Claims
- 1. A tooling jig system, comprising:
- an alignment frame having plural fiducial fastening devices at spaced locations thereon and a conveyor guide extending along a length of said alignment frame; and,
- a magazine adjacent said alignment frame, comprising:
- a magazine conveyor guide in alignment with the conveyor guide of said alignment frame,
- a conveyor frame including guide means for confining movement of said conveyor frame along a line of travel coincident with the conveyor guides of said magazine and alignment frame during travel of said conveyor frame from said magazine to said alignment frame,
- plural fiducial fastening devices at spaced locations on said conveyor frame, and
- means for moving said conveyor frame from a starting location in said magazine to an end-of-travel location in said alignment frame.
- 2. The tooling jig system of claim 1 wherein:
- said fiducial fastening devices on said alignment frame comprise means for fastening a product detail onto said alignment frame, and
- said fiducial fastening devices on said conveyor frame comprise means for fastening a tooling detail onto said conveyor frame.
- 3. The tooling jig system of claim 2 wherein:
- said means for fastening of said alignment frame comprise bolt holes in said alignment frame and bolts insertable through said bolt holes and through matching bolt holes in a product detail on said alignment frame, and
- said means for fastening of said conveyor frame comprise bolt holes in said conveyor frame and bolts insertable through said bolt holes and through matching bolt holes in a tooling detail on said conveyor frame.
- 4. The tooling jig system of claim 1 further comprising means for detecting a proximity of said conveyor frame to an initial end-of-travel position thereof relative to said alignment frame.
- 5. The tooling jig system of claim 4 wherein said means for detecting detects a proximity of said conveyor frame along each one of plural mutually orthogonal directions.
- 6. The tooling jig system of claim 5 further comprising means for recording successive proximity deviations from an initial end-of-travel position of said conveyor frame relative to said alignment frame.
- 7. The tooling jig system of claim 4 further comprising clamp means for fastening said conveyor frame to its end-of-travel position relative to said alignment frame.
- 8. The tooling jig system of claim 7 further comprising means responsive to said proximity detecting means for disabling said clamp means upon detection of an out-of-tolerance end-of-travel position.
- 9. The tooling jig system of claim 1 further comprising a floor fastened to said alignment frame and means for generating a downdraft across working planes of said alignment frame and for collecting said downdraft in said floor and filtering out contamination therein.
- 10. The tooling jig system of claim 9 further comprising means for tilting said floor upwardly to expose said means for filtering, and wherein said means for filtering is removable.
- 11. The tooling jig system of claim 1 further comprising movable jacks supporting said magazine and alignment frame, a level sensor attached to said alignment frame and means for adjusting said movable jacks so as to null an error signal generated by said level sensor.
- 12. The tooling jig system of claim 1 wherein said end-of-travel position is on a side of said alignment frame opposite said magazine, said system further comprising a second magazine having a conveyor guide therein aligned with and merging with said conveyor guide of said alignment frame, said second magazine comprising:
- a second conveyor frame including second guide means for confining movement of said second conveyor frame along a line of travel coincident with the conveyor guides of said second magazine and alignment frame during travel of said second conveyor frame from said second magazine to said alignment frame,
- plural fiducial fastening devices at spaced locations on said second conveyor frame, and
- means for moving said second conveyor frame from a starting location in said second magazine to an end-of-travel location in said alignment frame.
- 13. The tooling jig system of claim 12 wherein tooling details are insertable through open tops of the first and second magazines, whereby a tooling detail from one magazine is positionable facing said alignment frame while a tooling detail is replaceable in the other magazine.
- 14. The tooling jig system of claim 1 wherein tooling details are insertable and removable through an open top of said magazine.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of commonly-assigned patent application Ser. No. 08/182,992 filed on Jan. 14, Jan. 1994, now abandoned.
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