Cutting – With product handling means – Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces
Patent
1998-03-02
1999-12-28
Rachuba, M.
Cutting
With product handling means
Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces
83167, 83152, 83402, 4147957, 414797, 4147967, 4147901, 414793, 271 181, 271234, B23Q 700
Patent
active
060066385
ABSTRACT:
An automated sheet metal blanking apparatus includes a loading table having a conveyor horizontally moveable between a loading position wherein sheet metal pieces are loaded onto the conveyor and a destacking station wherein the conveyor transfers the sheet metal pieces onto the destacking station for subsequent processing. A qualifier receives and positions destacked sheet metal pieces. A steel rule die blanking press receives prepositioned sheet metal pieces from the qualifier. The lower die includes mechanical positioners for final positioning the sheet metal pieces. A feed manipulator including an elongated arm mounts a plurality of controllable vacuum pickups operable for transferring sheet metal pieces between the destacking station, qualifier and blanking press. The feed manipulator is moveable over the destacking station and qualifier and moveable in between the upper and lower dies. An unloading table adjacent a scrap station includes a conveyor horizontally moveable between an unloading position wherein sized blanks are unloaded from the conveyor and a stacking station wherein the conveyor picks up the sized blanks. A discharge manipulator including an elongated arm mounts at least two distinct pluralities of independently controllable vacuum pickups and is operable for transferring sheet metal scraps and sized blanks from between the upper and lower blanking dies and over the scrap station wherein scrap is deposited through the operation of one of the pluralities of vacuum pickups, and over the unloading table. A controller in communication with the operating components of the blanking apparatus automatically controls the operation of the blanking apparatus.
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Choi Stephen
Kendor Steel Rule Die, Inc.
Rachuba M.
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