Device for facilitating the alignment of heavy workpieces at a machine table or the like

US4205834A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Maag Gear-Wheel & Machine Company Limited · CH

Inventors

• Walter Demuth · Gerlingen, DE
• Erhard Ruesch · Zürich, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 17, 1979
• Grant date: Jun 3, 1980
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T409/309016
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for facilitating the alignment of heavy workpieces at a machine table or the like, comprising a housing capable of being arranged below the workpiece at the machine table. A pendulum support is arranged in the housing so as to have a limited tilting movement to all sides and equally can be moved between a rest position and support position where it supports the workpiece. The pendulum support is arranged so that it can be selectively raised and lowered. Further, there is provided a mechanically adjustable support which is guided so that it can be raised and lowered. The mechanically adjustable support is guided in the housing between a rest position and a support position where it supports the workpiece instead of the pendulum support.