Manipulating device and method for operation thereof

US12311534B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Festo SE & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Leif Pudewills · Eßlingen, DE
• Markus Singer · Ammerthal, DE
• Tobias Waibel · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 2022
• Grant date: May 27, 2025
• Expiry date: May 4, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/174
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A manipulating device, by which flexible flat objects can be repositioned and which has a movable gripping device which includes a support structure and at least one gripping unit. The gripping unit has a clamping arm which, together with a clamping surface of the support structure, delimits a clamping gap, in which a flat object portion can be firmly clamped. By means of a transport structure of the clamping arm which is drivable for a circumferential transport movement, the flat object portion can be transported into the clamping gap for subsequent clamping.