Transfer device
AssigneeAida Engineering, Ltd.
InventorsToshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
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Abstract
A transfer device having high productivity and is compact. The present invention uses cross bars that have a blank attachment member that are suitable for transferring large blank materials that, prior to processing, do not have rigidity. These large blank materials have a tendency to sag in the center and are difficult to transport. The present invention also jointly uses fingers that are suitable for rapid transport of blank materials that, after processing, are molded and have rigidity.
Claims11
A transfer device for transferring a material, comprising:
- a plurality of stages disposed in a transfer direction, including an idle stage, a first stage, and a second stage;
- a plurality of feed rails disposed along said transfer direction,
- a first transfer system comprising:
- a cross bar spanning said feed rails;
- an attachment member disposed along said cross bar enabling attachment to said material;
- and
- a second transfer system comprising:
- a plurality of fingers disposed in relation to said feed rails in a transfer direction, wherein said first transfer system transfers said material from said idle stage to said first stage and said second transfer system transfers said material from said first stage to said second stage, thereby said transfer device enables movement of said material at a high rate of speed while maintaining a compact size.
A transfer device, being a transfer device having a pair of parallely arranged feed bars, wherein:
- two types of transferring devices are jointly used;
- one type of transferring device includes a pair of cross bars (17) that span said feed bars and that have a blank attachment member (18) and are used for transferring a blank material, which has been brought to an idle stage (23) of said transfer device, to a next first stage;
- a second type of transferring device is fingers (22) for gripping blank end parts and are used for each downstream stage from a second stage (25) and beyond of said feed bars (6).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.