Method and apparatus for handling bar-shaped material
AssigneeFirma Friedrich Kocks
InventorRudolf Wonisch
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for handling bar-shaped material, such as tubes, beyond a plant for manufacturing and/or machining same, comprising the steps of sub-dividing the material moving out of the plant by means of a severing device, sorting the cut lengths of material into at least two groups and feeding said sorted lengths to at least two cooling beds, conveying the cut lengths from the first cooling bed and subjecting them to substantially automatic continuous after-processing and conveying the cut lengths from the second cooling bed, after intermediate storage subjecting them at the second cooling bed to at least partially manual individual after-processing.
Claims14
A method of handling bar-shaped material, such as tubes, beyond a plant for at least one of manufacturing and machining the same, comprising the steps of sub-dividing the material moving out of the plant by means of a severing device, sorting the cut lengths of material into at least two groups, each group of generally similar character, feeding said sorted lengths to at least two spaced cooling beds, one group to each bed, conveying the cut lengths from the first cooling bed and subjecting them to substantially automatic continuous after-processing and conveying the cut lengths from the second cooling bed, after intermediate storage subjecting them at the second cooling bed to at least partially manual individual after-processing.
Apparatus for handling cut lengths of bar-shaped material discharged from a plant for manufacturing and/or machining same comprising first and second cooling beds, means for selectively separating said cut lengths into first and second groups, at least said first group having generally common characteristics different from the other group and transferring the first and second groups of cut lengths to the first and second cooling beds respectively, continuous after-processing equipment having substantially automatically operating devices and disposed to receive and process cut lengths from the first cooling bed, and individual after-processing equipment disposed to receive and process, with manual intervention, cut lengths from the second cooling bed.
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