at least one station each having a receiver for accepting and locking the pallet, each said station having a rotatable door at least partially housing the receiver, and the rotatable door forming a load space for accessing the receiver.
A method for delivering a pallet to an automated machine, including the steps of:
- moving the pallet with a retractable slide, rotatably positioning a rotatable platform, moving the retractable slide with respect to the rotatable platform, accepting the pallet at a station, releasably locking the pallet to a receiver at the station, and moving a rotatable door that at least partially houses the receiver at the station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.