Method for rotating an elongated body
AssigneePip Innovations B.V.
InventorBart KROEF
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Abstract
A method for rotating a cuboid or prismatic-shaped elongated body includes the steps of providing the elongated body on an inclined alignment lane, the alignment lane having a non-symmetric transition of cross section shape between V-shape and U-shape, sliding the elongated body down the alignment lane in an alignment direction, and rotating the elongated body in a helical while sliding down the alignment lane, the helical movement induced by the transmission of cross section shape.
Claims9
Method for rotating a cuboid or prismatic-shaped elongated body comprising the steps of
- providing the elongated body on an inclined alignment lane, the alignment lane comprising a non-symmetric transition of cross section shape between V-shape and U-shape
- sliding the elongated body down the alignment lane in an alignment direction,
- rotating the elongated body in a helical movement while sliding down the alignment lane, the helical movement induced by the transmission of cross section shape.
An apparatus for selectively cutting a cuboid- or prism-shaped elongated body comprising
- at least one piece of material comprising an indentation in an alignment direction as an alignment lane, which alignment lane comprises at least one slot in the alignment lane in an angle to the alignment direction,
- at least one means for optical detection,
- at least one electronic circuit-based control device,
- at least one movable knife mounted shifted from the means for optical detection in the alignment direction, mounted in an angle to the alignment direction and mounted in such a way that it can move within the slot in the alignment lane,
- wherein the alignment lane comprises a non-symmetric transition between V-shape and U-shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.