摘要 |
An industrial automation robot including a locating member (e.g., a robotic arm), a gripper movable by the locating member to a position aligned with a workpiece, and a pair of jaws attached to the gripper's slides for engaging the workpiece. A driving interconnection between the gripper's slides and the gripper's drive assembly moves the slides towards each other when a drive rod is rotated in a first direction and moves the slides away from each other when the drive rod is rotated in a second direction. The driving interconnection between the slides and the driving assembly preferably further insures synchronous movement of the slides, and thus the jaws, relative to the frame when the drive rod is rotated.
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