Production installation
OwnerWalter Stichtinventor
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Abstract
A production installation comprises carriages supporting pallet trays carrying structural components or individual parts for assembly or processing, identical couplings for detachably coupling each one of the pallet trays to a respective carriage, a container for the structural components or individual parts readily exchangeably arranged on each pallet tray, a conveyor track comprised of individual and separable conveyor track sections, each conveyor track section comprising vertical and lateral guideways for the carriages, and 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.
Claims21
A method of assembling individual parts to produce structural components in a production installation comprising a conveyor track defining two parallel conveying paths spanned, at a work station, by a handling device comprising at least one exchangeable grab tool for the individual parts, which comprises the steps of
- (a) conveying a carriage supporting a pallet tray carrying an exchangeable grab tool for the handling device to the handling device along one of the conveying paths,
- (b) causing the handling device to take the exchangeable grab tool from the pallet tray,
- (c) conveying the carriage from the handling device to an idle position,
- (d) conveying another carriage supporting a pallet tray carrying the individual parts to the handling device,
- (e) causing the grab tool on the handling device to grab one of the individual parts from the pallet tray and to assemble the individual part on an assembly pallet positioned at the handling device on the conveying path parallel to the one conveying path, and
- (f) conveying another assembly pallet to the handling device on the parallel conveying path after the individual part has been assembled.
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) identical means for detachably coupling each one of the pallet trays to a respective one of the carriages,
- (c) a container for the structural components or individual parts arranged on each one of the pallet trays,
- (d) means for readily exchangeably holding each container on the pallet tray whereon it is arranged,
- (e) a conveyor track comprised of individual and separable conveyor track sections, each conveyor track section comprising
- (1) vertical and lateral guideways for the carriages, and
- 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.