Device for manipulating sheet metal pieces
AssigneeAmada Company, Limited
InventorsFranco Sartorio, Mario Scavino, Stefano Vergano
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Abstract
A device (12; 102) for manipulating sheet metal pieces (P) for a sheet metal processing machine (10; 101) is disclosed. The device (12; 102) comprises a plurality of manipulator units (20, 22; 106, 108, 110) with a plurality of gripping elements (32, 50, 52; 118, 126, 134) for gripping and moving the sheet metal pieces (P) so that the units (20, 22; 106, 108, 110) cooperate with one another in receiving a workpiece (P) from the associated processing machine (10; 101) and passing another workpiece (P) to the processing machine as well as such receiving from and passing to an associated device (4) for loading and discharging sheet metal pieces to utilize the processing machine (10; 101) as far as possible reducing its down times.
Claims7
A manipulator device for a sheet metal processing machine, the sheet metal processing machine having a pair of tools extending along a reference line A, the manipulator device comprising:
- a main manipulator unit movable in front of the processing machine and having at least one gripping element for gripping a sheet metal workpiece, the main manipulator unit being adapted to take up a sheet metal workpiece from and pass a sheet metal workpiece to the processing machine;
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- an associated auxiliary manipulator unit having first and second gripping elements, each of the first and second gripping elements taking up a sheet metal workpiece from the main manipulator unit and passing a sheet metal workpiece to the main manipulator unit, said auxiliary manipulator unit including means for rotating the first and the second gripping elements about a certain axis perpendicular to a reference line of the processing machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.