Article dispensing – Cellular magazine type – With non-gravity means to remove articles from cells
Patent
1995-06-06
1996-12-31
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
Cellular magazine type
With non-gravity means to remove articles from cells
221211, G07F 1100
Patent
active
055885543
ABSTRACT:
A fastener feed system for selecting a fastener needed for a particular fastening location from a fastener storage area and delivering the fastener to a workpiece where the fastener is to be installed includes a tray having a floor and a grid partition arrangement defining a multiplicity of cells for holding single fasteners in a vertical orientation and a delivery tube for conveying the fasteners, selected and extracted from the tray, to a fastener inserting device for inserting the fasteners into holes in the workpiece. A suction head, attached to the proximal end of the delivery tube, contacts a top edge of the grid partition arrangement and applys suction to a selected cell to suck the fastener in the cell through the suction head and into the delivery tube. An X-Y motive device is provided for positioning the suction head over the selected cell. The motive device includes a gantry mounted on two slides, one each on each of two opposite sides of a tray holder, for movement in an "X" direction, and a slider mounted on the gantry for carrying the suction head in a "Y" direction orthogonal to the "X" direction. A control system is provided for controlling the operation of the motive device.
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Neary J. Michael
Nelson Lawrence W.
Noland Kenneth
The Boeing Company
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