Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Signalling – indicating – or display means
Patent
1983-08-12
1986-06-24
Scherbel, David A.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Signalling, indicating, or display means
209551, 364552, 364579, B07C 500, G05B 2302
Patent
active
045963312
ABSTRACT:
An installation for assembly-line manufacture in which workpieces move in a row along a production path at a generally uniform spacing. A feed unit holds a supply of workpieces and places them one at a time in a predetermined position in the seats of an input rotary feed conveyor. An inspecting unit defines a portion of the continuous production path for the workpieces and inspects the workpieces as they pass therealong. The inspecting unit itself includes an intake rotary conveyor cooperating with the feed conveyor, an output rotary conveyor, and at least one inspecting carousel between the intake and output conveyors. A controller supervises and coordinates the operation of the other units on the workpieces as same move along the production path. A calibrating unit serves to periodically create gaps in the production line upstream of the inspecting carousel, insert a minimum-size gage piece into one of the gaps and a maximum-size gage piece into another gap at a location upstream of the inspecting carousel, measuring the sizes of the gage pieces on the inspecting carousel, and establishing from the measured sizes of the gage pieces, new maximum- and minimum-size limits. A rejecting unit along the production path downstream of the inspecting carousel removes from the path workpieces whose sizes lie outside the range of the size limits established based on the gage-piece sizes.
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Edelbruck Pierre
Marmonier Regis
Melzac Georges
Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, S.A., "MANURHIN"
Scherbel David A.
Wacyra Edward M.
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