Hank transfer apparatus
AssigneeOfficine Minnetti di Ornella Raveggi & C. S.A.S.
InventorFederico Minnetti
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Abstract
A hank transfer apparatus for transferring hanks from a hank carrier (100) to a holding or transporting device, comprises, on a stationary structure (11, 12, 13) a movable head (72) carrying two parallel hank-holder rods (90, 91) extended therefrom, which can be moved near each other in a closing position for introduction into a hank hanging from a hank carrier, and moved away from each other to an opening position for removing a hank from its own hank-carrier; the head (72) is movable in three orthogonal directions and rotatable, by sliding members (25, 40, 70) and guides (15,16; 31,32; 63,64) and a rotational device (50).
Claims12
An apparatus for hank transfer from a hank-carrier to a holding or transporting device, said apparatus comprising a base (12, 13);
- a rod holding movable head (72) mounted for horizontal and vertical movement with respect to said base;
- a pair of extended rods (90, 91) on said head, which are substantially parallel to each other and movable with respect to said head between a closed approach position and a spread apart position;
- means for controlling the movement of said rods between said positions;
- and movement means for moving said head including means for moving said head in a direction substantially parallel with the direction in which said rods extend from said head, said rods in said closed approach position being positioned close to each other to minimize transverse dimensions of said rods.
An apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the movement for said carriage, slide and slider relative to said horizontal sliding bars or guides and said vertical uprights is provided by screw and nut screw control means (20, 23,41).
An apparatus for transferring hanks suspended from a carrier comprising:
- means for defining a support structure having a vertically extending portion;
- a slider device comprising a slide assembly;
- guide means carried by said vertically extending portion for guiding vertical movement of said slider device;
- horizontally-extending guide means carried by said slider device for guiding horizontal movement of said slide assembly;
- said slide assembly having a non-rotatable portion slidably guided by said horizontally-extending guide means and a rotatable portion connected to the non-rotatable portion;
- a pair of parallel rods;
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- means for connecting said rods to said rotatable portion so that said rods are movable between a first position in which the rods are closely spaced from each other and a second position in which the rods are spread apart from each other whereby the rods in the first position are insertable into a suspended hank and are movable into the second position to transfer the hank from the carrier to the rods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.