Automating bricklaying
CA 2102323 A1 · Owner: Milne, W. Warren · Inventors: Milne, W. Warren; Wiercienski, Jacek A.; Kuzan, Pawel
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Bricklaying equipment includes a guideway extending along brick masonry being erected. A bricklaying machine displaces along the guideway. It has a robotic arm with an upper arm and a forearm. The upper arm pivots about a shoulder joint, and the forearm pivots relative to the upper arm at an elbow joint. A wrist joint permits a tool assembly including a, mortar-dispensing mechanism and a brick-gripping mechanism to pivot, relative to the forearm. The mortar-dispensing mechanism includes a form that receives and shapes a mortar charge, and a sliding gate mechanism that discharges the shaped charge. The arm is operated with a single motor that pivots the upper arm. Linkage constrains the tool …
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- Filed November 3, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 3, 2013.
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