Conveyance apparatus
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidenobu Nishida, Shunichi Furusawa
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Abstract
A carrier 3 that is moveably supported on the side of a conveyor 2 is provided with a rotational shaft 4 projecting laterally therefrom. A workpiece 1 is mounted on the rotational shaft 4 in an upright condition, wherein the workpiece 1 is arranged to vertically rotate 360° in the same plane by rotating the rotational shaft 4 360° around its axis. With this construction, the workpiece position can be continuously changed to a floor conveyor position, an overhead conveyor position and to the floor conveyor position without transfer of the workpiece 1.
Claims11
A conveyance apparatus having a conveyor for supporting a workpiece and adapted to allow the workpiece to pass thorough a plurality of treating processes while changing a workpiece position, wherein a position control mechanism for changing the workpiece position is provided so that the workpiece position required for each treating process can be continually changed without transfer of the workpiece,
- wherein the position control mechanism provides a floor conveyor position which supports the workpiece above the conveyor and an overhead conveyor position which hangs and supports the workpiece below the conveyor.
A conveyance apparatus having a conveyor for supporting a workpiece through a carrier and adapted to allow the workpiece to pass through a plurality of treating processes while changing a workpiece position, wherein a part of the conveyor is arranged to serve as a moveable portion and a rotational means is provided to rotate the moveable portion in a plane at right angles to the direction of travel, wherein the rotational means rotates the moveable portion together with the carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.