US 5,957,055 AGranted

Container-transporting system with rails

AssigneeNoell Stahl-und Maschinenbau GmbH

InventorsReinhard Bauer, Walter Hafel, Edgar Huth, Otto Weis

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Abstract

A container-transporting system with tracks, linear motors and rotatable wheels. The system includes a network of tracks which are arranged transversely at right angles with respect to one another and parallel to one another and form points of intersection. Guide rails are arranged in the tracks outside the points of intersection and have track-bound transporting carriages moving on them by way of running wheels which can be turned about a pivot spindle. The distances between the running wheels correspond to the distances between the tracks. The running wheels, which are enclosed by horizontal guide rollers, can be rotated in the points of intersection. Magnets are arranged on the transporting carriage in the longitudinal and transverse directions and, by way of stators of the track, move the transporting carriage in the longitudinal and transverse directions. Pivoting slides, which are arranged on the transporting carriage, turn the running rollers.

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Dependent claims

A container-transporting system, comprising:

a network of tracks arranged transversely at right angles with respect to one another and parallel to one another, so as to form points of intersection, the network of tracks including rails arranged outside the points of intersection;
a transporting carriage including a pivot spindle, wheels mounted to the pivot spindle so as to be turnable about the pivot spindle, and horizontal guide rollers, the wheels being arranged to have a distance therebetween that corresponds to the distance between the rails, the wheels being turnable in the points of intersection via the guide rollers;
stators arranged on at least one of the tracks;
magnets arranged on the transporting carriage in both longitudinal and transverse directions so as to operatively cooperate with the stators so as to move the transporting carriage in the longitudinal and transverse directions;
a displacement carriage on the transporting carriage;
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a linkage and an articulated lever operatively mounted on the displacement carriage between the wheels and the guide rollers so as to turn the wheels with the horizontal guide rollers.

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