IP Library Granted Patent US 10,919,591
Granted Patent B2
US 10,919,591 · App. 16/315,381 · Granted Feb 16, 2021

Transport system

Inventor: Martin Riegraf (Reutlingen, DE)
Assignee: EISENMANN SE
B62D65/18F26B15/14F26B25/02B61B10/00F26B2210/12
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,919,591
App. No.
16/315,381
Granted
Feb 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A transport system, which is designed in particular for a dryer for drying workpieces, such as vehicle bodies, and which has a plurality of transport carts. The transport carts can be moved on a rail system in a transport direction. Workpieces can be transported by means of the transport carts. Each transport cart has a transport cart chassis. The transport cart has a fastening device, which is designed to establish a connection between the transport cart and a workpiece carrier in order to transport the workpiece carrier by means of the transport cart. The fastening device has thermal insulation, which impedes heat transfer between a workpiece carrier and the transport cart.

Claims (12)

1. A transport system comprising:

a multiplicity of transport carts, wherein the multiplicity of transport carts can be displaced in a transporting direction on a rail system and workpieces can be transported by means of the multiplicity of transport carts, wherein each transport cart has a chassis, wherein

each transport cart has a fastening device, which is intended to establish a connection between the transport cart and a workpiece carrier in order for the workpiece carrier to be transported, and

each fastening device comprises a plurality of fastening points, and each fastening point has a thermal insulating means, which impedes transfer of heat between the workpiece carrier and the transport cart.

2. The transport system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thermal insulating means for each fastening device is a thermally insulating element between the workpiece carrier and the fastening device, between the fastening device and the transport cart and/or integrated in the fastening device.

3. The transport system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each fastening device has a through-passage portion.

4. The transport system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each fastening point is a plug-in connection.

5. The transport system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein each plug-in connection has an accommodating space, which tapers downward.

6. The transport system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each plug-in connection has a thermally insulating element in a region of the accommodating space.

7. The transport system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the insulating element has friction-reducing properties.

8. The transport system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the rail system is a monorail system.

9. The transport system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the workpiece carrier is a skid for a vehicle body or a vehicle component.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2022
From: NIMBUS INVESTMENTS CXLIV B.V.
To: EISENMANN GMBH
Reel/Frame 058640/0964 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 20, 2021
From: EISENMANN SE
To: NIMBUS INVESTMENTS CXLIV B.V.
Reel/Frame 058429/0868 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2019
From: RIEGRAF, MARTIN
To: EISENMANN SE
Reel/Frame 048237/0165 →