Apparatus for mounting ready-made headliners into automotive bodies
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorsAdolf Kaller, Wilfried Michel, Josef Motzet
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Abstract
An apparatus for automatically mounting ready-made headliners into automotive bodies, comprising a jig selectively connectible to an assembly line conveyor to move synchronously therewith while performing the headliner mounting operation by moving a platform with a preferably adhesive coated headliner placed thereon through a window cut-out of a body, elevating the headliner into contact with the ceiling of the body while simultaneously moving a counter-pressure fixture against the roof of the body, and thereafter disconnecting from the conveyor to move in a direction opposite the movement of the conveyor, into a position for loading another headliner and reconnecting to the conveyor for another mounting cycle.
Claims19
An apparatus for mounting ready-made headliners into automotive bodies moved in a predetermined direction by conveyor means at a substantially constant speed and at predetermined intervals at least between first and second positions along an assembly line, comprising:
- a frame member mounted for movement parallel to said conveyor means between said first and second positions and comprising an opening for passing said automotive bodies therethrough;
- means for selectively connecting said frame member to said conveyor means for synchronous movement therewith from said first position to said second position;
- jig means mounted on said frame member and comprising a first horizontally disposed member for supporting a headliner thereon and a second substantially horizontally disposed member superposed over said first member;
- means for moving said first and second members between an elevated position in which said automotive bodies may pass through said opening and a lower position in which said first member is aligned with a window cut-out of one of said automobiles;
- means for moving said first member, when it is in its lower position, in a direction parallel to said predetermined direction between a position outside of said automotive body and a position inside of said automotive body;
- means for vertically moving said first member, when it is inside of said body and said frame member is connected to said conveyor means, between said inside position and a third position in which it presses said headliner into engagement with the ceiling of said automotive body;
- means for substantially simultaneously moving said second member into engagement with the roof of said automotive body to counteract the pressure exerted by said first member;
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- means for disconnecting said frame member from said conveyor means at said second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.