Compliance apparatus and methods for gripping and...

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B21D 43/00 (2006.01) B21D 43/18 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2098149

Compliance apparatus, for gripping and transporting workpiece sheets such as appliance door blanks to be formed to and from a work station having precision locator sheet stop surfaces, is mounted on a carrier for travel in a generally horizontal path toward the work station. The compliance apparatus includes a plurality of generally horizontally spaced apart, workpiece- aligned suction grippers for collectively gripping the top surface of a workpiece sheet. Resilient mechanism connecting each of the grippers to the carrier provides for relative individual lateral movement of the sheet carrying grippers from neutral positions to positions displaced therefrom in any required direction, as dictated by the sheet engaging one of the locator sheet stop surfaces and being forced to a correctly aligned position in engagement with the other locator sheet stop surface as the carrier moves in its said path of travel. The resilient mechanism restores each gripper to original neutral position when the workpiece leaves the work station and normally maintains it in neutral position.

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