APPARATUS FOR SUCCESSIVELY FEEDING BLANKS TO ROBOT GRIP Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: automatic charging of manufacturing equipment with piece blanks. SUBSTANCE: apparatus includes frame that carries table. Endless conveyor with pallets placed with equal intervals is mounted on table. Traction flexible organ of conveyor is arranged over plane of table. There are grooves in bottom of pallets. Members made of easy-to-melt alloy are mounted in seats of pallets. In order to provide lifting of blanks, table has spring-loaded protrusion introduced into groove of pallets in position of blank discharging. EFFECT: enlarged manufacturing possibilities due to handling different types of blanks, simplified design of automatic line. 4 dwg