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AssigneeTechnical Systems (Pty) Ltd
InventorsMattheus Willem Johannes Kuhn, Hendrick Willem Van Deventer, Johan Lodewikus Erasmus
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A method for the handling of coreless auger, which is produced by an auger production machine from which the coreless auger emerges with a linear motion component and a rotational motion component, includes guiding the rotating auger for linear movement away from the production machine toward a temporary storage facility that has a cylindrical receptacle rotatable about its own axis and a coaxial rotatable feed guide having an axial inlet for formed auger and an outwardly directed outlet for directing formed auger toward an inner periphery of the cylindrical receptacle. The cylindrical receptacle is rotated and the feed guide is allowed to rotate about the axis of its inlet that is roughly coincident with the axis of auger entering the axial inlet of the feed guide. The cylindrical receptacle is rotated at a speed selected to counteract the rotation of the auger about its own axis.
A method for the handling of coreless auger produced by an auger production machine from which the coreless auger emerges with a linear motion component and a rotational motion component, the method comprising the steps of:
A temporary storage facility for use in an auger production facility, the temporary storage facility comprising a frame supporting a relatively rotatable cylindrical receptacle rotatable about its own axis and a coaxial rotatable feed guide having an axial inlet for receiving auger in an axial direction and an outlet directed outwardly toward a remote end of the rotatable cylindrical receptacle, wherein the coaxial rotatable feed guide is configured to rotate about an axis of its axial inlet that is operatively roughly coincident with an axis of auger entering the axial inlet of the coaxial rotatable feed guide such that the outwardly directed outlet is rotatable about an axis of the rotatable cylindrical receptacle to operatively move around an interior of the rotatable cylindrical receptacle in a circular path to direct auger towards an inner periphery of the rotatable cylindrical receptacle and form a coil thereof, wherein the rotatable cylindrical receptacle has a drive for rotating it at a speed selected to accommodate a linear motion component of received auger and counteract the rotation of the auger about its own axis.
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