Bodyside panel handling conveyor
CA 2031698 C · Owner: Kenny, Patrick J. · Inventors: Dugas, Michael R.; Hazelton, Mark W.; Kenny, Patrick J.
Overview
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A carrier is mounted for movement along a conveying path defined by a pair of conveying rails one of which has a, relatively short gap at a work station. A manipulator device is located at the work station and includes a relatively short conveying rail section which may selectively located to span the gap in the one rail or located in a position displaced from the rail. An article support frame is mounted upon the carrier for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the rials between conveying position and a transfer position. A rail gripping device fixed to the support frame slides along the one rail to support the support frame in its conveying position during movement of the carrier …
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- Filed December 6, 1990 and granted March 29, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 6, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 6, 2012.
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