Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
Patent
1993-02-02
1993-12-07
Skaggs, H. Grant
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
198953, 221200, 221167, B65G 2700
Patent
active
052676390
ABSTRACT:
A device for continuously feeding kick springs. It has a bowl adapted to be vibrated in a circumferential direction and provided in its inner peripheral surface with a spiral track. An arcuate guide is connected to the top end of the track. A vibration feeder is provided to bring one of two bent pieces at both ends of each kick spring into engagement with an inner edge of the arcuate guide and to feed the kick springs continuously while keeping their attitude substantially horizontal. A chute has one side thereof connected continuously to the inner edge of the guide for feeding the kick springs in one direction keeping one of the two bent pieces of each kick spring facing one side of the chute. The chute is provided on the top surface thereof with a guide surface for guiding one of kick legs of each kick spring and a guide groove for receiving a coiled portion and the other kick leg. A presser plate is provided over the chute and provided on the bottom surface thereof with a protrusion received in the guide groove for guiding the coiled portions in cooperation with one side of the guide groove. The protrusion is provided on the bottom surface thereof with an insert groove for receiving the other bent piece.
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patent: 4739873 (1988-04-01), Yajima
Kitano Shoji Kabushiki Kaisha
Skaggs H. Grant
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