Hands for robotic arms capable of opposing movement - can pivot and use fingers in form of telescopic studs of elastically tensioned claws to grip work

摘要

The robotic gripping system uses articulated arms capable of co-ordinated opposable movement to mount artificial hands designed to hold the work or product. The form of the hands varies with the weight and shape of the object to be handled and their parallelism adapts to suit the level at which the handling operation takes place. The grip may be applied by fingers in the form of telescopic studs, by claws in a state of elastic tension, or by hands made of foam rubber pads. Alternatively the hands may have an 'L' section and may be equipped with elastic parts which are compressed by handling forces, their horizontal flanges being slid under the work to make the pick-up. The hand may be mounted on a pivot capable of limited lateral sliding in the absence of lateral handling forces.(0/9)