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My point - make all tasks with maximum effectiveness and less expenses. I have 10 years of hands-on experience as a system administrator/IT manager. Looking for interesting job / project(s). Able to work independently, but also is flexible team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Skills and knowledge - Microsoft software/services = Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 server products = Windows XP/Vista/7/8 desktops + mass-deployment tools/technologies = DHCP/DNS/FTP = DFS namespaces & replication = Active Directory planning, setup, maintenance and troubleshooting = Active Directory Federation Services = Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Services / RemoteApp = Group Policy = Access Control and Auditing setup = MS Exchange 2007/2010/2013 = MS Office 2003/2007/2010/2013/365 = MS SQL 2000/2005/2008 = Microsoft Hyper-V My MS certification: https://mcp.microsoft.com/Anonymous//Transcript/Validate Transcript ID 982200 Access Code Prima753
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Performance driven, highly ambitious Cloud Architect with an in-depth experience working with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as a part of development, DevOps and SaaS Ops teams. Dedicated, reliable and proactive self-starter with a proven record of taking initiatives with high responsibility, accepting the challenges and moving beyond the high expectations set by the management. Crafty in troubleshooting difficult to grasp issues with ability to work independent and in teams of various sizes in diversified roles. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Specialties: - Cloud Architecture: Architecting and implementing secure, highly available and scalable systems using AWS - Amazon Web Services (including but not limited to EC2, VPC, Route53, RDS, S3, CloudFormation etc.) - Cloud transformation: Migration to private/hybrid clouds from legacy data centers. - Production Monitoring: Setting up highly automated monitoring of live systems using various tools in the market including Nagios, Amazon CloudWatch, ActiveBatch, Graphite, Munin etc. - Continuous Integration/Delivery: Build, test and release automation using various CI and CD tools including Maven, Jenkins / Hudson, Sonar and AWS with various scripting languages like Apache ANT, shell script, python, MSBuild, Powershell, VBScript etc. - Database Migration: Migration of large challenging databases to cloud with minimal downtime.
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I am Microsoft Windows Server and Networking specialist who has been developing, implementing, and maintaining Windows-based systems (including server-side applications and services including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and SharePoint) for over 16 years. I bring over 10 years hands-on experience on Linux desktops and servers and Mac OS X platforms. My background as a Software Developer / Engineer adds to my diverse skill set having been professional-trained in computer programming on Q-Basic and GW-Basica and then went on to add Visual Studio application development (Visual Basic, C#, ASP) on the classic and .NET platforms to my arsenal. I have suceessfully developed and implemented applications and solutions using: * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 * Microsoft Exchange. * Microsoft SQL Server. * Microsoft Visual Studio. * HTML4/5 (CCS/CCS3) web development, ASP (Classic and .NET)/ADO.Net web programming, AJAX, XML (including XSLT, XSD, RegEx), JavaScript programming, including Web-dased database access and querying applications. * Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL. * Customized Content Management Systems (CMS) with PHP and MySQL. * Network and remote backup solutions based on Symantec BackupExec and Acronis. * Custom-built SMS texting/alerting applications. * VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, VirtualBox server virtualization. * Citrix-based application publishing
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IT System consultant with a lot of experience with all Microsoft products.Comprehensive MS servers knowledge. Security maintenance and implementation. Implementation of Windows servers systems. My thoughts in life, and work, is that nothing is impossible, nothing is out of reach, every problem has a solution. My goals are to safely, responsible and with resourcefulness, solve any problem. In love with Windows PowerShell.
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Over the last 10 years, I have developed extensive experience in Windows Server administration and IBM Groupware technologies. Provide remote support for standalone and clustered Windows servers and NetApp appliances in a global client/server environment (failover clustering, AD DS user management, backup/restore operations, FSRM, DFS, Quota processing, NTFS/Share permissions, NetApp OnCommand System Manager) Leverage PowerShell for automation, information gathering and reporting in the following areas: AD DS, MSSQL, NTFS, FSRM, Server Management, WMI
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Knowledgeable and skilled IT professional with encompassing work experience spanning more than 8 years in systems administration with compliance as per industry standards. Possess excellent interpersonal skills to liaise amicably with diverse groups of people, different departments, vendors and agencies. With extensive exposure to different cultures and work environments and has worked effectively with multinational individuals and professionals from all organizational levels. Certifications: MCITP (Server 2008, Exchange 2010, Lync 2010) Expertise: Exchange 2007/2010, Active Directory 2003/2008, SCCM, SCOM, DPM, SCVMM, BackupExec,Enterprise Vault, WSUS, Lync, Server 2003/2008, ADRMS, SQL Server, SAN/NAS.
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• Successful background in system administration, top-down networking implementation, system analysis, technical support, optimization and troubleshooting.• Strong experience in implementation of large-scale networking solutions, based on different operating system technologies, various hardware and software.• Experienced Engineer specializing in analyzing and solving complex IT problems.• Good understanding of ITIL principles (passed ITIL v3 Foundation test).• Independent, resourceful and detail- oriented individual, able to quickly grasp new technology and work effectively in the team demonstrating good organizational and interpersonal skills• MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange 2010•MCSE holder• MCITP Windows Database Administrator SQL2005 (MCDBA) • LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/vsudenko Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/NT • Linux (Unix, Aix, Solaris, HP-UX) • MS Exchange, Lotus, Web, FTP, Proxy servers, MS IIS, MS Project, Tivoli• MS Active Directory• TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, VPN, DNS, DHCP• Virtualization technologies (VMware, Virtual PC).• Citrix MetaFrame Server - administrator• Backup systems (VERITAS Backup Exec, ARCserve, IBM Tivoli Storage Management) Good knowledge MS SQL 7.0 - 2012, stored procedures, backup, DTS, Jobs, restore from Log, etc.
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I am a specialist in remote application delivery, VDI and cloud based computing. I have been working with Citrix products and some of their competing products and add-ons, from back in the Winframe NT4 Terminal server days, all the way up to the current Xenapp 6.5. I work full time for a major NYC hospital on the Citrix Engineering team, responsible for 200 + servers supporting a 24/7 mission critical environment. I have engineered delivering hundreds of applications to users on every type of device out there (PC, Macs, Thin clients, iPads, Androids, HTML5 browsers, etc.). I have a legacy MCSE for Windows 2000, and years of experience with Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2. I have extensive experience with Active Directory group policies, Proxy servers, Web Servers, and Logon scripts using WSH, CMD files, and PowerShell. I have recent training in Microsoft App-V, Citrix Xenserver, Amazon Web Services, VMWare vSphere 5, OpenVPN and VDI-in-a-Box. I have recent part-time contracting experience providing Windows Server 2008 R2 IaaS servers in the cloud with Amazon AWS, OpenVPN, and a proof of concept project to provide SaaS using Xenapp and VDI for end users of a small business, including a custom web portal for them to reach their desktop from anywhere.
