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US 9,156,633 B2Granted
Manipulator for flat objects
AssigneeAlpha-Tec Krimpmann GmbH
InventorManfred Krimpmann
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Abstract
A manipulator for flat objects has a robot arm having an outer end, a support on the outer end, and a magazine holding a stack of the flat objects carried on the support. A grab is movable on the support adjacent the magazine between a pickup position facing the stack and engageable with an uppermost flat object of the stack of flat objects in the magazine so as to pull the uppermost flat object off the stack and a transfer position offset from the stack with the picked-up flat object turned away from the magazine.
Claims16
A manipulator for flat objects, the manipulator comprising:
- a pair of relatively articulated robot arms having an outer end;
- a support pivotal on the outer end and movable by the arms about multiple nonparallel axes;
- a magazine holding a stack of the flat objects carried on the support;
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- a grab movable on the support adjacent the magazine between a pickup position facing the stack and engageable with an uppermost flat object of the stack of flat objects in the magazine so as to pull the uppermost flat object off the stack and a transfer position offset from the stack with the picked-up flat object turned away from the magazine.
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