Patent ID: 7828164
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: B65G,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A suspended platform for receiving and supporting an article, which has an upwardly-facing abutting surface, upon the article being mounted on said suspended platform by an overhead traveling carriage that travels along a traveling rail fixed on a ceiling to transfer the article in a horizontal transfer direction, said suspended platform comprising: a receiving part on which the article is received and supported; a front wall supported by said receiving part at an entrance-and-exit portion of said receiving part where the article enters said suspended platform during mounting of the article on said suspended platform by the overhead traveling carriage, said front wall being configured to prevent falling of the article from said suspended platform; and a tilt regulating part fixed with respect to said receiving part and positioned relative to said receiving part and relative to said front wall such that, during mounting of the article by the overhead traveling carriage onto said receiving part in which the article is transferred horizontally and transverse to the horizontal transfer direction of the article, the article passes above said front wall of said suspended platform and the upwardly-facing abutting surface of the article passes beneath a downwardly-facing surface of said tilt regulating part so as not to contact the upwardly-facing abutting surface of the article against said downwardly-facing surface of said tilt-regulating part, and such that, with the article supported on said receiving part, tilting of the article beyond a predetermined tilt range of the article is prevented by contact of the upwardly-facing surface of the article against said downwardly-facing surface of said tilt regulating part.