Patent ID: 6749056
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: B23Q,B30B

Abstract:
A method for resetting the position of pins in trays with pins for supporting objects, such as panels for producing furniture components, to be clad inside presses, of the type that comprises a tray that is arranged on a substantially horizontal plane and in which there are multiple receptacles that have a substantially vertical axis, each receptacle accommodating a pin provided with a head that protrudes from an upper face of said tray; said pins forming all together, with their heads, a supporting surface for a lower face of an object to be placed in the press; said pins being individually movable on command along the axis of the corresponding receptacle in order to pass from a raised position, in which they are suitable to make contact with said object and support it, to a lowered position, in which they are spaced downward from the object supported by the pins in the raised position, each pin having elastic means that are suitable to keep the pin in the raised position and are flexible so as to allow the pin to pass from the raised position to the lowered position or vice versa, comprising the step of making said tray slide along a resetting surface that has, along an extension thereof, a region that is raised with respect to a plane that is parallel to a plane of arrangement of said tray, said raised region being suitable to gradually make contact with a lower end of the pins in the lowered position, as they pass at said raised region, in order to produce transfer of said pins to the raised position.