B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
270/91
B65G 51/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1115741
ABSTRACT An apparatus is disclosed for separating individual assembly parts from a coherent mass of the parts and for orienting the individual assembly parts. The apparatus includes a rotary drum for storing the mass of the parts, the rotary drum including a plurality of axially extending elongated support members for the stored mass of the parts, the support members constituting the peripheral wall of the drum and the support members being peripherally spaced from each other to define slot-shaped discharge openings therebetween, the open- ings having a width permitting single ones of the parts to pass therethrough by gravity and a length permitting a plurality of the parts to pass whereby clusters of the assembly parts resolved by rotation of the drum from the coherent mass may pass through the openings by gravity. A housing of circular cross section defining a whirlpool chamber is arranged downstream of the rotary drum and has an inlet of a dimension permitting the clusters of assembly parts to be received and passed therethrough, the whirlpool chamber having an axis extending perpendicularly to the circular cross sectional plane of the housing. A transfer passageway leads from the rotary drum to the inlet of the whirlpool chamber whereby the inlet is in communication with the peripheral drum openings. Nozzle means is arranged at the inlet of the housing for directing a jet of gas into the whirlpool chamber in a direction substantially tangential to the circle defined by the housing, the tangential jet of gas creating a gaseous whirlpool in the chamber for moving and separating the clusters into individual assembly parts, and there is conveyor means remote from the inlet and arranged to receive individual ones of the assembly parts moved by the gas jet, the conveyor means being arranged to orient the individual assembly parts.
370447
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Sticht Walter
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