US 12,434,290 B2
Conveying device and method for conveying metal strip coils
Roland Hofer, Reichenau im Muehlkreis (AT); Lukas Pichler, Linz (AT); and Christoph Salzmann, Linz (AT)
Assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Linz (AT)
Appl. No. 18/713,301
Filed by Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Linz (AT)
PCT Filed Nov. 30, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/083820
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 24, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/099548, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 8, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 21211936 (EP), filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0018457 A1, Jan. 16, 2025
Int. Cl. B21D 43/00 (2006.01)
CPC B21D 43/006 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport device for transporting metal strip coils, comprising:
at least one coil carrier configured to carry a metal strip coil;
two conveying stations arranged at mutually different heights and each configured to receive a coil carrier;
a conveying track running between the two conveying stations; and
a conveying drive configured to convey the at least one coil carrier on the conveying track between the conveying stations;
wherein each conveying station can be tilted between a first end position, wherein the conveying station is oriented horizontally, and a second end position, wherein the conveying station has an inclination substantially co-linear to a gradient of the conveying track and adjoins the conveying track such that the coil carrier can be conveyed by the conveying drive from the conveying track into the conveying station and out of the conveying station onto the conveying track.