Abstract:
In one embodiment, a system for removing a plastic wrap from a cylindrical module includes a conveyor transporting the cylindrical module toward a disperser with the cylindrical axis of the module parallel to the direction of conveyor movement. In another embodiment, the disperser is a travelling head disperser thereby providing relative movement between the modules and the disperser. The direction of the wrap around the module is determined and the cover is removed during rotation of the module, either by unwrapping the plastic or by slitting the plastic and then rotating the module. The equipment used to handle a cylindrical module is moved out of the path of movement of a conventional rectangular module so an installation can handle both rectangular and wrapped cylindrical modules.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a system for removing a plastic wrap from a cylindrical module includes a conveyor transporting the cylindrical module toward a disperser with the cylindrical axis of the module parallel to the direction of conveyor movement. In another embodiment, the disperser is a travelling head disperser thereby providing relative movement between the modules and the disperser. The direction of the wrap around the module is determined and the cover is removed during rotation of the module, either by unwrapping the plastic or by slitting the plastic and then rotating the module. The equipment used to handle a cylindrical module is moved out of the path of movement of a conventional rectangular module so an installation can handle both rectangular and wrapped cylindrical modules.
Abstract:
A walking-beam conveyor has a horizontally extending movable beam flanked by a pair of horizontally extending fixed beams. This movable beam is subdivided into a relatively long main portion and a relatively short end portion. The entire movable beam can be reciprocated through a relatively short vertical stroke and horizontally through a horizontal stroke for stepwise displacement of a load supported on the beams. In addition the end portion can be vertically displaced through a relatively long vertical stroke for picking a load, as for instance a sheet-metal coil, up off a machine, as for instance a winding machine, and for similarly lifting up a load to be discharged onto a higher location.
Abstract:
This invention is a wire and transport system for a communication cable manufacturing facility. Bobbins wound with insulated wire roll down a bobbin track from a location where the wires are drawn and covered with a layer of insulation. A number of full bobbins accumulate on the track, and they are transferred to an elevator that delivers them to a multi-layer inventory storage rack. Final alignment of the elevator with the tracks and compartments of the inventory storage rack is under the control of electronic apparatus; but the positioning of the elevator in the vicinity of the selected track or storage compartment is controlled by an operator who rides on a carriage on which the elevator shaft is mounted.
Abstract:
This invention receives paired bobbins from a pairing machine, stores the various bobbins of a given color coding in separate compartments of a rack, and selectively discharges bobbins to an elevator in accordance with the demand from a cabling machine. The elevator extends for the length of the rack and receives the desired bobbins with the color coded pairs called for by remote control from the cabling machine. The compartments of the storage racks slope in a direction that cause bobbins to roll from the rack by gravity on to the elevator; and the elevator slopes to discharge bobbins by gravity to a floor conveyor that carries them to the cabling machine.
Abstract:
A transfer and accumulating apparatus is provided wherein trays, which are typically part of a ferris-wheel type storage/accumulation apparatus, are also used as a major part of the transfer apparatus. A pusher such as a powered chain with pusher dogs thereon is used to push the articles to be transferred (and stored) onto and across the trays. The apparatus is particularly well adapted to handle logs (i.e., long rolls) of rewound paper since there is no rolling movement and the attendant unwinding of the ''''logs''''.
Abstract:
A transfer device comprising an automatic lifting unit, the transfer device includes: a barcode reader for reading a barcode attached to a box accommodating a bobbin loaded with raw materials; a fork unit for chucking the bobbin; a traveling drive unit; and a control unit. The control unit controls Z-axis centering of the fork unit in conjunction with the barcode reader and the distance sensor, X-axis centering of the fork unit in conjunction with the chucking sensor, and Z-axis elevation and Y-axis movement of the fork unit, respectively, to automatically control lifting of the bobbin.
Abstract:
A method for storing cardboard tubes (2) in a storing unit according to the present invention comprising the following steps: providing a storage unit with an input section for the tubes (2), a storage section (AC) comprising a plurality of storing planes (13), an output section for the tubes (2), transfer means (3) for transferring the tubes (2) from the input section to the storage section, and discharge means for conveying the tubes (2) from the storing section to the output section; providing a plurality of cardboard tubes (2) in the input section (E) of said storage unit; transferring the tubes (2) from the input section of the storage unit to the storage section; storing a plurality of tubes (2) in said storage section (AC); transferring the tubes (2) from said storage section (AC) to said output section. The step of transferring the tubes (2) from said input section to said storage section involves more tubes (2) simultaneously, whereby a plurality of tubes (2) are transferred from said input section simultaneously on a plurality of storing planes (13) of the storage section (AC).
Abstract:
A large cylindrical body such as a paper roll carried on a pallet is transferred to a transfer conveyor by placing the pallet on a platform carried on a platform support recessed in the floor movable to a lowered position in which the top surface of the pallet is level with the floor. A roll pusher with two rollers on a pusher head is moved out of an under floor receptacle across the top surface of the pallet so that the cylindrical body rolls off the pallet to a locating system at the transfer conveyor on one side of the platform. A pallet pusher abutment is moved across the platform in a slot to push the pallet along an edge guide at right angles to the rolling direction off the platform on to the floor.