Patent ID: 8918204
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: B21D,B25J

Abstract:
1. A transport unit for transporting workpieces between adjacent deposit sites or machining devices, the transport unit comprising: a multiaxle robot; a gripping tool; and a controllable transfer device, guided by the robot, with a gripping tool feed and a gripping tool pivot for feeding and pivoting the gripping tool relative to the multiaxle robot, wherein: the robot is designed as an articulated arm robot and has a multiaxle robot hand connected to said gripping tool feed; the transfer device has a tool holder, which can be moved in a translatory and rotatory manner by the gripping tool feed and the gripping tool pivot in relation to the robot hand; the transfer device has a support bar connected to the robot hand, at which the tool holder is arranged in a displaceable, especially linearly movable, and pivotable manner in relation to the support bar; the gripping tool feed has a carriage for connection to the robot hand and a carriage for the tool holder, which are arranged and guided in a longitudinally movable manner at the support bar; the tool holder is mounted rotatably at the associated carriage about a pivot axis and is connected to the pivot drive by means of a circumferential transmission means; the carriages are connected by means of a circumferential coupling means for transmitting motion; and the circumferential coupling means and the transmission means are guided in a finite or infinite loop via deflections at both ends of the support bar.