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I am an IT professional working in the government, looking to broaden my experience and fill in some spare time. I am very good with Excel, providing technical support, and writing scripts to automate tasks performed in the Microsoft Windows environment.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the movie "Avatar," so many magnificent animals have gone extinct that scientists can only study them virtually. This environmentally ravaged Earth is set in the near future, in the year 2154, but according to University of Florida biologist Todd Palmer and his colleagues, the Earth in 2015 is already undergoing an accelerated mass extinction.

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Goddam, Grace Jones looks younger every day.
I liked his Superbowl commercial.
That lazy eye gives him bad aim.
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Peter Beagrie says Billy Sharp has proved that there are still role models in modern football.
Last Updated: 03/11/11 2:00pm
Billy Sharp is a tremendous role model in an age when we sometimes struggle to find them.
In an era when we see substitutes refusing to warm up to come onto the pitch, the Doncaster striker's actions have put everything into focus. Not only did he pull on a shirt just days after the death of his newborn son, but he also scored a goal for him.
I have three children myself and the tragedy that befell Billy is the worst thing that could happen to a father. I've known him as boy and man and it's quite emotional to write this article, but the strength that he and his family have shown was a fantastic tribute to his unfortunate son.
I always knew Billy was a strong character and the events of this week have cemented the high regard I have always held for him. He possesses that strong-mindedness that many strikers have, but it was quite extraordinary to see him step onto the pitch and score on Tuesday evening. That's something he and his family will always remember and I can't speak highly enough of him.
When I was at Scunthorpe we were looking to sign a new striker and I went on a scouting mission to watch Sheffield United against Sheffield Wednesday. He came on with 20 minutes to go after Steve Kabba ruptured his Achilles and straight away he had me on the edge of my seat.
He was everything we were looking for, making runs and getting involved in things like a little Tasmanian Devil. He did more in 20 minutes than the rest of the players did in the whole game and I went straight back to Brian Laws and told him we had to sign this kid.
We managed to negotiate a loan deal with Neil Warnock and he was sensational for us, scoring bags of goals and showing an incredible appetite for the game before we signed him permanently.
We brought in Andy Keogh from Leeds at the same time and having spent around £150,000 on the pair of them we eventually sold them for £2.8million combined. They were both tremendous young professionals and Billy always worked very hard on his game.
We put on extra sessions for him because he always wanted to stay behind, which was refreshing because many modern professionals go straight into the dressing room and then into their cars once training finishes.
The two of them were a pleasure to work with and they remain friends to this day. In fact, I heard from Andy a couple of days before the Middlesbrough game that Billy had phoned the manager to say he wanted to play and he wanted to score a goal for his son.
Dean Saunders didn't have any hesitation in selecting him and he gave him the captain's armband. Some people have a tendency to write their own headlines and, of course, he scored a fantastic opening goal. In an ideal world it would have been the winner, but while football isn't like that, there's no doubt that he covered himself in glory.
I would like to applaud the supporters of both teams for the way they entered into the spirit of the occasion, particularly the minute of applause before kick-off. I have spoken to several Middlesbrough supporters and they have nothing but admiration for the way this young man handled a terrible situation.
If Billy needed some advice on how to handle such a tragedy, he only needed to look at the opposition dugout. Tony Mowbray brought his wedding forward when his partner Bernadette was diagnosed with cancer and after losing her to the disease I'm sure he'd be only too happy to talk to him, as he'd be able to relate to his situation.
I've seen messages of support from right across the football family and it shows that we have a great game and some fantastic people are involved, whether that be playing, coaching or watching. Tributes have also poured in across Twitter and various websites and rightly so because Billy deserves all the support he can get.
Bill Shankly once said that football is more serious than life or death, but that's rubbish. Football is an important part of our lives, but it is never more important than family.
October's Football League Awards
Championship Manager of the Month
Nigel Adkins (Southampton), Dougie Freedman (Crystal Palace), Chris Hughton (Birmingham), Nigel Pearson (Hull)
PETER'S PICK: Chris Hughton (Birmingham) - Europa League commitments led to a busy month at St Andrews, but the Birmingham boss has handled his squad superbly. They have taken 13 points from their 15 league games and conceded just a single goal in the process.
Championship Player of the Month
Chris Burke (Birmingham), Nathaniel Clyne (Crystal Palace), Kevin Nolan (West Ham), Rickie Lambert (Southampton)
PETER'S PICK: Nathaniel Clyne (Crystal Palace) - Another product of the prolific Palace academy, Clyne - last season's Player of the Year - has been a pivotal part of his team's miserly defence. Four clean sheets in five games in the month of October saw the Eagles soar to the dizzy heights of third by the end of the month. He was the only ever-present in the Palace squad last year, making 49 appearances and the 20-year-old is maturing into a fine right full-back. Not only does he have great pace and defensive capabilities, but he has also shown an attacking prowess which is needed in the modern game.
League One Manager of the Month
Lee Clark (Huddersfield), Gary Megson (Sheffield Wednesday), Chris Powell (Charlton), Russell Slade (Leyton Orient)
PETER'S PICK: Lee Clark (Huddersfield) - Utter dominance from Clark's side, matching 16 points in the month of October with as many goals and an attacking style that has opponents sensing danger from all angles. Jordan Rhodes has been at the forefront on that, capitalising with a fantastic tally of 14 goals in the month.
League One Player of the Month
Scott Cuthbert (Leyton Orient), Daniel Nardiello (Exeter City), Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield), Rhoys Wiggins (Charlton)
PETER'S PICK: Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield) - His 14 goals, including back-to-back hat-tricks for Huddersfield and five in two for Scotland's U21's has seen the deadly young marksman rewarded with a call-up to Scotland's full squad. That's just desserts for Huddersfield's fox in the box, who has proved that his return of 55 goals in the last two seasons was no flash in the pan. Last season Lee Clark sometimes employed a 4-5-1 system away from home with Rhodes often the man to miss out, but this year he has been the first name on the team sheet.
League Two Manager of the Month
Steve Evans (Crawley), Paul Sturrock (Southend), Chris Wilder (Oxford), mark Yates (Cheltenham)
PETER'S PICK: Steve Evans - An almost perfect month for Crawley with five wins and a draw and 14 goals scored. Sides have started backing off the Football League new boys for fear of being rolled over and Crawley have an ability that a lot of teams would love to possess whereby they can stand toe-to-toe with sides and be very physical, but also if teams come out against them and leave space, they have players with pace and ability to exploit that.
League Two Player of the Month
Ryan Clarke (Oxford), Claude Davis (Crawley Town), Ryan Hall (Southend), Danny Hylton (Aldershot)
PETER'S PICK: Danny Hylton (Aldershot) - The Shots hot-shot has had a host of talent scouts from higher divisions flocking to the EBB Stadium to watch him. A magnificent seven goals from hitman Hylton saw him continue his rise to the top of the League Two scoring charts, terrorising defenders and goalkeepers alike. He has tremendous power, pace and balance and is definitely one to watch in the future and he possesses all the attributes to steer Aldershot away from the relegation zone, as long as they can rebuff any advances from likely suitors.


