US 5,205,026 AGranted

Production installation

OwnerWalter Stichtinventor

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Abstract

The invention relates to a production installation (1) for assembling and/or processing components (3) made up of a plurality of piece parts (4). In this installation, the piece parts (4) and/or the components (3) are disposed and/or assembled and/or processed on pallet trays (6). The pallet trays (6) are interchangeably disposed on the running mechanisms (2). The running mechanisms (2) are guided along the conveyor track of a conveying device. The conveyor track has parallel conveying paths (19) which are disposed in sections parallel to a main conveying at (18) and are connected by transverse conveying paths (21) to the main conveying path (18). A subsidiary conveying path (20) is associated with the parallel conveying path (19), directly adjacent and extending parallel to it. This subsidiary conveying path is preferably connected by transfer stations to the transverse conveying or parallel conveying path (21 or 19) and/or to the main conveying path(18).

Claims7

Dependent claims

A production installation for assembling or processing structural components comprised of individual parts, which comprises

(a) carriages supporting pallet trays carrying the structural components or the individual parts,
(b) a conveyor track comprised of individual and separable conveyor track sections, each conveyor track section comprising
(1) vertical and lateral guideways for the carriages,
(c) a feed device at each conveyor track section operable for conveying the carriages independently of each other along the vertical and lateral guideways of the conveyor track, and
(d) the conveyor track defining
(1) a main conveying path for transporting the carriages in a conveying direction,
(2) a conveying path extending parallel to the main conveying path,
(3) two connecting conveying paths spaced from each other in the conveying direction and extending transversely to the conveying direction between the main conveying path and the parallel conveying path,
(4) an auxiliary conveying path extending between, and parallel to, the main conveying path and the parallel conveying path, and
(5) respective ones of the conveyor track sections constituting transport stations for the carriages and junction stations respectively interconnecting the transversely extending conveying paths with the main conveying path, the auxiliary conveying path and the parallel conveying path, the vertical and lateral guideways on the junction stations guiding the carriages for one of the conveying paths to the interconnected conveying path.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/504,976Filed 4 Apr 1990
Priority: AT A791/894 Apr 1989
Granted: 27 Apr 1993
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

B23P 21/004
Machines for assembling a multiplicity of different parts to compose units, with or without preceding or subsequent working of such parts, e.g.…:…
B23Q 7/1426
Co-ordinated in production lines: with work holders not rigidly fixed to the transport devices
B65G 37/02
Combinations of mechanical conveyors of the same kind, or of different kinds, of interest apart from their application in particular machines or…:…
B65G 2201/0261
Containers: puck as article support