Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gripping device
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Application No.: US14193678Application Date: 2014-02-28
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Publication No.: US08899646B2Publication Date: 2014-12-02
- Inventor: Nick Wilson , Lee Kuipers , Mark Burk
- Applicant: Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Glenwood
- Assignee: Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Glenwood
- Agency: Quinn Law Group, PLLC.
- Main IPC: B66C1/42
- IPC: B66C1/42 ; B25J15/00 ; B65G47/86 ; B65G47/90

Abstract:
A gripper formed as a single component includes a hoop portion connecting facing arms. Each arm may have a tang end, a jaw end and a pivot intermediate the tang and jaw ends and be attached to the hoop portion at the pivot to be pivotable to change the size of a jaw opening defined by the jaw ends. The hoop portion is cyclically loaded in use and configured to act as a stress concentrator for the gripper and provide a failure point for consistently initiating a failure crack in the hoop portion at time of failure of the gripper. Each of the facing arms is attachable to a base such that at failure, the fractured portions of the gripper are retained to the base.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140175819A1 GRIPPING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-06-26
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