Patent ID: 7165665

Claim:
A transfer line with a transporting arrangement for transporting workpieces from a first workstation to an adjacent second workstation, comprising a respective working place at each workstation, the working places having a distance “a” from each other; a frame disposed in front of, and centrally between, the workstations, the frame comprising a depositing place for at least one workpiece, which depositing place is located in front of and centrally between the working places; a transporting beam, which comprises a first end area with a first work support and, at a center distance “b” therefrom, a second end area with a second work support, with a≦2b applying, which is mounted on the frame in a lifting skid for height adjustment between a first position of lifting and a second position of lifting in the first position of lifting the first work supports being located above the depositing place and in the second position of lifting the second work support being below the depositing place wherein the lifting skid is vertically displaceable by a lifting drive which is mounted on the frame which lifting drive comprises a first servomotor, and which is longitudinally displaceable by a transporting drive between a first position of transfer and a second position of transfer for the first or the second work support to coincide horizontally with the depositing place which is comprised of at least two depositing surfaces which are disposed on both sides of the transporting beam, forming a joint horizontal surface and wherein the transporting drive comprises a second servomotor which is disposed on the lifting skid and a rack which is mounted on the transporting beam and which a pinion of the servomotor engages with, and a first position transmitter of the lifting drive and a second position transmitter of the transporting drive.