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US 4,790,750 AGranted
Automated flexible installation for a rapid thermochemical treatment
AssigneeStein Heurtey
InventorsJean Bourel, Denis Lebeaupin, Olivier Schweibel
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Abstract
An automated installation for the rapid thermochemical treatment of parts, notably for the mechanical industry, characterized in that it includes: a transfer lock for the parts under a controlled atmosphere; a plurality of treatment modules of the parts, all said modules being connected to said transfer lock; a loading lock; an unloading lock, and a handling robot for the parts, disposed in said transfer lock in order to provide for the successive transfers of parts between the various modules.
Claims12
An automated installation for the thermochemical treatment of parts comprising:
- (a) a transfer lock for exposing said parts to a controlled atmosphere;
- (b) a plurality of treatment modules associated with the transfer lock, said plurality of treatment modules comprising means for thermochemically treating said parts, each of said treatment modules being mounted stationary on the outside of said transfer lock for direct transfer of said parts between each of said modules through said transfer lock;
- (c) a loading lock for loading said parts into said transfer lock;
- (d) an unloading lock for unloading said parts from said transfer lock;
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- (e) a handling robot positioned within said transfer lock for successively transferring said parts from one of said modules to another of said modules through said transfer lock.
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