Forging machine with robotic handler
AssigneeThe National Machinery Company
InventorsAaron T. Hall, Douglas M. Hoerig, James A. Gase
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Abstract
A progressive cold forming machine and a robot for automatically changing a cutoff cassette, tooling cassettes, a transfer slide and transfer cam. A loading area adjacent the machine and robot has provisions for supporting a tooling cassette pallet and a transfer slide and camshaft pallet and a holding area for temporarily receiving some of the componentry being exchanged.
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An apparatus comprising a progressive forming machine having a station with a cutoff cassette, a plurality of workstations with tooling cassettes and a six axis shelf robot for automatically changing the cutoff and tooling cassettes, the robot having an arm with a flange distal from a supported end of said arm, a coupling device on the distal flange, the cutoff and tooling cassettes each having a coupling element engageable by the coupling device to enable the cutoff and tooling cassettes to be transported to and from the machine by the robot.
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