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Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and BBC walk into a…how does this story end? YouGov Siraj and Grayling reveals who's well-liked and who's Mr. Popular…
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Overall, 52 percent in the study said Al Jazeera was their most popular news channel and a majority 44 percent agreed it was the most trusted.
Consider however that "TV audiences in the UAE tend to be more fragmented reflecting the demographics and viewing habits of the country," according to the statement released about the study.
In Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, however much headway BBC World Arabic has gotten in the Kingdom has it landing only in 4th place for most popular news channel just underneath local news channels and right above CNN. Meanwhile, when it comes to trustworthiness BBC World Arabic goes up a place higher to 3rd on the list, with CNN and local news channels following, respectively.
Kipp supposes this disparity in popularity and trustworthiness shows people may be not necessarily subscribe to the style of reporting of some of the network of which they're already aware.
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The study covered 1,509 respondents in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The full report is available on the Grayling website.
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St Gallen International Competition Forum Session III: 'Too big to fail, but not too big to be unbundled?' Investigating the banks—The importance of competition Peter Freeman QC 20 May 2010 Abstract In contributing to the St Gallen International Competition Forum session on the banking sector, this paper draws a distinction between prudential/moral hazard issues, which are very much the province of the financial authorities and government, and competition issues which can be examined by independent competition authorities, working carefully within the overall policy framework. There have been calls in the UK for a Competition Commission (CC) market investigation into the banking sector. The paper examines the different ways in which such a market investigation could be approached, considering the relative advantages of a broad or a more focused approach and examining the possible issues that could come under consideration. It also examines possible remedies, including structural remedies, pointing out that these are not the only measures available to improve competition. The paper shows how a market investigation into the banking sector could include consider- ation of competition in its full context, taking account of financial stability, regulatory and prudential issues. The UK regime specifically allows Ministers to intervene to ensure that any proposed remedies take specific public interest issues into account. 1 St Gallen International Competition Forum Session III: 'Too big to fail, but not too big to be unbundled?' Investigating the banks—The importance of competition Peter Freeman QC 1 20 May 2010 Introduction: three quotations There has been much talk of 'breaking up the banks' as an answer to the recent turmoil in the financial sector. In the UK we have a new coalition government, in whose future pro- gramme this issue is likely to have some significance. The purpose of this paper is to separ- ate some of the entangled strands of the debate and to identify what are the competition issues to be examined, as opposed to the prudential or moral hazard issues that also loom large. The following three quotations illustrate different viewpoints. They are chosen from a wide variety of authoritative comment: The massive support extended to the banking sector around the world, while necessary to avert economic disaster, has created possibly the biggest moral hazard in history. The 'too important to fail' problem is too important to ignore. Mervyn King; Governor of the Bank of England Lecture to Scottish business organizations, 20 October 2009 To fix the system we must break up the banks. Philip Auger and John McFall 2 Financial Times, 11 September 2009 A pre-requisite … is a Competition Commission investigation into the current banking sector because one of the consequences of all the events of the past years has been a huge amount of consolidation and a removal of certain participants. George Osborne 3 Financial Times, 27 October 2009 Whilst it might be thought these comments show a degree of unanimity, they also reveal the multi-faceted nature of the problem; starting with the problem of large-scale state support leaving major banks in effect rewarded for their own failings; moving through a concern for the scale and excessive profitability of banks; and then to the intuitive observation that competition has probably suffered from the recent wave of banking collapse and 1 Chairman, CC. All views expressed are personal to the author and should not be taken to represent the views of the CC. 2 Until recently, Chair of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. 3 At the time shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, now Chancellor of the Exchequer in the newly formed coalition government. 2 consolidation. It is the last issue on which I want to concentrate, but we should first look briefly at prudential aspects. 'Moral hazard' The so-called moral hazard issue is that, through organic growth, merger and extension of activities into numerous different fields, some banks achieved such a position in terms of importance to the economy and the financial system that, because they knew government would ultimately stand behind them, they had less incentive to guard against incurring excessive risk. This problem has, as we have all seen, posed a major threat to financial stability, has caused and prolonged the economic downturn and has exposed taxpayers in the UK and elsewhere to the consequences of the risks that have been taken. Increasing regulation One possible solution to this moral hazard is increased regulation, particularly in relation to capital requirements. But increased capital alone may not be sufficient. Any increased capital ratio is arbitrary to some extent and may not be sufficient to cover the risk incurred or to deter banks from taking excessive risks in the first place. 'Break up the banks'? Various influential commentators 4 have therefore argued that it may be necessary to con- sider whether banks should be split up, either by separating conglomerate businesses— banking from insurance, for example—or by the separation of narrow or utility banking activities from more speculative trading or 'casino' operations. 5 These proposals are not directed primarily at increasing competition in banking markets, but rather at preventing a second banking crisis. Their implementation would be, of necessity, a matter for govern- ments, and they are not the subject of my talk today, which is about competition. 6 Increasing competition Competition is, however, also a major concern following the financial crisis. Initially the focus was on preserving fair competition as state support for banks ballooned in 2008–2009; but latterly the agenda has shifted to restoring or even increasing competition in banking markets. The issue of 'splitting up' or 'unbundling' banks arises in this context as well, either as part of state aid restructuring and recovery packages or to counter the effect of bank mergers and bank failures leading to greater concentration. The former is the preserve of the European Commission in the operation of the state aid rules. The divestments of businesses and assets required of RBS and Lloyds Banking Group as a condition of further state aid approval are examples. The latter is more problematic—generally speaking, absent illegal conduct, the splitting up of companies to promote competition is difficult territory for com- petition authorities, although it is routine for competition authorities to require structural remedies such as divestitures in merger cases. In the UK, perhaps unusually by comparison with other jurisdictions, the market investigation regime does allow such interventions. 4 In addition to the Governor of the Bank of England, and the former Chair of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee already mentioned, these have included Dr Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat former spokesperson on Treasury Affairs (now the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the newly formed coalition government). 5 For proposals and developments in the USA, see for example: US Senate debates finance reform bill, The Financial Times Online, 30 April 2010; The case for a Glass-Steagall Lite, The Financial Times Online, 11 March 2010. 6 It appears that in the UK an independent commission will be established to consider this question: See The Guardian, 13 May 2010; The Independent, 13 May 2010. 