DE7636987U1 - CONVEYOR OR TRANSPORT SYSTEM - Google Patents

Description

Herbert Morris Limited, Loughborough / England

Conveyor or transport system

The innovation relates to improvements to conveyors or transport systems for moving loads during or after of manufacture where the bearing surface of the load is not a flat plane and is therefore not suitable for transporting on a conventional roller conveyor.

According to the innovation, a transport system includes a lifting beam that is attached to a number of stations on a construction unit or construction part is extended, mounted on a bogie, lifted from this and on a support grid through

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Screw or other winches attached to the bogie lowered and driven by electric or other motors with guides being provided to control the vertical movement of the lifting beam while the bogie is on rails drives to move the load on the lifting beam from station to station.

The innovation is now based on the following drawings
described, namely show

1 shows a plan view of a workpiece serving as a workpiece support Support grid,

2 is an enlarged side view of a station,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section along line 3-3 of Fig. 1,

4 shows a side view of a loading device,

FIG. 5 is a plan view of FIG. 4,

6 shows a section along line 6-6 in FIG. 5,

7 shows an enlarged section along line 7-7 of FIG. 1,

8 shows an enlarged section along line 8-8 of FIG. 1,

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Fig. 9 and Io side views of further loading devices, 11 and 12 side views of two modified loading devices.

As applied to the manufacture of an assembly or device for installation in a ship, a variety of in-line units are available. Stations 1-8 are provided and the construction begins at station number 1 with the welding of plates together to give the system the required size, and the system then goes on to station 2, where further work is carried out and so on other stations, so that at station number 8 a heavy production item of, for example, the dimensions 12 12 meters and loo t weight or any size and weight can be transported. The number of work stations fluctuates Uschi d. £ 2T Art cLs ^ T ä. "2TCil * Su £ Uhr ¹ ? ™ '?'?!" ¹ ii "Vieif. To the Anlaoen REMISSION in many industries may be employed. A station number 9 can be provided in which load the facilities on the road transport vehicle, or can easily be added to another part of the plant facilities by Verladegeräte or transport devices as well.

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Each transport device or each loading bogie consists of a transport body 11, which is on two or more drive wheels 12 is mounted and by an electric motor 13 with an intermediate gear and a chain or belt drive (Fig. 6) or by means of Electric or hydraulic motor in connection with reduction gears,

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Spur gears, chain or belt drives are driven. The drive wheels 12 can be keyed on shafts, flow around in ball or roller bearings mounted on the body 11, or the ball or roller bearing can be installed in the drive wheels with fixed axles mounted in the main structure. A power take-off 14 can be installed (Fig. 9), because the drive wheels run on the rail track 15. The lifting beam 16 is raised or lowered in the transport device illustrated by hydraulic winches 17 operated by the power supply units 18 are fed, but can also by screw jacks driven by an electric motor 29 with an intermediate gear 29 (or an electric motor via a clutch and reduction gears) or driven by spur gears and racks. The guides 19 are built in to to control the direction of movement of the lifting beam 16.

Electric power for the traction drive 13 and 14 to control the various movements is supplied by means of lead wires and pantographs 2o or fed by cable and rope drum. For setting the loading devices 11 under the load units the control panel provides a suitable counting device for each unit, which contributes its position in relation to a particular stand line each workstation specifies.

During the production of sheet metal, panel assemblies and Plate blocks at the various workstations, it is

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It is necessary to carry out a so-called "fairing" process, which involves aligning two or more components before welding them together and the associated equipment for its implementation means for the installation of the loading device. This "fairing" process takes place by lifting the sheet metal by the action of forces on its underside, bringing them together with the Lower die or the individual stiffening parts, damii. the welding process can take place. The forces required will be holding by mounting a number of hydraulic jacks 21 on the body; the force is to be applied to the selected plate surface; In order to achieve a more precise setting, the loading relocating device can be moved forwards or backwards.

An alternative method to the “fairing” process is achieved by using a movable “fairing” winch 22 (FIG. 11) which is mounted on a bogie 23 on wheels 24 on rails 15 ^a on the transport body 11.

In the case of the winch 22 described above, all reaction forces pass through the body 11 of the transporter, the drive wheels and the rail track 5 to the earth; where, however, very large "fairing" -Krä- ^(r te are required, the high structural stresses and Radbeanspruchungen result, these (by means of a double-extension hydraulic winch Fig. 12) can be reduced, which the fairing force directly to the rail track 15 and the earth transmits.

Both types of movable fairing winches 21, 22, 25 could drive

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drive unit (forwards and backwards), as for the driving movement of the loading device described include; the supply of electric current, the control and adjustment of the correspond to the design described for the main loading device.

I In order to load the load on the transporter or loading device more evenly

i to distribute the rails 15, the bogie 11 can on the · ■

full length of the beam 16 can be extended on additional rails I2 ^a (Fig. 9 and lo).

Fig. 8 shows how the load from conveyor 27 is transferred to beam 16 for conveyance by the loading device.

Under normal working conditions, one, two or more transporters or loading devices are used to move a load unit used and electrically or electronically controlled to enable simultaneous actuation of the various individual movements enable. Raising the bar, lowering the bar, moving the device forwards and backwards.

1-3 show a production line as it is used in manufacture of sheet metal (joining two or more sheets), sheet assemblies (Sheet metal welded to die or individual stiffening parts) and sheet blocks (one connection assemblies of panels and welding them together) are required for shipbuilding. The street contains a number

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from workstations 1-8, where the work of the manufacture of Metal panels progresses through the various work stages to complete the panel assemblies or panel blocks.

The board compositions or board blocks can be almost unlimited Be large and weigh several hundred tons.

^ The workstations include multi-strand conveyors 27, the Chains with idlers are included for unstiffened panels where the loader passes between the chain strands 26 to carry the load to implement on a support grid according to FIG.

In operation, the transporter or the loading device are under a Load unit driven by remote control, the lifting beam 16 is then raised and lifts the load from the support grid 28 or conveyor 27, where it stood during one of the manufacturing processes. The charger is then transferred to the next selected workstation.

drive, where the lifting beam 16 is lowered and the load is deposited on the support grid for another production process. In the end becomes the completed table compilation or table block moved by the transporter or the loading device to station 9, where they are deposited on a road vehicle and to the ship is driven for the purpose of assembly or is transported directly to a place where it is placed directly on the ship by crane or is withdrawn for storage.

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Guide rollers or rails 28 may be provided on the support grid 28 to support the load thereon.

Protection claims

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Claims (4)

Protection claims 1. Loading device for moving a load from station to station during the production of a structural part, characterized by a lifting beam, which is mounted on a bogie or underframe and lifted off the bogie or underframe and onto a support grid Screws or other winches are lowered, which are mounted on the bogie or undercarriage, with guides for steering the vertical movement of the lifting beam are provided and the bogie or base moves on rails to the load to be transported on the lifting beam from station to station. 2. Loading device according to claim 1, characterized characterized in that additional winches (22) are mounted on the bogie or undercarriage. 3. Loading device according to claim 2, characterized in that the winches (22) via rotary or Underframes are attached to roll on rails carried by the transporter or loading equipment. 4. Loading device according to claim 2 and 3, characterized in that double extension winches (22) used to transfer the forces directly to the earth.