Load handling
AssigneeRazedge Limited
InventorGlynn Arthur Ellis
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Abstract
An apparatus for handling a circular saw blade for performing operations on the blade at a work station includes a mechanism for carrying the blade between a supply stack of blades, the work station, and a blade off-loading location. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for supporting the supply stack of blades. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for transferring the blade between a second blade support mechanism carried by the carrying mechanism and a third blade support mechanism provided at the work station. The third blade support mechanism enables indexing of the blade through the work station.
Claims14
An apparatus for handling a circular saw blade for the purposes of performing a work operation on the blade at a work station comprising:
- means for carrying the blade between a supply stack of blades upon which the work operation is to be performed and the work station at which the work operation is performed on the blade, and for carrying the thus worked-upon blade to a blade off-loading position at which the blade can be off-loaded from the carrying means;
- means for supporting the supply stack of blades upon which the work operation is to be performed;
- means for transferring the blade from the supply stack onto a second blade support means carried by the carrying means, said means for transferring the blade, when at said work station, also enabling transfer of the blade from the second support means to a third support means provided at the work station, said third support means enabling indexing of the blade through the work station, and said transferring means also enabling transfer of the blade from the third blade support means back to the second support means on the carrying means for subsequent movement to the blade off-loading position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.