3 Recent issues It is not as if competition concerns have been absent from the banking sector. There has been a wide range of competition and consumer issues arising in banking markets in recent years. These include cases where competition law has been applied, consideration of state intervention, merger control, and more wide-ranging examination of structural or consumer issues: Enforcement • The possible investigation of investment bank fees. 7 • Price collusion between RBS and Barclays in relation to pricing of loan products to large professional services firms. 8 • Various cases involving payment systems including antitrust enforcement actions in the UK and by the European Commission against Visa and MasterCard (including Maestro) interchange fees 9 as well as the report from the Payments Council referring to the likely demise of cheque payments by 2018. 10 Government intervention • Office of Fair Trading (OFT) report on Northern Rock and the impact of public support on competition. 11 • OFT report and ultimate approval by the Secretary of State of the Lloyds/HBoS merger. 12 Consumer-facing markets A variety of cases involving specific consumer-facing markets: • the CC inquiries into Personal Banking in Northern Ireland 13 and Payment Protection Insurance 14 (PPI) (ongoing); • OFT activity against 'unfair' bank 15 and credit card default charges; 16 • OFT review of barriers to entry, exit and expansion in the retail banking market; 17 and 7 See, for example, comments by then Minister Lord Myners (The Independent, 4 April 2010). 8 RBS agreed to pay a fine of £28.5 million imposed by the OFT for sharing confidential future pricing information with Barclays. Barclays secured 100 per cent leniency from fines (OFT news release 30 March 2010). 9 For a handy summary of the various UK and EU enforcement actions, please go to www.oft.gov.uk/oft_at_work/markets/ services/mastercard-visa/. 10 See news release by the Payments Council, 14 April 2010. 11 OFT press release and report, 10 March 2009. 12 OFT report on proposed merger, 31 October 2008; Decision of Secretary of State dated 31 October 2008 not to refer the merger to the CC. On 10 December 2008, the Competition Appeal Tribunal dismissed the application of the Merger Action Group for review of the Secretary of State's decision to approve the merger. 13 Personal current account banking services in Northern Ireland market investigation, 15 May 2007. 14 Market investigation into payment protection insurance, 29 January 2009. 15 Investigation opened by the OFT in March 2007 under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations to review the fairness of personal current account contract terms providing for unarranged overdraft charges. The investigation led to a test case as to whether the OFT had the power to review those terms in full for fairness. The Supreme Court ultimately decided against the OFT, which abandoned the investigation. The OFT obtained undertakings from the banks for improvements in the next two years (OFT press release 7 October 2009; OFT follow-up report and press release 16 March 2010). 16 See OFT press release 5 April 2006. Also OFT press release 1 April 2008 regarding enforcement action against Clydesdale Financial Services Limited to reduce store card default charges. 17 See article by Philip Collins, OFT Chairman, The Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2010. 4 • super-complaint by Consumer Focus on low ISA interest rates. 18 Other • OFT strategy/plan for Financial Services. 19 • EU sector inquiry into aspects of financial services. 20 A possible market investigation? These cases have either tended to focus on individual sub-sectors of the financial services industry or they have stopped short of being a comprehensive overall investigation, leading to definite measures. It may therefore be useful to consider what would happen if a CC mar- ket investigation of the banking sector were to be proposed. How would it be scoped? Would it be general or specific in nature? What 'theory of harm' would be involved? I emphasize of course this is all entirely hypothetical at this stage. Potential scope The potential scope is extremely large. The CC's investigations are subject to a statutory time limit of two years, and it would be necessary to be realistic. The flexibility and ability to see the bigger picture that comes from a broad field of investigation would need to be balanced against the risk of being overwhelmed with data and losing the necessary focus. For example: • the CC's PPI investigation covered one specific set of products and involved 20 main parties and very large amounts of data; and • the CC's Northern Ireland Personal Banking case involved one sector in one small part of the UK, and nevertheless generated much data and evidence, even with fewer main parties. Nevertheless, tackling large and complex sectors has not daunted the CC in the past and there are plenty of examples of wide-ranging investigations into many-faceted industries. Depending on the terms of reference, such an investigation could potentially cover the supply of banking services provided to personal and business customers (for example SMEs) and to services provided between banks as well as the nature and extent of compe- tition and cooperation between banks. Activities other than lending, liquidity and deposit taking might also be involved (eg advisory and capital-raising services by investment banks). Assessment of market power Whatever the scope, the essential task would be to assess whether one or more banks enjoyed market power, either individually or collectively, in a defined market, which they were able to exploit to the detriment of customers and the consumer. Such an investigation would follow the statutory framework and would explore the core competition issues in the sector including market definition and structural features of the market, unilateral effects, coordinated effects and customer behaviour. Nevertheless, this 18 The Daily Mail and The Times, 31 March 2010; OFT press release (36/10), 31 March 2010. 19 Financial Services Plan, OFT (OFT1106), July 2009; OFT news release 7 April 2009, OFT launches consultation on its proposed Financial Services Strategy. 20 Report of the European Commission following its sector inquiry into retail banking, 31 January 2007. 5 would be no ordinary investigation and it would be necessary to consider a number of wider issues. The effect of government intervention It would first have to consider whether the participation of the Government in the ownership of particular banks, as a result of emergency intervention to ensure financial stability, was having a distorting effect on competition. That effect might be seen, for example, in a bank's enhanced ability to attract depositors, or in the products/services/terms which a bank offers and which (under the Government's direction) may not wholly reflect normal competitive pressures. This is a topic already examined by the OFT in the UK context 21 but there may be more to say on the subject. The Lloyds/HBoS legacy Such an investigation could also cover the legacy of the Lloyds/HBoS merger (which was cleared by the Secretary of State to preserve financial stability, although the OFT had identified competition issues in some markets). There is a continuing need to assess the competitive effects of this merger. Possible additional public interest considerations Finally, it is very important that any competition investigation should not 'go off on its own'. Particularly if there is ongoing consideration of wider prudential or moral hazard measures in progress, coordination between these strands and competition is highly advisable. It is, of course, both possible and desirable to take account of wider issues such as the need to maintain financial stability in the context of a market investigation conducted on competition grounds, both in the analysis and in any remedies. 22 In this context, it should be noted that the UK's market investigation regime, 23 just as with the merger regime, 24 provides for Ministers to be able to intervene on specific public interest grounds, as they did in the Lloyds/HBoS merger. This mechanism would enable Ministers to take wider issues, such as financial stability, into account when considering the CC's findings on competition and could help to counter any criticism that any CC investigation would be too narrowly focused and assist in coordinating it with other measures in train, including, for example, the separate examination of prudential issues currently planned by the new UK Government. Focusing the analysis Accepting that the investigation would have this significant, wider context, there would still need to be a competition analysis. In thinking about the most appropriate level at which to conduct this, it would be necessary to consider whether it was appropriate to focus on particular products and services (eg mortgages and current accounts) on particular types of customer (personal, SMEs, large companies) or particular geographic areas (eg Scotland). 21 See OFT press release (109/09) and Guide Government in Markets: Why competition matters—a guide for policy makers (OFT113), 8 September 2009. 22 See the CC Report The supply of banking services by clearing banks to small and medium-sized enterprises: A report on the supply of banking services by clearing banks to small and medium-sized enterprises within the UK, Cm 5319 (2002) particularly in the consideration of bank profitability. 