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US 2006/0051185 A1Published application
Method and device for feeding reels to a machine
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A device (2) for feeding reels (3) has a manipulator (14) having a gripping member (19) for picking up one reel (3) at a time off a pallet (16) and transferring the reel (3) to an unwinding pin (4a; 4b) on a machine (1); the gripping member (19) is enabled to pick up a reel (3) off the pallet (16) when at least one reference point (k1) of the gripping member (19) lies inside a central hole (7) of the reel (3).
Claims22
A method of feeding reels to a machine from a store (16) of reels (3) close to said machine (1);
- each reel (3) having an axis (5), an central hole (7) which is engaged by an unwinding pin (4a;
- 4b) on said machine (1), and two flat faces (9) perpendicular to said axis (5);
- and the method being characterized by determining whether at least one reference point (K1) of a gripping member (19) of a manipulator (14) lies inside the hole (7) of a reel (3) in the store (16);
- picking up said reel (3) by means of the gripping member (19) when the reference point (K1) lies inside the hole (7) of said reel (3);
- and transferring said reel (3) from said gripping member (19) to said unwinding pin (4a;
- 4b).
3 more elements
A device for feeding reels to a machine from a store (16) of reels (3) close to said machine (1);
- each reel (3) having an axis (5), a central hole (7) which is engaged by an unwinding pin (4a;
- 4b) on said machine (1), the device being characterized by comprising a manipulator (14) having a gripping member (19) for picking up a reel (3) from said store (16) when at least one reference point (K1) of the gripping member (19) lies inside the hole (7) of said reel (3).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.