Patents Assigned to Peeples Industries, Inc.
  • Apparatus for gripping and lifting objects positioned in rows
    Patent number: 4968212
    Abstract: An apparatus for gripping and lifting closely packaged objects formed in rows and adjacent one another having a main horizontal beam, end gripper units adjustable through power means and self-positioning cross gripper units intermediate the end grippers. The grippers having elongated fingers which depend from the gripper units are powered toward the object to grip it and powered away from the object to release it. The objects are shaped and positioned to form spaces therebetween even when tangent to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Peeples Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: John O. McNamara