When being sealed, insulating glass blanks (5) are held in a sealing station (2) gripped at the base by grippers (17) of a gripper arrangement (16) and/or by suction heads (15) and rest at the top against a roller beam (7) fitted with rollers (8). As the insulating glass blank (5) is sealed, only the nozzle (11) of a sealing assembly (10) moves along the outer edge of the insulating glass blank (5), which is stationary during the sealing process. When the lower edge of an insulating glass blank (5) is sealed, grippers (17) engaging the lower edge are released and move away downwards. Sealed insulating glass is removed from the sealing station (2) by a removal robot (24) onto the side opposite the sealing assembly (10), moved to a temporary store and placed therein on A-bearing supports (29) and fan frames (30) sorted according to production lots.

An apparatus for picking and placing a plate-like product comprises: a base; at least two guide rods disposed on said base vertically; a picking and placing device mounted on each of said guide rods vertically slidably, the picking and placing device is telescopic in a horizontal direction to smoothly and steadily pick and place the plate-like product; a driving device disposed on said base, said driving device connects with said picking and placing device for driving said pick and place device to slide along the respective guide rods.

When handling panel-shaped objects, such as glass panes, a gripping device (4) is used in order to remove the objects from stacks (1, 2), in which the objects are inclined towards the vertical, or to position the objects onto stacks (1, 2), wherein the gripping device allows at least two stacks (1, 2) of objects to be formed on bearing blocks, the stacks (1, 2) differing from each other. The gripping device (4) has at least two grippers which are independent of each other. Suction heads (7) are provided as the grippers of the gripping device (4), the suction heads being pivotal independently of each other into and out of the suction head working position associated with the objects. In the process, gripping device (4) suction heads (7) pivoted out of their operating position are arranged above the stacks (1, 2).

Equipment for the logistics of slab-shaped articles comprising one supplying plane of at least one slab-shaped article, one robotic gripping group of the slab-shaped article, a (tangible) movement component/unit/device/machine (or the like) of the gripping group along one direction of movement, a plurality of temporary storage stations of the slab-shaped article, one supporting frame of the slab-shaped article supported as an integral part to the movement component/unit/device/machine, and one unloading station of the supporting frame, wherein the gripping group is adapted to: take the slab-shaped article from the supplying plane, place the slab-shaped article on one of the storage stations, and take the slab-shaped article from one of the storage stations to place it on the supporting frame.

A black wheel for transporting an ultra-thin silicon wafer may include grooves provided on a side surface of the black wheel along a circumferential direction of the black wheel. Compressed air lines are respectively accommodated within the grooves, and an air outlet of each of the compressed air lines is provided to align with a side of the ultra-thin silicon wafer close to a next process device.

Provided is an apparatus for unloading insulating glass panels from a production line having an insertion device provided with a conveyor adapted to transport the insulating glass panels according to a transit direction from an entrance area close to the production line to an exit area for the insulating glass panels. The apparatus has a vertical support structure for keeping the insulating glass panels in an inclined position with respect to a vertical direction. The insertion device has a positioning device adapted to position separating elements above the conveyor so that the separating elements can be interposed between the insulating glass panels and the conveyor.

A sorting method and a sorting device for sorting glass panel cut pieces, as well as a device for producing cut-out glass panels with a cutting system for cutting raw glass panels into individual glass panel cut pieces, and with a sorting device of this type, as well as a method for producing cut-out glass panels.