Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station...
Patent
1987-09-01
1992-05-26
Arnold, Bruce Y.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
With means to feed work intermittently from one tool station...
29564, 29 27C, 29 33P, 29712, 29809, 29822, 414222, 414225, B23Q 700, B23P 2300
Patent
active
051155532
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for feeding workpieces (37, 38) to the collet (3) of a lens lathe comprises a loading device (12) and a magazine (10) for containing a plurality of workpieces (37, 38). The magazine (10) has an opening (11) at one end through which the workpieces (37, 38) are sequentially removable. The loading device (12) is arranged to accept workpieces (37, 38) sequentially from the magazine (10) at a loading station, and to feed them to the collet (3). The loading device (12) has a pair of star wheels (16) for holding a workpiece (37, 38) removed from the magazine (10), and means (34, 35, 36) for positioning said workpiece at the loading station in a predetermined position with respect to the collet (3). The loading device (12) has piston-and-cylinder devices (20) and (23) for moving the star wheels (16) so as to carry said workpiece (37, 38) from the loading station to the collet (3).
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Morland Albert H.
Sealey Michael J.
Arnold Bruce Y.
Shafer R. D.
The Cooper Companies, Inc.
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