Apparatus for storing objects on a vehicle
AssigneeIndustrie Pirelli S.p.A.
InventorsSilvio Manini, Antonio Pacciarini
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for receiving a length or section of a tire tread or the like and transferring it to a storage means. The apparatus has a cylindrical member which receives the section from an extruder or other source, inverts the section and deposits it on a first endless conveyor. A second conveyor is looped about the downstream roller of the first endless belt and receives the section from the first belt. A vertically movable carriage has an endless belt which carries the section from the second belt to a storage means. A slide member movable in the same direction as the endless belts is provided for transferring a section from the carriage to a storage surface.
Claims13
An apparatus for automatically transferring a plurality of separate objects which may be in a plastic condition, either individually or in groups of two or more elements between a collecting plane and a storing plane, said storing plane belonging to a structure presenting a plurality of identical storing planes each one movable from an inclined position to a horizontal one, and being vertically apart one from the other when in said horizontal plane, said apparatus comprising
- a first transporting device, vertically movable, provided with a first supporting surface, mobile in a given direction, capable of receiving said section or sections of said collecting plane and to transport it or them to the vicinity of said storing plane,
- a second transporting device, alternatively movable in both senses of said given direction, between said first transporting device and said storing plane, provided with a second supporting surface, capable of receiving said section or sections, from said first supporting surface, mobile in said given direction, the dimension of which in said direction, defined as length of the surface, is sufficient to contain the maximum number of said sections which must be deposited on said storing plane,
- devices, for carrying into effect the transferring of said section or sections, from the first supporting surface to said second supporting surface wherein said second supporting surface is disposed under said first supporting surface, at least partially in correspondence with the latter, means to displace said second surface from said underlying position to an overhanging position with respect to the first surface and means to allow the second supporting surface pass through the first one every time said second surface is displaced between said underlying and overhanging positions,
- means to regulate said alternative movements of said second transporting device with respect to the first one,
- means to regulate the movements of said second supporting surface,
- means to regulate the length of said second supporting surface, said means being able to transport said section, or sections, above said storing plane, to stop it or them in a position, fixed with respect to said storing plane, above it, and to remove said second supporting surface from below the section, or sections, whereby the or these latter no longer supported, falls or fall on said underlying storing plane.
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