Pantographic device for conveying loads in vehicle assembly lines

• US 6,857,529 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2002
• Issued: 02/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Transportes Continuos Interiores SA
• Original Assignee: Transportes Continuos Interiores SA
• Inventors: Lopez Alba, Adelardo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kramer, Dean J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOWE, MICHAEL S
• Application Number:
  US10/305,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20040101393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 414/680, 414/681, 414/626, 212/273, 212/319, 212/333, 212/334
• US Class Current: 212/273
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/18 Transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines conveyors and haulage in general B65G
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/06 for minimising or preventing longitudinal or transverse swinging of loads

Abstract

A pantographic device for conveying loads in vehicle assembly lines includes a horizontal assembled drive shaft on an upper frame and with the capacity to rotate, several parallel pulleys fixed to a drive shaft, two motors acting on the opposing ends of the drive shaft providing its rotational movement, and several flat belts fixed to the pulleys of the drive shaft on one end and two a lower frame on the opposite end, so that the rotation of the drive shaft in one direction and the other determines vertical lifting and lowering of the lower frame with regard to the upper frame.

Claims

1. Pantographic device for conveying loads in vehicle assembly lines;

of the type having an elevated guide rail (1), a shiftable carriage (2) assembled on the elevated guide rail (1), an upper frame (3) suspended from the shiftable carriage (2), a vertically shiftable lower frame (4), articulated arms (5) joining the upper frame (3) and the lower frame (4), an arm (41) on the lower frame (4) for holding the vehicle load and lifting mechanism for changing the height of the lower frame with regard to the upper frame;

characterized in that the lifting mechanism comprises;

a horizontally assembled drive shaft (6) on the upper frame (3) and with the capacity to rotate, several parallel pulleys (7) fixed to the drive shaft (6), two motors (8, 9) acting on the opposing ends of the drive shaft (6) providing it rotational movement and several flat belts (10) fixed to the respective pulleys (7) of the drive shaft (6) on one end and to the lower frame (4) on the opposite end, the rotation of the drive shaft (6) in one direction and the other determining the vertical lifting and lowering of the lower frame (4) respectively with regard to the upper frame (5).