Patent ID: 9678094
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G01N

Claim:
1. An apparatus for determining the position of an automatically displaceable gauge, said apparatus comprising: the automatically displaceable gauge; a first device for displacing the automatically displaceable gauge in a spatial X-direction, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the automatically displaceable gauge; a second device for displacing the automatically displaceable gauge in a spatial Z-direction, which extends parallel to the longitudinal axis of the automatically displaceable gauge; a sensor for identifying an abutment of the automatically displaceable gauge on, or an approach thereof to, an article; an at least partly bordered receptacle position for the automatically displaceable gauge into which the automatically displaceable gauge is at least partly insertable by displacing the automatically displaceable gauge in the spatial X-direction or Z-direction, wherein the receptacle position is configured as a vertical depression and has two steps within the depression enclosing a boundary face with a normal in a spatial Y-direction; and a movable assembly, wherein the receptacle position is arranged on the movable assembly.