Traversing Hoist Having Material-underlying Support Or Material Attracting Or Gripping Means Patents (Class 414/191)
  • Patent number: 8545158
    Abstract: A loading unit avoiding the need to enhance the performance of a lifting elevator mechanism, thus preventing an increase in the cost of the lifting elevator mechanism. The loading unit is configured to vertically move a substrate holder, holding a plurality of substrates, into and out of a cylindrical processing container upon heat treatment of the substrates. The loading unit includes: a lifting elevator mechanism for holding and vertically moving the substrate holder and a cap; and a pressing mechanism, having a piezoelectric actuator, for upwardly pressing against the cap lying at a bottom opening of the processing container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130136565
    Abstract: A system for picking and placing glass articles from a first location to a second location, the second location including a thermal reforming apparatus for transforming the glass articles from 2D glass articles to 3D glass articles includes a robot having an end effector, the end effector including a compliance assembly having at least six degrees of freedom. The compliance assembly is in fluid communication with both an open pneumatic system and a closed pneumatic system, the open pneumatic system providing a partial vacuum to a portion of the compliance assembly for grabbing the glass article, and the closed pneumatic system for activating a centering function for a portion of the compliance assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Amsden, Michael J. Anderson, Gail Dyer, Scott Michael Kabel, Stephen Kuo-Rui Liu, Kevin Lee Wasson
  • Patent number: 6422798
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for continuous treatment of objects in a processing unit, where the objects are moved along a conveyor track passing through the processing unit by a first linear-action conveyor device performing a back-and-forward movement and where the objects are supplied to/removed from the conveyor track by a transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Angewandte Solarenergie-Ase GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lauinger, Armin Aberle, Richard Auer, Guido Halbach, Manuel Kanne, Hanno Paschke, Jens Moschner
  • Patent number: 6261043
    Abstract: A material moving system is disclosed for use in a plant such as a metal foundry. There is an overhead gantry for moving a main hook and auxiliary hook. The main hook carries a container such as a scrap charge bucket. The auxiliary hook carries a multi-function auxiliary tool such as a magnet with a tool hook affixed to the magnet. The scrap charge bucket carries a target member on a saddle on the outside of the bucket. The bucket also has a hold out stand that positions the target member for easy accessibility. The target member is attached to actuator cables that are attached to clam shell bottom members of the scrap charge bucket. The auxiliary tool may be used to lift and pull the target member to open the clam shell members without removing the magnet from the auxiliary hook, saving time. The hook on the magnet is positioned so that the hook does not damage the scrap metal bins or electric arc furnaces when the magnet is used for its usual purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: AMSTED Industries Incorporated
    Inventors: Casey A. Weems, Douglas K. Jaskari, Mark S. Shirley, Craig L. Peters
  • Patent number: 6257819
    Abstract: A device for hooking, picking up and unloading flexible printed circuits to be introduced into a kiln, comprising one or more jaws to grip the circuit and to rotate freely around a horizontal axis—to supports which slide along vertical guides; handling systems adapted to move the supports along the vertical guides so as to move the jaws from the circuit feed position to the position in which the circuits are inserted into the kiln; systems designed to impose a slight rotation on the supports in at least one direction around the horizontal axis; and systems designed to activate the rotating pistons only at the circuit unloading stage after the treatment cycle in the kiln, so as to place the circuits in a slightly tilted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Alessandro Garioni
  • Patent number: 5848867
    Abstract: A storage rack is loaded and unloaded from the top with pallets carrying articles to be stored in and retrieved from the rack. The rack consists of a series of spaced columns arranged in parallel rows defining wells accessible from the top; the columns have vertically spaced, upwardly facing sets of steps protruding to an equal extent towards the centre of the wells. A crane is horizontally movable over the rack and stoppable above a selected well; it has a hoisting block which can be lowered between and guided by the columns of the selected well; a pair of hooks are pivoted to the hoisting block for movement towards and away from each other between opened and closed position; a pair of Z-shaped pallet holding beams adapted to carry a series of pallets aligned in end to end relation are suspended from the hooks and clear the steps when in closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Inventors: Pierre Gagnon, Pierre Laforest
  • Patent number: 5372469
    Abstract: A mobile cart for moving coil-shaped objects has a wheel-mounted horizontal base which supports an upwardly extending mast provided with a guideway along which a first support element is controllably movable up and down in a vertical direction above the base. A second support element is pivotably mounted at a proximate end to the first support element, and provides a horizontal guideway along which is suspended a downwardly depending clamp. On the base of the cart there is also provided an object support which, between two quarter-cylinder shaped horizontal support elements, has a gap of selected size. The clamp is operable to grasp a coil-shaped object, after which the first and second support elements are guidably moved upward, and the object supported by the clamps is horizontally moved to the object support. Lower distal end portions of the clamp slide into the gap and the coil-like object is lowered to rest on and be supported by an upper portion of the object support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Kobayashi Hansokiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takechiyo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5219150
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a duct with a tube assembly supported by a hanger that extends through an opening in the roof of the duct. A jack is provided to raise and lower the tube assembly during maintenance. The jack includes a base with an aperture therethrough and a pair of rollers attached to the underside of the base so that the jack can be moved across the roof. A pair of fluid operated cylinders are mounted on the base and project upward on opposite sides of the aperture. A jacking frame is attached to the other ends of both the cylinders and a rod extension passes through the base aperture for connecting the jacking frame to the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Deltak Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene S. Denysenko, Guy T. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5149353
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intermediate storage system mounted adjacent to a bending furnace in a windshield production line, said system comprising a first intermediate storage (1) for pairs of flat glass sheets and a second intermediate storage (2) for pairs of bent glass sheets. Each intermediate storage includes a number of separate storage racks (3) for pairs of glass sheets and a carrier trolley (5, 9) for pairs of glass sheets. A carrier trolley (5) in first storage (1) is controlled for carrying pairs of glass sheets one at a time from storage racks (3) to the proximity of the loading end of a bending furnace (11) and carrier trolley (9) in second storage (2) is controlled for carrying pairs of bent glass sheets from the proximity of the end of bending furnace (11) onto the storage racks (3) of second storage (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Tamglass Oy
    Inventors: Eero Sipila, Erkki Yli-Vakkuri
  • Patent number: 4360304
    Abstract: A horizontally extendable trolley 22 comprising a trolley frame 51 and wheels 52 for supporting trolley frame 51, and a horizontally elongated trailer frame 54 slidably mounted on frame 51, said trailer frame 54 having a first end extending beyond an end of frame 51, and auxiliary wheels 56 for supporting said first end. Trolley 22 includes: means for horizontally extending trailer frame 54 outwardly from the trolley frame 51 and retracting trailer frame 54 inwardly toward trolley frame 51; hoisting means mounted on trolley frame 51; auxiliary hoisting means mounted on trailer frame 54; and means for driving wheels 52. Crane 10 for use with trolley 22 and methods for the use of cranes employing trolley 22 in steel making operations are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Amca International Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce L. Brewer, Brooks E. Weingart
  • Patent number: 4286776
    Abstract: In an arrangement for capturing and conducting away flue gases forming during charging of, and pouring off from, metallurgical vessels in a steel-making plant, the material to be charged and poured off is brought into and out of the operating position by a container displaceable by means of a crane. The crane trolley is designed to form a displaceable unit with a hood having a draft opening. The hood, in the operating position, covers the container and the mouth of the metallurgical vessel, and the draft opening borders on the discharge opening of a chimney so as to form a flow connection therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Friedrich Laimer