Article dispensing – With orienting – By manipulation of successive individual articles
Patent
1975-01-29
1977-09-27
Reeves, Robert B.
Article dispensing
With orienting
By manipulation of successive individual articles
198486, 198491, 221212, B65H 316
Patent
active
040506100
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a coil spring feeding apparatus comprising a coil spring magazine supported by a frame, having a discharge end, and adapted to contain a plurality of coil springs, a chain conveyor for transporting the coil springs in the magazine toward the discharge end, a belt conveyor extending transversely of the magazine adjacent the discharge end, structure for transferring the end coil spring in the magazine to the conveyor and including a magnet adapted for magnetically attracting and releasably holding the end coil spring and movable, across the conveyor, between a retracted position on the side of the conveyor remote from the magazine discharge end and an advanced position located adjacent to the magazine discharge end in position for magnetically attracting and releasably holding the end coil spring in the magazine, a cylinder for displacing the magnet between advanced and retracted positions, and a stripper located adjacent to the conveyor along the side thereof remote from the magazine discharge end and in the path of travel of the coil spring magnetically held by the magnet during magnet movement from the advanced to the retracted positions, whereby to strip the coil spring held by the magnet when the coil spring is positioned on the conveyor.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2575220 (1951-11-01), Hiller
patent: 3193136 (1965-07-01), Stumpf et al.
patent: 3441064 (1969-04-01), Fischer et al.
patent: 3794212 (1974-02-01), Check
Bartuska Francis J.
Frank L. Wells Company
Reeves Robert B.
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