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4575305 Truck mounted tube bundle pulling apparatus  
The apparatus for removing and reinserting tube bundles into heat exchanger shells features an over the road vehicle having a bed. A vertical telescoping column is rotatably mounted to the rear of...
4568238 Horizontal multi-link type robot  
A horizontal multi-link type robot has servomotors for rotating first and second arms, respectively. These servomotors are mounted to a first arm support shaft so as to be symmetrical with respect...
4566847 Industrial robot  
A positioning apparatus for positioning an arm of an industrial robot comprises a frame member connected to the robot arm and being movably supported by a frame-supporting member. The...
4566843 Multiarticulated manipulator  
A multiarticulated manipulator including a multijoint connecting mechanism having a plurality of arms, each arm having a joint capable of being bent in one plane and all the arms being connected...
4566726 Method and apparatus for handling semiconductor wafers  
A semiconductor wafer pickup device (26) making use of vacuum and Bernoulli effect in order to hold the wafer (11) against the device and to minimize wafer contamination. The wafer pickup device...
4566306 Method and apparatus for feeding materials to be pressed  
A method and apparatus is provided wherein a pressed material is withdrawn from a lower metal mold in a press in accordance with a horizontal, pivotal movement and a vertical, linear movement of a...
4561176 Six-axis head for correction of movements  
This invention has as its object a six-axis head for correction of movements equipping a mobile tool (12) for mating assembly of an element on a support. The head comprises an upper frame (10)...
4559718 Method and apparatus for drying semiconductor wafers  
A semiconductor wafer is held on a first rotating element in a manner having a first portion of one surface of the wafer stuck on the first rotating element. The first rotating element is rotated...
4557662 Industrial robot  
An industrial robot is disclosed in which inertia is reduced and backlash substantially eliminated by mounting motors for the first and second movable arms on a stationary stand, and transmitting...
4556362 Methods of and apparatus for handling semiconductor devices  
Apparatus (11) for handling articles (12), such as semiconductor devices, temporarily mounted to an adhesively coated surface of a diaphragm (29) of a mounting frame (21) includes an index table...
4556361 Opener apparatus and system utilizing same  
A vehicle door opener apparatus positioned in a work station such as a paint booth includes a rotary arm with its pivot axis substantially aligned with the door hinge axis in open and closed...
4553894 Method of and apparatus for transferring annular articles from one stage to another  
A method of and an apparatus for transferring annular articles from one stage to another, each article having a ferromagnetic element, comprising hanging the annular articles from a hanger bar...
4553892 Self aligning, load capacity enhancing, workpiece handling device for use with a robotic system  
A robot arm attachment tool for handling workpieces, such as information recording disks. The tool is self aligning, has enhanced load handling load capacities and is able to handle workpieces...
4553321 Method and apparatus for the automatic production of armatures for electric motors  
A method and apparatus for the production of armatures for small electric motors is provided wherein the armatures are clamped in specially designed workpiece holders and continuously processed in...
4550867 Shroud tube manipulating and supporting apparatus  
An apparatus for positioning and supporting a shroud tube in a metal teeming operation includes a boom assembly having one end pivotally mounted on a rigid structure for movement about a vertical...
4548536 Working apparatus with track following motion  
A working apparatus is provided with a head support horizontally pivotably carried by a link mechanism having first and second link elements, which mechanism is operable for horizontally freely...
4547120 Manipulator robot  
A work-performing manipulator robot having a base, a turret rotatable on the base about a vertical axis, a vertical arm rotatably mounted on the turret for rotation about a horizontal axis at a...
4547115 Apparatus for transporting and aligning panel-like members  
Panel-like members are aligned as they are transferred sequentially from a pick-up station to a discharge station by a primary carriage mounted for linear movement selectively to the pick-up...
4540332 Swivel device  
A swivel device for supporting a swivel unit thereon, including a hollow main frame and a comparatively slender rotatable shaft disposed upright within the hollow frame, connectable to the swivel...
4536124 Revolving-ladle turret for continuous casting steel plants  
A revolving-ladle turret having a turret member furnished with a pair of ladle-carrying arms, mounted on a platform which rotates about a vertical axis. The turret member is supported by a pair of...
4534389 Interlocking door latch for dockable interface for integrated circuit processing  
A particle-free dockable interface with an interlocking latch is disclosed for linking together two spaces each enclosing a clean air environment and preventing the opening of the interface without...
4532970 Particle-free dockable interface for integrated circuit processing  
A particle-free dockable interface is disclosed for linking together two spaces each enclosing a clean air environment. The interface is composed of interlocking doors on each space which fit...
4527942 Electronic test head positioner for test systems  
A system for positioning an electronic test head of a test system with respect to an electronic device handler. A housing is provided having a vertical shaft. A positioner assembly moves vertically...
4527936 Automatic plant for stacking sheet metal pressings  
An automatic plant for stacking sheet steel pressings received from a press line comprises a pivotal depositing table (5) with two depositing devices (7,8) at each of which several pressings can be...
