Patent ID: 7156219

Claim:
Installation for assembling tube components comprising bodies ( 1 ) with shoulders, comprising the following elements arranged in succession: a linear body conveyor ( 4 ), a transfer system ( 7 ) designed to apply a change in orientation to the bodies ( 1 ) of about 90°, an assembly unit ( 8 ) for fixing the shoulders to the bodies ( 1 ), characterized in that the transfer system ( 7 ) consists of a device ( 9 ) for gripping the bodies and of a device ( 17 ) for changing the orientation of the bodies, the orientation-change device comprising a rotary conveyor ( 17 ), of the conveyor belt type, which is arranged at right angles to the direction of the linear conveyor ( 4 ), the said rotary conveyor ( 17 ) comprising a belt ( 18 , 19 ) rotating about a direction that makes an angle of about 45° with the direction of the linear conveyor ( 4 ), the belt ( 18 , 19 ) comprising elements ( 15 ) for grasping the bodies, the shape of which is designed so that the bodies ( 1 ) are initially grasped on one of the sides of the rotary conveyor ( 17 ), in a direction parallel to that of the linear conveyor ( 4 ), and that they undergo a change in orientation by 90° when they pass to the other side of the rotary conveyor ( 17 ).