23 Section 139 Enterprise Act 2002. 24 Section 42 Enterprise Act 2002. 6 Concentration In looking at the structure of individual banking markets, concentration ratios alone are usually a poor guide to proper analysis of levels of competition; similarly with market shares. But these can provide a helpful starting point and provide the trigger for further investigation. Any investigation would need to pay much attention to entry barriers—physical (eg bank branches), reputation and brands—and regulation. These are more reliable indicators of the state of competition. A detailed consideration of the regulatory framework would be needed in particular. Inter-bank supply and cooperation While detailed analysis of individual markets would be an important part of any such review, it would be unwise to neglect the overall picture of how banks compete with each other, and where they need to cooperate. The UK's Cruickshank Review (2000) (an informal but wide- ranging review) examined the relationships of UK banks with each other and numerous aspects of cooperation between banks (including in areas such as payment systems where some degree of cooperation is clearly unavoidable and desirable), and the banks' relation- ship with government. The overall picture was not entirely a favourable one, even in the kinder economic climate of the times, and its findings may need to be re-examined in the light of recent events. Considering what areas of cooperation between banks are essential leads, of course, back to the issue of financial stability and the contribution of banks to the functioning of the economy as a whole. Possible remedies—divestment? However it were scoped and specified, if serious problems were found, such a market investigation would probably involve among many other things consideration of structural remedies and possible break up of businesses. The CC's SME Banking inquiry 25 considered carefully the possible divestment or opening up of retail branch networks. In the event divestment was not recommended. The European Commission's RBS and Lloyds state aid measures included requirements to divest businesses and retail branches. The objective of such structural measures is to make new entry to the market easier and help the growth of new competitors, so that there is more rivalry in the market. There are many other remedies available, however, and it may be that other measures to improve competition and encourage new entry and expansion would be better. EU-wide coordination? It should be asked whether a market investigation by one member state alone is appropriate when similar issues may arise across other parts of the EU. There may be scope for parallel and coordinated activity by the authorities, although there are considerable differences between the powers available to authorities across the EU. There may also be calls for a renewal or update of the earlier EU sector inquiry. The need for caution I must emphasize that this discussion of issues is purely hypothetical and any actual investigation should be approached with great care. The memories of financial crisis are all too recent. It is also not the task of the competition authorities to take steps to enhance 25 See footnote 22. 7 competition which may damage prospects for economic recovery. But we have learned a number of lessons from recent events: • financial markets are not necessarily self-correcting; and the rescue measures and accompanying regulation can, themselves, stifle competition; • banks are of central importance to economic activity but they are also commercial organizations selling products and services to customers and can enjoy market power which can be exploited in a harmful way; and • while, in extreme cases, it may be necessary to override competition law to preserve financial stability, there is no logic in a permanent exemption for banks from competition law. Conclusion The question of 'unbundling' as posed by this session therefore has two faces. One is as a further measure to tackle prudential/moral hazard issues, in particular to prevent the mis- allocation of risk and excessive leverage on the basis of inadequate capital. That is very much a matter for the Government and the financial authorities and I have alluded to it only briefly. The other face of the issue is the need to ensure that banking markets are competi- tive in the interest of consumers and an efficient economy. That is more, but not exclusively, a matter for the competition authorities, which in the UK can initiate an investigation, although it is open to the Government to intervene to ensure that wider issues are taken into account in any measures to be taken. Such an investigation would not be straightforward, either in scope or in execution. Whilst it is always easier to focus on particular issues or sectors, the bigger picture needs to be looked at also. And the investigation would have to be realistic, fair and concluded in a reasonable time, to avoid placing further, unacceptable, burdens on an already stressed sector. But there is no reason to think that such concerns could not successfully be over- come as the market investigation regime is flexible and comprehensive. My purpose today is not to advocate any particular investigation, but instead to outline what could be done, and how the competition authorities' contribution to such a major issue of public interest could be made. Nor should one think that the outcome of a market investi- gation would inevitably be structural measures or divestments. 'Breaking up the banks' for prudential purposes is a different issue, which should, and in the UK will be, considered separately. But, equally, no sensible competition investigation would fail to take into account the need to maintain financial stability and the impact of systemic risk both on the analysis and any remedies. Let me conclude by again quoting the Governor of the Bank of England: As in the English Premier League, getting into the top four will not be easy for those outside it … I hope greater competition will produce less rigidity in the composition of the top four.26 The Governor has been proved right in terms of the 2010 football results, with the ascend- ance of a new club to the top four (though sadly for the Governor, not his beloved Aston Villa). Let us hope his foresight extends to competition in banking. 26 See earlier reference to the speech. 8
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An article conveyor comprises a pair of belts, each trained around a pair of pulleys, with straight stretches between said pulleys. The four straight belt stretches are coplanar and parallel. One pulley for each belt is so driven that the belts move in opposite orbital directions. Corresponding stretches of the two belts are confined to lengthwise motion, as by additional freely rotatable pulleys or by a rail-like member for each of said stretches having a groove in which the belt is slidingly received. Each article carrier has belt engaging portions with long, laterally oppositely opening grooves in which said belt stretches are received, so that said stretches support and drive the carrier.
1. A conveyor which can have its driving apparatus mounted wholly beneath a structure that defines a supporting surface such as a floor or a table top and by which articles can be transported over and along said surface, said conveyor being characterized by:
A. a pair of elongated, endless belt elements;
B. two pairs of pulley-like members, one pair for each of said belt elements and around which the belt element is trained;
C. means constraining the pulley-like members to rotation on spaced apart axes normal to said surface and fixing the locations of the pulley-like members in such relation to one another that
1. all of said pulley-like members are located beneath said structure and are disposed in a common plane that is parallel to said surface,
2. each of said belt elements has straight inner and outer stretches extending lengthwise between its pulley-like members, the inner stretches of the two belt elements being adjacent to one another and their outer stretches being remote from one another, and
3. at least one stretch of each belt element is parallel to its corresponding stretch of the other belt element;
D. means for rotatably driving one of the pulley-like members of each pair thereof, said means constraining said driven pulley-like members to rotate at substantially equal circumferential speeds but in opposite directions so that said parallel stretches of the two belt elements move lengthwise in the same direction; and
E. a carriage having
1. an article carrying portion adapted to overlie a portion of said surface of said structure and
2. belt engaging members fixed to said article carrying portion and projecting downwardly therefrom to extend through elongated slots in said structure, said belt engaging members having bottom portions that define elongated, laterally oppositely opening grooves in which said parallel stretches of the two belt elements are receivable to support the carriage and frictionally drive it in the direction of movement of said parallel stretches.
