Apparatus for performing in-feed of working member to working station

Apparatus for performing the in-feed of a working member to a working station, comprising a sliding plate;

• a support element for receiving the working member and arranged on the sliding plate;
• at least two electromotive drives operatively connected to said support element to adjust the support element in X and Y direction along two axes of coordinates oriented substantially at right angles to one another in a plane, with respect to the sliding plate, said support element being operatively connected with a moving part of a respective drive and being movable by said drives over a sliding bearing associated with the sliding plate in a single given horizontal plane with a translational degree of freedom, said support element being arranged in substantially freely floating manner on said sliding plate, wherein each of the electromotive drives has a stator body which has a E-shaped profile cross-section with spaced flanges provided on an inside with magnetic bodies, and a bobbin provided between the flanges in corresponding recesses and which is freely movable in a plane, and is operatively connected to the support member, and, upon corresponding direct current excitation thereof, is operated in such a way that the bobbin which embraces a central flange of the stator body constituting a pole is movable together with the support member in a first direction oriented in accordance with an axis of the bobbin and in a second direction substantially at right angles to said first direction.

Apparatus for performing the in-feed of a working member to a working station, comprising a sliding plate;

• a support element for receiving the working member and arranged on the sliding plate;
• at least two drives operatively connected to said support element to adjust the support element in X and Y direction along two axes of coordinates oriented substantially at right angles to one another in a plane, with respect to the sliding plate, said support element being operatively connected with a moving part of a respective drive and being movable by said drives over a sliding bearing associated with the sliding plate in a single given horizontal plane with a translational degree of freedom, said support element being arranged in substantially freely floating manner on said sliding plate, wherein
• a) each drive comprises a fixed stator body arranged on a base plate and having two horizontal spaced apart slots, a bobbin, and a support member arranged on the support element and said slots serving to receive said bobbin operatively connected to the stator body, and
• b) the bobbin with the support member, when said bobbin is excited by direct current, are movable relative to the stator body in a first direction (X) and at right angles thereto in a second direction (Y).