Article dispensing – With orienting
Patent
1978-07-27
1980-09-02
Tollberg, Stanley H.
Article dispensing
With orienting
198953, B65H 362
Patent
active
042202574
ABSTRACT:
A separator for springs and similar parts has a housing provided with an opening for facilitating feeding of tangled springs into the housing. A striker assembly, in the form of a disc arranged opposite the opening in the housing and provided with one or more blades, imparts energy to the tangled springs. The inner surface of the housing has a plurality of protuberances, and the like, for promoting a spinning action of springs energized by the striker assembly. Free fall of tangled springs into the path of the striker blades sets up a natural vibration or oscillation of the tangled springs that, due to the contact angle along the radius of the spring wire, drives them apart. Further, the striker blades impart a rotating motion to the tangled springs in conjunction with the traction imparted to the springs by the protuberances on the inner surface of the housing when the springs come off the striker blades. This rotating motion of the energized springs, which is on an axis parallel to, or at the center of, the radius of coils of the springs, rotates one spring out of another spring with which the coils of the one spring are wound.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1524940 (1925-02-01), Matson
patent: 3042181 (1962-07-01), Rise
patent: 3423075 (1969-01-01), Knudsen et al.
Jacobson Harvey B.
O#Brien Clarence A.
Tollberg Stanley H.
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