Fig. 2. Basic building block 1 m beam. Fig. 3. Rolling mill with 1 m beam cap forming tools. was decided that it would be undesirable to have these packages (three vertical and three diagonal brace canisters) moving, due to their mass. Therefore, a separate pivoting, pick-up and transporting device was developed (Figure 6). The figure only shows two arms on the development canister, although the plan was to have four arms in order to assure positive brace gripping and transportation. Mechanization of the concept as it developed, and the desirability to either reload or replace empty canisters led us to consider another approach (Figure 7). This final approach divorced the transportation function from storage and dispensing. Transportation is now accomplished by a separate brace gripping and carriage mechanism (Figure 8) which has simplified overall mechanization of all brace storage and dispensing functions.
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