US 11,883,951 B2
Gripping device having a pair of deformable gripping elements configured to form an inner gripping space and to retain a container in the inner gripping space
Luca Bellucci, Fossato di Vico (IT); Massimo Fianchini, Castelbellino (IT); and Michele Mengoni, Ancona (IT)
Assigned to AEA S.R.L., Angeli di Rosora (IT)
Filed by AEA S.R.L., Ancona (IT)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/197,829.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000005257 (IT), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0283786 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B25J 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 15/0042 (2013.01) [B25J 15/0028 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gripping device comprising:
a body defining a constraint opening divided into a first zone and a second zone,
a gripping member configured to grasp a container, the gripping member being engaged to the body and comprising at least:
a first deformable gripping element arranged in correspondence of the first zone, the first deformable gripping element being configured to embrace, when the gripping device is in use, a first portion of the container,
a second deformable gripping element arranged in correspondence of the second zone, the second deformable gripping element being configured to embrace, when the gripping device is in use, a second portion of the container distinct from the first portion of the container,
the first deformable gripping element and the second deformable gripping element being configured to form an inner gripping space, the gripping member being configured to operate at least between:
a rest configuration,
a gripping configuration wherein the first deformable gripping element and the second deformable gripping element are deformed and retain, when the gripping device is in use and in correspondence of the inner gripping space, the container, in the gripping configuration the first deformable gripping element being in contact with the first portion of the container and the second deformable gripping element being in contact with the second portion of the container,
wherein at least one of the first deformable gripping element and the second deformable gripping element has a conformation equipped with a first flap and a second flap joined together at a distal end, at least one reinforcing rib developing transversely and in interposition with respect to the first flap and the second flap.