Title:
HIGH SPEED MANUFACTURING SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2000000416
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk (4) for simultaneously conveying a plurality of the articles of manufacture at the pre-selected processing rate in a first mode of motion from the beginning of the manufacturing system to the end of the system. At least one branch processing station (6, 14, 16) is positioned intermediate the beginning and the end of the trunk wherein the branch processing station during its operation performs at least one process on articles of manufacture conveyed on the branch processing station and where the articles are conveyed in a second mode of motion. At least one transfer device (86) is positioned intermediate the trunk and the branch processing station to continuously extract articles of manufacture from the trunk and transition the movement of the extracted articles of manufacture from the first mode of motion to the second mode of motion for transfer to the branch processing station. The transfer device also extracts each of the processed articles of manufacture from the branch processing station and transitions the movement of the articles from the second mode of motion to the first mode of motion for transfer to the trunk.
Inventors:
PATTANTYUS-ABRAHAM IMRE A
LAW CHAD E
WEBER PATRICK J
STEDMAN STANLEY W
CHANG STEPHEN T
LAW CHAD E
WEBER PATRICK J
STEDMAN STANLEY W
CHANG STEPHEN T
Application Number:
PCT/US1999/014259
Publication Date:
April 13, 2000
Filing Date:
June 23, 1999
Export Citation:
Assignee:
EVEREADY BATTERY INC (US)
International Classes:
B23Q7/14; B23Q41/02; B65G37/02; B65G47/51; (IPC1-7): B65G37/02; B65G47/51; B23Q7/14; B23Q41/02
Foreign References:
| US2932376A | 1960-04-12 | |||
| GB2292926A | 1996-03-13 | |||
| US3889797A | 1975-06-17 |
Other References:
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 008, no. 061 (M - 284) 23 March 1984 (1984-03-23)
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