Gripping device
AssigneeOcado Innovation Limited
InventorsMarek HAVEL, Matthew HARMAN
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Abstract
A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The gripping device includes a frame; a gripping mechanism mounted on the frame configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame; a fixing device mounted on the frame configured to fix a free end of a reeled cable; and a cable tensioner configured to put the cable under tension in use. The cable tensioner includes a track; a carriage slidably mounted on the track; and a biasing device configured to bias the carriage.
Claims19
1-18. (canceled)
A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure having a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers, the gripping device comprising:
- a frame;
- a gripping mechanism mounted on the frame configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame;
- a fixing device mounted on the frame configured to fix a free end of a reeled cable;
- and
- a cable tensioner configured to put a cable under tension when in use, the cable tensioner including:
- a track mounted on the frame;
- a carriage slidably mounted on the track and configured to engage a cable in use;
- and
- a biasing device configured to bias the carriage towards one end of the track in a direction away from the fixing device so as to put a cable under tension when the carriage is engaged with the cable in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.