2. The conveyor of claim 1, further characterized by:
F. guide means at fixed locations along said parallel stretches of the belt elements, engaging said stretches and cooperating with the belt engaging portions of the carriage to confine them to lengthwise motion.
3. The conveyor of claim 1, further characterized by:
F. strips of resilient, supple material, each secured along one edge portion to said structure, said strips extending across said slots in said structure to close the same, and the supple resilience of said strips allowing them to be deflectingly displaced by the belt engaging members on a carriage as it is moved along said surface of said structure.
This invention relates to conveyors by which various kinds of articles can be moved along a defined path, and the invention is more specifically concerned with an unusually versatile article conveyor that is advantageously adaptable to a wide variety of installations and to the transportation of many different kinds of articles.
A number of requirements can be set down for a satisfactory article conveyor. The importance of any one of these requirements depends upon the function and purpose of the particular conveyor to which it is applied, but complete satisfaction of all of the requirements is very desirable in every conveyor system. For example, a conveyor installed in a hospital, for transporting medical equipment, linens and the like, must operate with nearly absolute silence. Quiet operation is not so important in a conveyor used for transporting workpieces to and from machine tools in a manufacturing plant; but even in a machine shop a quietly operating conveyor is greatly preferable to a noisy one.
Again, a conveyor used for bringing workpieces to and from an automatic machine tool should lend itself to precise positioning of each workpiece at the machine, so that the operation performed there will be accomplished accurately. While the capability for such accurate positioning may not be of great importance in a hospital conveyor, it is certainly not undesirable, especially if it can be attained without any offsetting disadvantage.
Other attributes that are either essential or very desirable in an article conveyor suggest themselves when consideration is given to the wide range of applications for such conveyors. Thus conveyors can be used for stocking goods in a central warehouse and for distributing goods from their storage locations in a warehouse to points of sale or shipment; for transporting luggage at airports and similar terminals; for sorting and distributing mail at postoffices and for moving mail, documents and parcels within large buildings; and for transporting people within a large building or a part of a city.
From these and other conveyor applications that they suggest, it is apparent that a good article conveyor should be so arranged that its carriers or transporting units can have any of a variety of forms, as, for example, flat plates or trays, boxes or bins, hooks or slings, or specially designed fixtures for holding piece parts to be operated upon by a machine tool. Preferably, too, the conveyor apparatus should be so arranged that different kinds of transporting units can be used with its drive means, and can be randomly distributed along its length.
It is essential in many conveyor applications that there be provision for routing carriers of the conveyor system along alternate paths, to or from any selected one of several possible stations, and that the routing of carriers at junction and diversion points be accomplished quickly, smoothly and without interfering with the movement of other nearby carriers. In this connection it is often necessary that a conveyor system be capable of moving articles for a distance along a substantially horizontal path at one level and then transporting them up or down to another path portion or to a storage location at another level. In some cases, too, it may be very important that an article conveyor be capable of changing the orientation of an article and of effecting such change in orientation simultaneously with transportation of the article along a part of the conveyor path so that the article is in a desired orientation immediately upon arrival at its destination.
Another requirement that is important in some applications is that the conveyor system be compatible with other traffic. In such cases it may be necessary that the carriers of the conveyor system shall move along the same floor or pavement as other vehicles and pedestrians.
There are also installations in which it is important that the carriers be capable of starting, stopping and changing direction smoothly, silently and without shock to articles being transported.
Another requirement that is perhaps important in every application but has seldom been satisfied in prior practice is that a conveyor system be so arranged as to lend itself to modular construction, so that the requirements of almost every conceivable installation can be met by a combination of standardized units of a limited number of different configurations. Such modular design, when achieved, obviously makes for low cost of the conveyor system and also has the advantage of expediting and simplifying its installation.
It goes without saying that low cost, simplicity, sturdiness, reliability, and ease of maintenance and repair are important requirements of any article conveyor.
Prior article conveyor systems have been able to meet some of these requirements satisfactorily, but heretofore no article conveyor has been able to fulfill all of them so completely and satisfactorily as to commend itself to every conceivable type of application.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an article conveyor system which very satisfactorily meets all of the above stated requirements, and which is thus usually versatile, being suitable for such widely diversified environments as hospitals, machine shops and offices.
Another object of this invention is to provide an article conveyor system which does not involve the chain drive that has heretofore characterized many such conveyors, and which therefore avoids the noise, complexity, heavy weight and high cost that inhere in chain conveyors, without, however, sacrificing any of the advantages of chain conveyors such as efficiency, versatility, durability and adaptability to widely varying applications.
With these observations and objectives in mind, the manner in which the invention achieves its purpose will be appreciated from the following description and the accompanying drawings, which exemplify the invention, it being understood that changes may be made in the specific apparatus disclosed herein without departing from the essentials of the invention set forth in the appended claims.
The accompanying drawings illustrate several complete examples of embodiments of the invention constructed according to the best modes so far devised for the practical application of the principles thereof, and in which:
FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of one module of an article conveyor system that embodies the principles of the present invention, equipped with an article carrier which is capable of transporting any of a wide variety of types of articles but which is particularly intended to serve as a fixture plate to which a workpiece can be secured by means of stops and clamps;
FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view of the article carrier or carriage of the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a view in cross section of an embodiment of the invention similar to that illustrated in FIG. 1 but with the carriage driving and supporting means of the conveyor mounted beneath a floor or similar surface that is intended to carry other traffic;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view generally like FIG. 1 but illustrating a substantially modified embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 5 is a top perspective view on an enlarged scale of the article carrier of the embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIG. 4.
FIGS. 6a-6e are fragmentary views in transverse vertical section illustrating several other modified embodiments of the invention;
FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 are views in transverse vertical section illustrating different arrangements whereby a workpiece secured to an article carrier of a conveyor of this invention can be held in a predetermined position to be operated upon by means of a machine tool;
FIG. 10 is a perspective view illustrating how a number of different modular units embodying the principles of this invention can be combined into a conveyor system adapted for cooperation with several different machine tools; and
FIG. 11 is a perspective view illustrating conveyor modules of this invention in their cooperation with a lathe chuck station.
Referring now to the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1a designates one form of modular conveyor unit embodying the principles of the present invention, adapted to be mounted above a floor or other supporting surface and thus comprising a frame 2 having legs which support a horizontal plate 3 that is in the nature of a table top. Flatwise overlying the plate 3 are a number of identical pulleys 4 that are arranged in two straight, parallel rows. All of the pulleys are constrained to rotation on upright axes that are fixed in relation to the plate or table top 3. An additional pulley 5 at one end of each row is similar to the other pulleys 4, but, instead of being freely rotatable, is rotatably driven. As shown, the pulley 5 for the left-hand row is driven by a directly coupled electric motor 7 which is mounted beneath the table top, and the pulley 5 for the right-hand row is driven by a similar motor 8, but the motors 7 and 8 drive the respective pulleys 5 in opposite directions. Obviously a single motor could be arranged to drive both pulleys 5. As the description proceeds it will be observed that in some cases the drive means for the pulleys 5 should be a reversible one, to provide for operation of the conveyor unit in either direction.
