Carrousel with a horizontal, fixed circuit, comprising several solidary arms on a rotating drum with a vertical axis
AssigneeSociete d'Applications de Procedes Industriels et Chimiques S.A.P.I.C.
InventorGerard Y. Richard
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Abstract
Apparatus useful in foundry moulding or casting embodying a turret having a lurality of arms rotatably mounted on and extending radially from a hub or drum rotatable about a vertical axis. The arms comprise a base, an inclined intermediate portion and an end portion parallel with the base. A fixed rack is disposed horizontally on the turret frame and extends along the arc of a circle in part of the zone swept by the arms during rotation of the hub. Each of the arms carries a pinion, whose teeth mesh with the teeth of the rack to induce rotation of each arm by 180.degree. to invert the mould or die carried on the end of the arm.
Claims8
A turret useful in foundry work for moulding and casting, said turret having a horizontal closed circuit, and comprising a plurality of arms rotatably mounted on and extending laterally from a rotating drum having a vertical axis of rotation, said drum being rotatably carried by a frame wherein said turret embodies a fixed rack disposed horizontally on the frame substantially along an arc of a circle, perpendicular to a part at least of the surface swept by the arms during rotation of the drum, and that each of said arms carries a pinion with a substantially horizontal axis of rotation, the teeth of which, upon meshing with those of the rack, cause rotation of the arm about its axis of rotation, each of said arms having a base with a substantially horizontal axis of rotation rotatably mounted on and extending substantially horizontally from said drum, said base carrying said pinion, each of said arms further having an intermediate portion inclined relative to said base and an end portion substantially parallel to said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.