Patent ID: 8973741
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for transporting objects, comprising a guide arrangement for supporting and guiding along a movement path at least one carriage supporting a support element suitable for receiving at least one object, and a movement arrangement for moving said carriage along said movement path, wherein said at least one carriage includes a plurality of rolling elements and an adjusting device for rotatably supporting at least one rolling element of said rolling elements and adjusting a position of said at least one rolling element along first and second orthogonal directions and wherein said guide arrangement comprises at least three guides that are parallel to one another, each of which is arranged for supporting and guiding a respective rolling element in an operative configuration of said carriage, said guides defining respective movement profiles conjugated and shaped so as each rolling element abuts on the respective guide in each point of the latter along said movement path, said rolling elements being arranged, with respect to a plane that is parallel to said guides, at the vertices of a triangle.