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Japan TAPPI Annual Meeting 2003 was held at HiroshimaEIwakuni
in October 15-17, 2003. Totally 1165 people attended this
three-day meeting.
At the meeting, Maruishi put up an exhibition booth for finishing
equipments, with a general layout introducing Maruishi main
finishing machines and other auxiliary equipment such as pallet
robot, sheet counter with laser maker unit, skid dust remover
with vacuum brush, new roll conveyor, stack straightening
and centering machine etc.
Mr. Inaba from Maruishi Designing Department presented a
technical report entitled "Pallet Fork Transport System".
By cramping both top and bottom of the skid, this robotic
system can transport skids to the next process without shifting
the load.
Two forks available for automatic size change and can also
move up and down.
X and Y position of this Robotic Fork Unit is controlled by
overhead crane. The Fork Unit can turn 180 degrees, so it
can handles pallet transportation even when pallet runner
is set in the direction of movement. Most of all, this machine
can transport skids from sheeter automatically without load
shift. Capacity is 60/hour.
For anyone interested in this report, Maruishi is willing
to provide Mr. Inaba's text upon your kind request.
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