Automatic system for assembly and welding metal sheet bodies, particularly car bodies, suitable for high mass production
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1. An automatic system for the production of sheet metal bodies, comprising:
- means defining a single body-processing station for receiving a plurality of bodies to be welded;
a pair of stores vertically elevated above and positioned on opposing sides of said single body-processing station;
a plurality of forming-welding assemblies contained in said stores, said forming-welding assemblies having welding and auxiliary equipment including as many welding machines as there are welds to be made on one of said bodies, whereby a plurality of welds may be performed on each of said bodies simultaneously;
conveying means for moving said forming-welding assemblies around in said stores and for raising and lowering respective pairs of said forming-welding assemblies between said pair of stores and said single body-processing station;
positioning means, provided at said single body-processing station, for positioning each pair of said forming-welding assemblies in a proper operative position alongside one of said bodies to be produced at said single body-processing station; and
means for providing electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic connections to said forming-welding assemblies for operating said welding and auxiliary equipment thereon when said forming-welding assemblies are respectively at said operative position.
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An automatic system for the production of metal sheet bodies, preferably car metal bodies, which is composed of a plurality of forming-welding assemblies contained in stores so that they can be preselected and carried each in correspondence with an assembly station where the body components are fed, handled and assembled by means of welding through the intervention of a pair of such assemblies respectively positioned on opposite sides of the body.
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1. An automatic system for the production of sheet metal bodies, comprising:
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means defining a single body-processing station for receiving a plurality of bodies to be welded; a pair of stores vertically elevated above and positioned on opposing sides of said single body-processing station; a plurality of forming-welding assemblies contained in said stores, said forming-welding assemblies having welding and auxiliary equipment including as many welding machines as there are welds to be made on one of said bodies, whereby a plurality of welds may be performed on each of said bodies simultaneously; conveying means for moving said forming-welding assemblies around in said stores and for raising and lowering respective pairs of said forming-welding assemblies between said pair of stores and said single body-processing station; positioning means, provided at said single body-processing station, for positioning each pair of said forming-welding assemblies in a proper operative position alongside one of said bodies to be produced at said single body-processing station; and means for providing electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic connections to said forming-welding assemblies for operating said welding and auxiliary equipment thereon when said forming-welding assemblies are respectively at said operative position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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