STEP 4: PRESSING ROOF ONTO CHASSIS

When a Holder with Chassis and Roof arrives at the Roof Press Station, the Roof is pressed onto the Chassis.

Figure 8: Buffering between Roof Loading Station and Roof Press Station.

Figure 9: A Chassis-Roof assembly being presssed

  • Several Holders may be buffered, and only one at a time is allowed into the Roof Press Station by means of the same 'gating' system discussed earlier.

Figure 10: Holder and Chassis-Roof Assembly are separated after the Roof Press Station.

Figure 11: Holder sliding back onto the Holder Conveyor Belt

  • In Figure 10, a Chassis-Roof Assembly (car without wheels) is moving up the conveyor belt ramp to the Wheel Press Station (see Figure 13-14). The empty Holder is released back into the Holder Conveyor Belt (see also Figure 1).

  • In Figure 11, we can see three empty Holders entering the Holder Conveyor Belt to be re-used.

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