Workpiece feed channel
AssigneeTh. Kieserling & Albrecht
InventorAlfons Goeke
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Abstract
A workpiece feed channel interposed between a metal peeling machine and straightener for elongated, rotating or non-rotating, metal workpieces. The channel includes a plurality of opposed pairs of driven profiled elements having workpiece receiving openings therebetween of a cross-sectional size approximately 1.5 to 10 times larger than the cross-sectional size of the workpieces carried therein. The workpieces are carried by and fed forwardly by the gravitational frictional engagement with the profiled elements. In one embodiment, the upper profile elements are raised to permit the release of the workpiece down inclined surfaces, rather than for the workpiece to continue on to the straightening machine.
Claims23
A feed channel for metal peeling machines and straigntening machines for working elongated workpieces, comprising:
- an elongated workpiece feed channel associated with one of said machines and having input and output ends for carrying workpieces therethrough in a predetermined direction, a workpiece handling device positioned adjacent at least one of said ends for operating on elongated workpieces having a predetermined cross-sectional size, said feed channel including a plurality of opposed pairs of profiled elements, drive means for driving said opposed pairs of profiled elements in said predetermined direction, each said pair of opposed profiled elements defining a workpiece receiving opening therebetween having a cross-sectional size approximately 1.5 to 10 times larger than said predetermined cross-sectional size of said workpiece.
A feed channel for feeding elongated workpieces between input and output ends comprising:
- upper and lower mechanisms including upper and lower opposed pairs of profiled elements defining workpiece receiving openings therebetween, drive means for driving said elements in a predetermined direction in opposed relationship to one another for carrying workpieces received in said openings between said input and output ends, at least one of said mechanisms being movable away from the other of said mechanisms for separating said upper and lower elements for lateral movement of workpieces relative to said lower elements.
A method for feeding elongated workpieces between a metal peeling machine and a metal straightener and including a feed channel having a plurality of opposed pairs of profiled elements including workpiece receiving openings therebetween and being driven in a predetermined direction comprising the steps of:
- introducing into said openings workpieces having a cross-sectional size approximately 1.5 to 10 times smaller than the cross-sectional size of said openings, and carrying said workpieces between said openings in said predetermined direction, from said metal peeling machine to said metal straightener, by gravity frictional engagement of said workpieces with the surfaces of said openings.
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