Equipment for the lateral transference of pipes
AssigneeInnse Innocenti Santeustacchio S.p.A.
InventorsFilippo Cattaneo, Agostino Perrone
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Abstract
Equipment for transferring pipes from one roller track to an adjacent parallel roller track includes at least two transfer units, each of which comprises a pipe chute extending transversely to the roller tracks and movable angularly between a lowered position below the tracks and a raised position above the tracks. In the raised position the chute is inclined downwardly, so that a pipe lifted by the chute rolls along the latter and comes to rest on a curvilinear end portion of the chute when it reaches a position above the roller track onto which the pipe is to be transferred.
Claims2
Equipment for the lateral transference of pipes from one roller track to an adjacent parallel roller track, comprising at least two identical transfer units spaced apart in the direction of the said roller tracks, wherein each said unit comprises
- a horizontal shaft extending perpendicularly to the roller tracks and below them,
- a pipe chute supported cantilever-fashion by said shaft and extending transversely to the said roller tracks, said pipe chute having:
- an intermediate rectilinear portion converging with said horizontal shaft towards the roller track onto which a pipe is to be transferred;
- a curvilinear end portion with a convex part turned towards the shaft and extending from one end of said intermediate portion and across the said roller track to which the said pipe is to be transferred, and an end portion directed away from the said shaft and extending from the other end of said intermediate portion and across the roller track from which the said pipe is to be transferred, and
- means for moving the said pipe chute angularly about the axis of said shaft between a lowered position in which it is completely below said roller tracks and a raised position in which it is completely above them.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.