Patent ID: 11958096
Assignee: STROTHMANN MACHINES & HANDLING GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A transport system for transporting plate-shaped curved workpieces on a transport path between two process stations of a production line, comprising:
a set of drones, with each drone comprising at least one gripper swivel mounted on the drone body and comprising at least one pneumatically operated suction device, which is adapted to be operated by at least one negative pressure source, to releasably couple to a surface of a workpiece, and
a control device for the simultaneous coordinated control of the drones of the set, in such a way that the grippers of the drones of the set couple to different coupling positions on the surface of one single workpiece and the orientation of the workpiece can be changed on a transport path between the process stations by changing the relative positions of the drones while maintaining the relative distances of the coupling positions from one another and the spatial orientation of the drone bodies.