Gripping device i.e. bidirectional type gripping device, for automated storage and retrieval machine to displace loads in storage furniture, has displacement units displacing coupling unit in translation in opposite longitudinal directions

摘要

The device has a displacement system including displacement units (175-178) comprising a pantographic displacement system (105), a linear motor (170) and a longitudinal rail (171) and mounted on a frame. Complementary coupling units (136a, 136b) are mounted at an end of a mobile section (133) of a telescopic arm (103). The displacement units displace a coupling unit (164) in longitudinal translation in two opposite longitudinal directions (F' 1, F'2) when the coupling unit is coupled with the complementary unit in order to move the section between retracted and deployed positions.