Trained around each row of pulleys 4, 5 is a flexible, elongated, endless belt 6 which serves as a driving and supporting element for article carriers 10 and which can be a more or less conventional power transmission belt. Between the driving pulley 5 at one end of each row and the freely rotatable pulley 4 at the opposite end of the row, each of the belts 6 has a pair of straight stretches that are supported and confined to lengthwise motion by the other pulleys 4 of its row. The four straight stretches of the two belts of course lie in a common plane parallel to the table top 6 and are all parallel to one another. Because of the opposite directions of rotation of the two pulleys 5, the laterally adjacent stretches of the two belts 6 -- which can be regarded as their inner stretches -- both move in one direction, while their outer stretches both move in the opposite direction.
The conveyor unit 1a is illustrated with a carriage or article transporting carrier 10 that has its body portion in the form of a fixture plate to which a workpiece can be secured to be presented to a machine tool. Projecting downwardly from the body portion of the carriage 10 and extending lengthwise along it are flange-like belt engaging portions 11 and 12. Each of the belt engaging portions is formed with a longitudinally extending groove 13 in which a belt 6 is receivable. The grooves 13 in the two belt engaging portions of the carriage open in laterally opposite directions and receive corresponding stretches of the two belts, that is, they cooperate with either the inner stretches or the outer stretches to support the carriage on those belt stretches and to frictionally constrain the carriage to move with them. As shown in FIG. 1 the belt engaging portions 11 and 12 cooperate with the outer stretches of the two belts, and the grooves 13 in them open towards one another.
It will be apparent that each of the flange-like members 11 and 12 cooperates with the pulleys that it opposes to constrain its adjacent stretch of the belt to lengthwise motion, and it is in turn confined by the belt stretch against any motion transverse thereto while being frictionally constrained to move lengthwise with the belt stretch. It will also be apparent that the groove defining portions of the flange-like members are preferably long enough to oppose three or more pulleys simultaneously, to enable the carriage to be smoothly transferred to another generally similar module established in end-to-end relation to the one illustrated.
As shown in FIG. 3, the pulleys 4, 5 of each row and the belt 6 that is trained around them can be received in suitable recesses beneath the surface of a floor or machine table 15. The flange-like belt engaging portions 11 and 12 of the carriage 10 extend down into slots 16 that open upwardly from the recesses in which the pulleys and belts are housed, so that they can engage the belts while the plate-like body of the carriage rides along above the floor. For protection of the drive mechanism the slots 16 can be closed by strips 15a of rubber of similar resilient material that are yieldingly displaced by passage of the flange-like members. It will be apparent that the presence of the conveyor system will not interfere with other traffic that has to cross its path, and it will also be observed that the area above the conveyor system is completely clear and unobstructed at all times that a carriage is not present in it.
In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIG. 4, the modular unit 1b has a table-like frame 19 that is substantially wider than its carriage or article carrier 21, and its top can have a large central cutout 20. In this case the carriage 21 cooperates with the inner stretches of the belts 6, which are spaced apart by a substantial distance. As best seen in FIG. 5, the body plate of the carriage is square in planform, and the belt engaging portions of the body plate comprise its four edge portions, which are provided with edgewise outwardly opening grooves 22, 23. In effect the body plate is directly confined between the inner stretches of the two belts.
To further illustrate the variety of forms in which the invention can be embodied, FIG. 4 shows the right hand belt 6 trained around a row of pulleys 4, 5, as in the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, but the left-hand belt 6 is trained around only a driven pulley 5 and a single freely rotatable pulley 4. The inner straight stretch of the left-hand belt is confined against lateral displacement by a support rail 20a that is provided with a groove in which the belt rides.
FIGS. 6a-6e illustrate further modifications of the carriage, the belts 6, and the drive and support means for the belts.
In FIG. 6a the carriage 21 is like that illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5, and the belt 6 is supported by a row of pulleys 4, 5 as in the right hand part of FIG. 4. In this case the belt 6 is of round cross section and is made of an elastic material, such as rubber, but has a central reinforcing cord 25. The grooves 9 and 22 in the pulleys and the carriage respectively are V-shaped, to cooperate with the round belt in supporting and driving the carriage. It will be apparent that the elasticity of the belts provides for some small displacement of the carriage relative to the pulleys, in directions transverse to the belt stretches, to enable the carriage to be established in an accurate position of adjustment at a machine tool while the carriage remains engaged with the belts.
The embodiment illustrated in FIG. 6b is like that illustrated in FIG. 6a with respect to its pulley 4b, 5b and carriage 21b, but the side surfaces of the V-shaped belt receiving grooves 9b and 22b are more sharply angled to accommodate a cord-reinforced elastic belt 6B of rhombic cross section.
In FIG. 6c the belt 6c is of substantially inelastic material, such as steel cable. The necessary elasticity for insuring good driving engagement between the carriage 21c and the belt, and for enabling the carriage to be displaced small distances transversely relative to the straight stretches of the belts, is obtained by forming the belt engaging portion of the carriage as a strip 26 of elastic material in which the V-shaped belt engaging groove is formed and which is snugly received in a channel-shaped groove in the carriage that extends along its full length. The elastic belt-engaging portion 26 can be made of rubber and can be vulcanized to the body of the carriage.
FIG. 6d illustrates an arrangement generally like that shown at the left-hand side of FIG. 4, wherein a cord-reinforced elastic belt 6 of circular cross section is trained around a pair of pulleys 4, 5 and has one of its straight stretches supported by a lengthwise extending rail-like member 20a that has a groove 20b in which the belt is guidingly received.
In FIG. 6e the belt 6e is shown with a V-shaped cross-section and is made of elastic material reinforced with cords 25. The pulleys 4e, 5e are crowned instead of grooved, with a V-shaped convex periphery 27 that is receivable between the legs of the belt. The carriage 21e has a V-shaped groove 22e in which the belt is closely receivable.
It will be obvious that the body plate of the carriage could comprise a tray or the bottom part of a traveling bin or the like. However, in the embodiments of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1-7 the carriage is shown as comprising a fixture plate with inverted T-shaped slots 14 that open to its upper surface, spaced from one another at equal intervals and crossing one another at right angles. Various holders, fixtures and clamps can be removably received in these grooves.
FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 illustrate various arrangements by which a workpiece mounted upon a carriage of an article conveyor of this invention can be established in exactly a desired position and orientation at a machine tool work station, to have one or more operations performed upon it by the machine tool.
