Patent ID: 8495811
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bench for support and manufacturing of parts with complex geometry, comprising: at least a support base having a surface that is defined; a number of anchoring points distributed on said support base according to a predefined geometry; and one or more mobile units of support/manufacturing, said mobile units of support/manufacturing being movable each one independently from the other ones on the surface of said support base; said mobile units of support/manufacturing each one have a frame with at least two anchoring feet, each of said anchoring feet comprising an anchoring device configured to be activated/deactivated, said anchoring device being further configured to cooperate with a corresponding anchoring organ belonging to one of a plurality of anchoring elements; said anchoring elements being distributed on the surface of said support base such that each of said anchoring elements is positioned at one of said anchoring points; said anchoring points and the corresponding anchoring elements being distributed on the surface of said support base according to a geometry such that a distance between any one anchoring point among said anchoring points, and a corresponding anchoring element, from any other one of said anchoring points, and corresponding anchoring organ, in an immediate vicinity of said anchoring point and corresponding anchoring organ, is constant and equal to a radius of a predefined circle; anchoring devices of said at least two anchoring feet having a distance between each other equal to said radius; said anchoring feet being configured to turn through a rotation with respect to the frame of the mobile unit of support/manufacturing, said rotation being about an axis through any of said anchoring points and orthogonal to said support base, the corresponding anchoring feet being engaged to said anchoring point; and each unit of support/manufacturing comprising devices for actuating an angular displacement of said anchoring feet and anchoring devices operating an activation/deactivation of anchoring organs belonging to the corresponding anchoring feet for connection/disconnection to the anchoring organs belonging to the corresponding anchoring elements, anti-rotation elements being provided to constrain a relative rotation of an anchoring foot with respect to the corresponding anchoring element, an axis of the constrained rotation being the axis about which said frame of said unit of support/manufacturing rotates with respect to said support base; and such that a rotation of any unit of support/manufacturing about an axis through one of said anchoring points, where one of said anchoring feet is connected to the corresponding anchoring element, causes a rotation of the at least one additional anchoring foot present in said unit of support/manufacturing and said at least one additional anchoring foot is moved at one anchoring element corresponding to one of the said anchoring points immediately adjacent to said anchoring point at which said unit of support/manufacturing is connected, thereby causing said at least one additional anchoring foot to connect to said anchoring element corresponding to one of the said anchoring points immediately adjacent to said anchoring point, at which said unit of support/manufacturing is connected.