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OT-2026-000003184

Pick-up device

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
BERTALERO ROBERTO, PEDROTTO GIANFRANCO
Assignee
SOREMARTEC SA
Original source
US-5931279-A, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 3 August 1999
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The pick-up device comprises a plurality of pick-up members connected together and articulated by means of arms so as to be disposed at the vertices of a polygon. Cam surfaces defined by the sides of slots provided in one or more motion plates allow the geometry, and possibly the length of one or more sides of the polygon to be varied. It is thus possible selectively to vary the geometry of the arrangement of articles held by the device during transfer thereof, possibly also causing the distance between groups of separate pick-up members to be varied.

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Abstract

The pick-up device comprises a plurality of pick-up members connected together and articulated by means of arms so as to be disposed at the vertices of a polygon. Cam surfaces defined by the sides of slots provided in one or more motion plates allow the geometry, and possibly the length of one or more sides of the polygon to be varied. It is thus possible selectively to vary the geometry of the arrangement of articles held by the device during transfer thereof, possibly also causing the distance between groups of separate pick-up members to be varied.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000003184, “Pick-up device,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:45:41 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000003184.

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