TRANSPORTANORDNING MED ETT FLERTAL BERARE FOR UPPBERNING OCH FRAMMATNING AV ARBETSSTYCKEN

摘要

Carriers are suspended on vertical rails providing a cantilever support for pallets which permit a machining operation to be performed on the bottom face of a workpiece as well as the other surfaces thereof. A further novelty resides in the drive for the carriers by a single strand hollow pin conveyor chain which is bendable in a horizontal plane so that it may assume any configuration depending on the type of machining to be performed and the area which the machine is to occupy. The pallet may be movably supported on the carrier or may be fixed thereto and when movably supported, the pallet is shifted in two directions and secured in fixed position at a station. The chain has wear plates thereon and wear plates are mounted on the carrier in engagement with those on the chain which frictionally drives the carriers until one carrier is stopped as the chain continues to advance.