Patent ID: 7028524

Claim:
A pick and place system for safely and efficiently accepting workpieces with flanges to be cold forged and for delivering them to a die comprising, in combination: a vertical wall having an upper portion with a fixed support plate and a lower die face for a cold forging system; a transfer housing and an air cylinder coupled to the housing with cylindrical rods horizontally secured to the support plate and with the housing and air cylinder laterally reciprocable upon the rod; a pair of fingers having lower free ends with facing tips formed with recesses for receiving and supporting a flange of a workpiece, the fingers having an upper follower, the follower being vertically reciprocable to move the tips between an expanded orientation for releasing a workpiece and a contracted orientation for retaining a workpiece; and lines for reciprocating the transfer housing between a workpiece accepting orientation remote from the support plate wherein the fingers are contracted and a workpiece delivering orientation adjacent to the support plate whereat the fingers are expanded.