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News Release from: Elscint Automation | Subject: Stacking Machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2003
Stacking Machine Copes With Washers
The Elscint Stacking Machine is useful for stacking items like Bearings Cages and Bearing Washers or other components which need to be stacked in a production or assembly environment.
Components having a hole, such as washers, can be stacked with the Elscint Stacking Machine This can find applications in the Bearing, Battery and such allied Industries
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Useful for stacking items like bearings cages/bearing washers and such other components the stacking machine is for automatically feeding components into a vibratory bowl feeder.
Sorter and grader does not bind or grip parts
Designed to feed and sort and grade components having cylindrical and spherical geometry the rolls of this unit do not bind or grip the parts and are extremely sensitive to fine tolerances.
This Machine is mounted on a table frame of 1400 mm x 700 mm x 620 mm.
A Hopper with a storage capacity of 50 litres/130 Ltrs.
is placed on the left hand side.
Further reading
Rotary feeder orientates difficult comnponents
To be used for feeding special components, a mechanical rotary feeder is used to orientate parts than can not be ed by vibratory feeders.
Vibratory unit feeds different nails at high speed
Vibratory bowl feeder feeds various sizes of nails in a head up position at speeds up to 1000 pieces/min.
From this hopper the components when loaded will be unloaded into the tray of the Elscint Linear Feeder, having some inclination.
This will allow the components to move into the Elscint Vibratory Bowl Feeder which has a Level Controller.
Thus, when adequate quantity of the components are lowered into the bowl, the Elscint Linear Feeder will be switched off.
Whenever the quantity in the Bowl goes below a predetermined lever, the Elscint Linear Feeder will be activated and loading of the components into the Elscint Vibratory Feeder Bowl will restart.
The Components will move upwards on the track of the bowl and in the path they will be oriented according to the users requirement and only properly oriented components will be lowered into the metal magazine in front of the Elscint Vibratory Bowl Feeder.
Metal magazines, total 6 to 12 in number depending upon the Component size are mounted on an Indexing Table, which is operated by Festo make Pneumatics.
Two proximity switches are mounted to sense the component level onto the metal magazine.
When the components are filled upto the level of both the proximity switches then the Elscint Vibratory Bowl Feeder will be switched off and pneumatic solenoid having 230Volts AC powered coil will be operated and indexing table will be move to the next stage, bringing the empty magazine at the loading station.
At this point the Elscint Vibratory Bowl Feeder will start again and stacking operation will continue.
In case the components cannot be stacked properly due to their in built dimension, an Elscint Agitator Vibrator can be provided at the lower level, which is having Rt.
angular holder where the Components will be resting while being stacked.
This Elscint Agitator Vibrator is timed to start and stop, which imparts the vibration to the stacked components.
Due to these vibrations the components, which are not stacked properly, are given rotary movement get properly stacked.
This system uses Elscint Vibratory Feeder Model 250 or 400, Elscint Linear Feeder Model I or II, Elscint Hopper Feeder, Elscint Indexing Table and Elscint Agitator Vibrator.
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