Patent ID: 7997845
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: B62B,B65G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A sheet handling device for handling glass and other sheet material, the device comprising wheels for movement of the device along the ground, opposed upright supports in parallel relationship, a carriage moveable along each support to a selected height, an assembly of at least two vacuum grips mounted to the carriage to engage the sheet at positions displaced in the height direction of the sheet, the grip assembly being mounted to the carriage in a manner configured to permit pivotal movement of the assembly about an axis perpendicular to the plane of a sheet material carried by the grips, the upright supports being configured to permit parallel pivotal movement from a substantially vertical orientation in the device to an inclined orientation in a direction in which the sheet material carried by the vacuum grips will be subject to sideways displacement in the plane of the sheet material, such displacement being accompanied by pivotal movement of each vacuum grip assembly about said axis, and a strut linking the two upright supports, the strut being adjustable to effect said movement of the supports to the inclined orientation so to displace the sheet material sideways.