Method and a system for displacing objects
AssigneeGalram Technology Industries Limited
InventorDavid Tomer
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Abstract
A method and system for displacing objects, particularly flexible fabric layers, into a predetermined relative disposition wherein the objects are deposited on a supporting surface in a relatively spaced apart disposition, positional coordinates of each object are successively sensed and data relating thereto are stored in a programmed central processor unit, each object being then displaced with respect to a succeeding object, in an order reverse to the order of sensing so as to locate each object in a predetermined relative (preferably superimposed) disposition with respect to the position of the succeeding object as stored in the processor unit.
Claims15
A system for displacing substantially planar objects into a predetermined disposition, comprising:
- depositing means for depositing said objects on a supporting surface in a relatively spaced apart disposition;
- a tracking arm;
- a pair of spaced apart optical sensors carried by said tracking arm for successively sensing positional coordinates of each object and transmitting data relating to said coordinates for storage in a programmed central processor unit;
- arm displacing means for displacing said tracking arm over said supporting surface in any required direction;
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- object displacing means for displacing each object with respect to a succeeding object in an order reverse to the order of sensing so as to locate each object in a predetermined relative disposition with respect to the position of said succeeding object as stored in said processor unit, said object displacing means being formed integrally with said tracking arm and comprising an object gripping surface formed on said arm, said arm displacing means being capable of displacing said arm towards and away from said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.