Gripper assembly for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, and a corresponding method
AssigneeOLBRICH GmbH
InventorDominic WILKEN
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Abstract
A gripper arrangement for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, wherein the gripper arrangement comprises a flexible semi-finished product resting on a support and at least one pair of grippers with a suction gripper or needle gripper and with at least one clamping gripper, wherein the suction or needle gripper is pivotable around an axis between a pick-up position for picking up an edge of the flexible semi-finished product and a transfer position for transferring the edge of the flexible semi-finished product to the clamping gripper. Furthermore, a corresponding method is described.
Claims15
Gripper arrangement for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, wherein the gripper arrangement comprises a flexible semi-finished product resting on a support and at least one pair of grippers with a suction gripper or needle gripper and with at least one clamping gripper, wherein the suction or needle gripper is pivotable around an axis between a pick-up position for picking up an edge of the flexible semi-finished product and a transfer position for transferring the edge of the flexible semi-finished product to the clamping gripper.
A method for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, comprising the steps:
- providing a flexible semi-finished product arranged on a support and a gripper arrangement which has at least one pair of grippers with at least one suction gripper or needle gripper and at least one clamping gripper;
- picking up an edge of the flexible semi-finished product arranged on the support with the at least one suction gripper or needle gripper in a pick-up position of the suction gripper or needle gripper;
- pivoting the at least one suction gripper or needle gripper from the pick-up position into a transfer position, wherein the edge is lifted from the support, and
- transferring the edge of the flexible semi-finished product to the at least one clamping gripper and holding the edge of the flexible semi-finished product with the at least one clamping gripper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.