Manipulating device and method for operation thereof
AssigneeFesto AG & Co.
InventorsLeif PUDEWILLS, Markus SINGER, Tobias WAIBEL
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Abstract
A manipulating device, by which flexible flat objects can be repositioned and which has a movable gripping device which includes a support structure and at least one gripping unit. The gripping unit has a clamping arm which, together with a clamping surface of the support structure, delimits a clamping gap, in which a flat object portion can be firmly clamped. By means of a transport structure of the clamping arm which is drivable for a circumferential transport movement, the flat object portion can be transported into the clamping gap for subsequent clamping.
Claims24
A manipulating device for repositioning flexible flat objects, with at least one gripping device which is movable in space and has a notional central vertical axis, which gripping device has at least one gripping unit permitting releasable gripping and holding of flat objects,
- wherein
- that the gripping device has a support structure which is provided with a bearing surface pointing downwards in the axial direction of the vertical axis on an underside of the gripping device, and with which support structure the gripping device can be placed on a flat object to be gripped, to adopt a gripping position,
- and that the at least one gripping unit has a clamping gap extending between a clamping surface of the support structure and a clamping arm arranged on the support structure, which gap is open with an object introduction opening towards the underside of the gripping device, and in which a flat object portion of the flat object to be repositioned can be firmly clamped, releasably,
- wherein the clamping arm has a transport structure which can be pressed on the flat object to be gripped in the gripping position of the gripping device, and can be driven by a rotary drive device to a circular transport movement, by means of which a flat object portion impinged on by same can be transported, frictionally, through the object introduction opening, into the clamping gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.