Automatic machines
AssigneeThe Secretary of State for Industry in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
InventorsSinclair U. Cunningham, Douglas Jackson
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Abstract
An automatic machine for operating upon a work piece at a predetermined ption with respect to a pre-selected physical feature, for example an edge, of the work piece. The machine scans the work piece and transmits signals corresponding to the co-ordinates of the physical feature to a computer. The computer thereafter controls in accordance with the signals received from the scanning head the position of the operating head, so that the operating head can operate upon the work piece at the pre-determined position with respect to the pre-selected physical feature.
Claims11
An automatic machine for operating upon a work piece at a predetermined position with respect to a preselected physical feature of the work piece comprising:
- A work holder for holding a work piece,
- Scanning means including a scanning head for scanning the work piece located in the work holder and for determining with respect to a predetermined coordinate system the co-ordinates of the preselected physical feature and for producing signals representative of said co-ordinates,
- An operating head for operating upon the work piece,
- Motor means for varying the relative positions of the operating head and the work holder, and
- A computer, connected to the scanning means and to the motor means, including a store for storing the co-ordinates of the position of said preselected physical feature and means for extracting data from its store and in accordance therewith means for causing the motor means to vary the relative position of the operating head and the workholder so that the operating head operates upon the work piece at said predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.