4521844 Manipulator control system and apparatus for decontaminating nuclear steam generators  
A manipulator control system uses a microprocessor to compute appropriate control parameters in order to maintain constant tangential velocity of a spray nozzle in relation to the inside surface of...
4520596 Grinding or polishing machine for optical lenses  
A machine is of the type comprising an oscillating movable head with a tool-holding spindle, driven in rotation above a lens-support. The lens-support is borne by a vertically movable spindle which...
4516447 Numerically controlled groove-stamping machine  
A numerically controlled groove-stamping machine which includes an indexing unit rotatable stepwise by means of a positioning drive about a rotational axis as a function of a stroke of a punch of...
4515507 Method and apparatus for holding and centering electronic component  
Method and apparatus for holding an electronic component prior to its placement on a circuit substrate. The component sucked by a sucker is first centered in one direction by closing movements of a...
4514136 Pivot angle adjusting means for the arm of a material handling device  
Pivot angle adjusting means for the arm of a material handling device such as industrial robots are disclosed. An arm connected to a rotary shaft via a mount is pivotably mounted to a support. A...
4510683 Force assembler apparatus for robots  
A programmable force assembler for robots includes a bi-directionally actuatable slide member. A microprocessor is programmable for controlling insertion force independent of the distance moved by...
4507044 Robot and control system  
A compact robot of the 3-axis type comprising a base-mounted motor control system with means to sense the position of a robot arm through a servo-system comprising position-sensing potentiometers...
4504186 Turret stacker  
A transporting device for lifting and relocating material from one position to another. In one embodiment, the transporting device comprises a stationary central support pedestal and a rotatable...
4502830 Industrial robot  
An industrial robot having a trunk mounted for vertical and rotational movement on a stationary base is provided with two arm members extensible from the said trunk having a robot wrist mechanism...
4502828 Automated sheet-moving system  
An automated sheet-moving system for moving sheets from a printing press and to a bindery and with a fully automated system where the sheets need not be manually handled. The sheets are initially...
4501527 Device for automatically transporting disk shaped objects  
Device for the automatic transport of disk shaped objects from a discharge cassette adjustable in height through a position adjusting station to an inspection table and further into depository...
4492512 Amplified motion transmitting device  
A material handling device including gripping means for gripping and moving a workpiece along linear and angular paths from a first location to a second location. First and second cam and follower...
4492511 Conveyor robot  
A conveyor robot with a double arm with engaging members at both ends which are rotatable about a vertical axis and in a particular case additionally swingable about a horizontal axis. Both...
4487239 Hydraulic wood splitter with automatic cable hoist  
A hydraulic wood splitter with an automatic hoist for lifting logs onto the platform of the splitter. The splitter has a splitting wedge adjacent one end of the platform, and an extensible and...
4483654 Workpiece transfer mechanism  
A loadlock apparatus for a workpiece processing chamber such as those incorporated in vacuum processing systems. The apparatus includes an isolation chamber having evacuation apertures and...
4483652 Two-arm rotary loader and method of operation  
This is a rotary loader for transfer of cargo containers, flat beds or pallets, racks, or other loads to and from railroad cars or vehicles moving by and is rotated to turn either end to a dock or...
4481896 Flexible material stacker  
An apparatus for handling flexible material positioned with two distal portions thereof accessible to the apparatus has a frame, first and second arms each having first and second ends, with the...
4466769 Industrial robot  
An industrial robot having a robot hand attached to a robot arm, a rotary motion unit supporting therein the robot arm, a vertical motion unit on which the rotary motion unit is disposed, and a...
4457659 Article exchange apparatus  
An article exchange apparatus which can be used in an auto-loader having an exchange arm, an automatic tool exchange apparatus of a machine tool and the like, comprises an indexing mechanism...
4452433 Carrying tower arrangement for a metallurgical vessel  
A carrying tower for a metallurgical vessel includes at least one carrying arm cantilevering from a non-rotatable carrying column and pivotable about the carrying column, which carrying arm carries...
4449883 Contact positioning apparatus  
The contact positioning apparatus comprises a plurality of contact holding portions (11, 11') adapted to receive a series of contacts at a first pitch and to deliver the contacts to a second,...
4444541 Air float power translation and rotation system  
A power translation and rotation apparatus for an air float fixture support system of the type including a table having an upwardly facing upper surface adapted for supporting a workpiece fixture...
4443147 Turret stacker  
A transporting device for lifting and relocating material from one position to another. In one embodiment, the transporting device comprises a stationary central support pedestal and a rotatable...
4438805 Manipulator for remote-controlled inspection and, if necessary or desirable, repair of heat exchanger tubes  
Manipulator for positioning a tube probe at tube mouths of heat-exchanger tubes by remote-control of the tube probe which is connected to a flexible supply line for inspecting and/or repairing the...
4435118 Method of controlling horizontal motion of a load application point on an articulated crane  
A method and apparatus for controlling the horizontal motion of a double articulated crane comprises determining the angle about a common axis between a base member pivotally mounted on a crane...
4433953 Industrial robot having a joint-free arm  
An industrial robot having an arm formed as a hollow joint-free tube which is oval in cross section and made from a material that will provide structural rigidity to enable the arm to support a...