In FIG. 7, a conveyor generally like that of FIG. 1 presents a workpiece 31 to a pair of machine tool elements 28, 29, which may be drills, milling cutters or the like and which are intended to operate upon the workpiece. Clamps 32 and 33, anchored in the T-slots 14 of the carriage, secure the workpiece to the carriage. At the station at which the tool elements 28 and 29 are to operate there is a clamping structure which is generally designated by 30 and which comprises clamping shoulders 34 and 35 that overlie top surface portions of the carriage near opposite side edges thereof. Rams 36 and 37, located generally beneath the clamping shoulders 34 and 35, can be raised to engage the underside of the carriage and force the carriage up into clamping engagement with the clamping shoulders. Upwardly projecting positioning pins 38 on the rams are receivable in guide holes 39 in the carriage body when the rams are raised, to establish the carriage in a desired position and confine it against edgewise displacement. Since the clamping shoulders 34 and 35 need be spaced no more than about 0.5 mm above the top surface of the carriage when the carriage is normally supported, the resilience of the belts 6 can readily accomodate the slight displacement of the carriage that brings it to the position in which it is clamped by the rams and clamping shoulders.
As illustrated in FIG. 8, a workpiece 31 is secured to a carriage 43 comprising a fixture plate of different form, by means of clamps 40, 41, 42 that may comprise a more or less permanent part of the carriage assembly. Since the carriage itself is not intended to be secured to any station structure, and therefore need not absorb any machining forces, it can comprise a fixture plate which is smaller and lighter than those described above. In this case one or more horizontally movable rams 44 engage one side of the workpiece itself to clampingly force it against one or more fixed guide shoulders 45 at its other side. The rams and the guide shoulders have V-grooves 46 and 47, respectively, in their workpiece engaging faces, to establish the position of the workpiece in the up and down directions and also in directions edgewise of the fixture plate of the carriage. Again, displacements of the carriage from its normal belt-supported position are accommodated by elasticity of the belts 6.
FIG. 9 illustrates a carriage comprising a somewhat heavier fixture plate 50 than that illustrated in FIG. 8, to which a workpiece 31 is secured by means of clamps 48, 49. A jig 51 is clamped to the top of the workpiece and extends across it. Bushings 52, 53 in the jig receive and guide the respective machine tool elements 28 and 29 for their operation upon the workpiece. Any displacement of the jig 51 and workpiece 31 that is required to enable the tool elements 28 and 29 to enter the bushings 52 and 53 can be absorbed by the elasticity of the belts 6.
FIG. 10 illustrates how a number of different modular conveyor units of this invention can be combined in a complete conveyor system that provides for performance of a number of conveying, storing and machining functions
An infeed portion 54 of the conveyor is illustrated as corresponding to the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 3, with the drive and support mechanism of the conveyor installed beneath the workshop floor. A carriage 10 to which a workpiece 31 is clamped moves along just above the surface of the floor. The conveyor portion 54 brings the carriage to a floor shaft 55 at which there is an elevator or hoisting mechanism 56 comprising an upright frame 57 that affords guidance to a vertically translatable conveyor module 58. The module 58 has drive and support mechanism comprising pulleys and short belts mounted on a horizontal shelf 59 that is guided by the frame 57 for up and down motion. The shelf 59 is moved up and down by a jack screw 61 driven by a directly coupled electric motor 60 mounted on the frame 57. With the shelf 59 in its lowermost position it can receive a carriage 10 from the conveyor module 54 and then raise the carriage to the level of another module 62 which is at an elevation above the floor and which in turn moves the carriage to a turntable 63h.
There is a short length of conveyor 64 on the turntable, which rotates on an upright axis. When the turntable is in its rotational position in which the conveyor section 64 thereon is aligned with the conveyor section 62, the turntable module can forward a carriage straight through to another lengthwise aligned elevated module 65. Alternatively, the turntable can be rotated through 90� to align its conveyor segment with transverse conveyor segment modules 70 and 72. The module 70 comprises another elevator, with a shelf 71 that is guided for up and down movement by means of a frame 69. The elevator module 70 cooperates with a buffer store 68 having superimposed fixed horizontal shelves, each comprising a short module. The elevatable module 70 can be moved vertically to the level of any of the shelves of the buffer store, to enable a carriage and the workpiece thereon to be fed into or removed from the buffer store. The short module 72 at the opposite side of the turntable from the buffer store feeds carriages onto and off of another short conveyor module 75, comprising a table 74 that is longitudinally slidable on ways 73, said ways being in turn slidable on transverse bed ways 67. The bed ways 67 may comprise part of a machine tool having a clamping station such as is shown in FIG. 7.
The short elevated conveyor module 65 feeds carriages onto another conveyor module 76 that comprises a shelf-like member 77 hinged along one longitudinal side edge to swing between a horizontal position, aligned with the module 65, and a vertical position aligned with a further module 78 along which carriages move in a vertical onedge position. A suitable ram or the like (not shown) swings the module 77 about its hinge axis and can thus change the orientation of a carriage (and the workpiece it carries) as the carriage is being transported lengthwise along the module 77. The module 78 is mounted on an upright portion 80 of the frame 79 of a machine tool. A multi-spindle drilling head 81 of the machine tool is movable axially on ways 79 that constitute a part of the machine frame to carry tools into and out of engagement with a workpiece on the conveyor segment 78. While the tools of the head 81 are acting upon the workpiece, the carriage to which it is fixed is held by a clamping station 82.
From the module 78 carriages can be fed onto a module 64 which comprises another turntable 63v, rotatable on a horizontal axis. From that turntable carriages can in turn be moved onto an upwardly extending conveyor unit 84 that transports the carriages vertically up the wall 83 of the machine frame.
The routing of the carriages to and from the several conveyor modules and their movements along those modules can be controlled in a known manner, by suitable electronic or other control apparatus (not shown) in order to achieve optimal flow of workpieces through the machine group.
It will be apparent that machine tools of many different types can be fed and served by means of conveyor apparatus embodying the principles of this invention. By way of a further example, FIG. 11 illustrates a lathe 85 having a chuck 86 that is provided with a clamping station 87 of the general type shown in FIG. 7. A conveyor unit 88, of the general type shown in FIG. 3, is mounted in a vertical wall of the lathe frame, and each of the carriages cooperable with the conveyor is in the form of a fixture plate 89 to which a workpiece 90 can be secured by means of clamps 91 that comprise parts of the fixture plate assembly. The lathe chuck also comprises a short conveyor unit 92 of this invention and a clamping station comprising opposing shoulders 93. Rams (not shown) cause the shoulders 93 to clampingly confine the fixture plate 89 while the machining operation is in progress. At the conclusion of that operation the fixture plate is moved onto a further conveyor unit 94 at the opposite side of the chuck from the module 88.
From the foregoing description taken with the accompanying drawings it will be apparent that this invention provides an article conveyor that is quiet in operation, unusually versatile, inexpensive, trouble free, and nicely adapted to being constructed in the form of a number of standardized modules that can be readily combined in various ways to suit the requirements of any installation.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention can be embodied in forms other than as herein disclosed for purposes of illustration.
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