Compact Mobile Roll Tilter

摘要

The roll filler supports a palleted roll of sheet or thin plate material and re-positions the roll for mounting to an unrolling fixture. The roll tilter received the roll resting on a pallet in a vertical centerline position and rotates the palleted roll from the vertical position to a position with the roll center line in a horizontal position to facilitate mounting the roll on an unrolling fixture.

主权项

1. A roll tilter system comprising:
a base bracket including one or more cradle wedges fixed thereon and extending upwards from the base bracket; a pivot assembly connected to the base bracket, the pivot assembly including a slotted platform and a cradle platform, the slotted and cradle platforms pined together and extending perpendicularly outwards from each other, the pivot assembly having a loading position in which the cradle platform is substantially vertical and the slotted platform is substantially horizontal and an unloading position in which the cradle platform is substantially horizontal and the slotted platform is substantially vertical; a cradle assembly mounted to the cradle platform for translation along the cradle platform toward and away from the slotted platform; a pivot actuator connected between the base bracket and the pivot assembly and, in use, rotating the pivot assembly about a pivot axis between the vertical position and the horizontal position; wherein (i) the pivot actuator rotates the pivot assembly about the pivot axis from the loading position to the unloading position, (ii) the cradle assembly, as the pivot assembly approaches the unloading position, contacts the one or mote cradle wedges, and (iii) the cradle assembly, after contacting the one or more cradle wedges, translates along the cradle platform away from the slotted platform as the pivot assembly reaches the unloading position.