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Transverse car body conveying system

a conveying system and car body technology, applied in transportation and packaging, propulsion railway systems, rope railways, etc., can solve the problems of high conveying power requirement, low storage efficiency, and high carrier weight, and achieve stable carrier travel and high storage efficiency.

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-10-25
TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO
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This solution reduces carrier size and weight, enhances storage efficiency, lowers power requirements, and prevents accidental door openings, improving versatility and productivity by allowing more space for operations without the need for additional safety measures.

Problems solved by technology

The lengths of the conveyor tracks 200 need to be sufficiently large to accommodate the car body lengths w1, and consequently storage efficiency is low.
Moreover, the carrier size is necessarily large, resulting in high carrier weight and a high conveying power requirement.
Opening of a car door during operation of the conveyor can cause damage to objects adjacent to the conveying path, as well as injury to personnel.
However, these ropes take up space, and become an obstacle to various operations, impairing productivity.

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[0022] In the transverse car body conveying system shown in FIG. 1, car bodies may be transported along conveying path X1 in a painting step, and along conveying path X2 in a drying step. The car bodies are transferred along a conveying path X3 from passage X1 to passage X2 by a traverser mechanism T. Each of the car bodies is arranged so that its direction of elongation, i.e., its long dimension, is in transverse relationship to its direction of travel along passages X1 and X2, and the entire conveying system of FIG. 1 is generally C-shaped in plan view.

[0023] Skid-type carriers 110 for mounting the transversely oriented car bodies W, travel passively on a pair of left and right rails 130 provided along conveying paths X1 and X2. The carriers are propelled by driving forces imparted by friction drive rollers located along each of the car body conveying paths X1 and X2. The drive roller mechanism 120 for conveying path X1 is shown in FIG. 1.

[0024] The skid-type carrier 110 as show...

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A skid-type car body carrier carries a transversely oriented car body along a conveying path. The carrier is driven by a drive roller which is biased upwardly and frictionally engages the bottom of a centrally located friction bar mounted underneath the carrier.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 11 / 018,879, filed Dec. 21, 2004, and claims priority on the basis of Japanese patent application 2004-054318, filed Feb. 27, 2004.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to a transfer system for conveying car bodies in a factory, and more specifically to a transverse car body conveying system, in which a skid-type carrier travels passively on rails, and on which a car body mounted on the carrier is oriented in a direction transverse to the direction of carrier movement. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Known car body conveying systems include systems having a number of conveyor units, in which a large number of hybrid conveying carriers travel. Each conveying carrier is provided with left and right conveying skids, left and right front wheels, and left and right rear wheels. The hybrid type carriers are propelled by driving rollers and controlled by a large number...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B61B9/00B61B13/12B62D65/18
CPCB61B13/127Y02T30/30B62D65/18Y02T30/00
Inventor UENO, ICHIROOSAWA, MANABUMATSUSHITA, TOSHIHIROYOSHIMURA, NOBUHIKOTOBA, KAZUO
Owner TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO
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