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US 5,601,252 AGranted
Device for feeding reels to a user machine
AssigneeG.D S.p.A.
InventorFiorenzo Draghetti
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Abstract
Reels are fed in succession to a user machine by means of a feeder device which has at least one replaceable cartridge-type magazine, in which a stem that extends from a support suitable to be placed in a specific reference position with respect to the user machine slidingly engages a plurality of reels that can be removed in succession from the stem by means of a transfer unit which is interposed between the cartridge magazine and the user machine.
Claims13
Device for feeding reels to a user machine, said device comprising in combination:
- at least one replaceable cartridge-type magazine for reels, said magazine having supporting and guiding means for a plurality of reels, said supporting and guiding means extending along an axis thereof and said reels being arrangeable on said supporting and guiding means coaxially to each other and to said axis;
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- transfer means for transferring said reels to the user machine, wherein said transfer means comprises:
- centering means for positioning said cartridge magazine in a specific reference position with respect to the user machine;
- extraction means for disengaging in succession the reels from said supporting and guiding means and for feeding said reels to the user machine;
- movement means for moving said reels along said supporting and guiding means until said reels occupy, in succession, a position in which they are engageable by said extraction means;
- and said cartridge magazine comprises a base, said base being removably coupled to said centering means, said supporting and guiding means comprising a stem that extends from a side face of said base along said axis, said stem being rigidly coupled to said base, whereby said stem is adapted to engage the reels of a stack of mutually coaxial reels.
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Device for feeding reels to a user machine, said device comprising in combination:
- at least one replaceable cartridge-type magazine for reels, said magazine having supporting and guiding means for a plurality of reels, said supporting and guiding means extending along an axis thereof and said reels being arrangeable on said supporting and guiding means coaxially to each other and to said axis;
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- transfer means for transferring said reels to the user machine, wherein said transfer means comprises:
- centering means for positioning said cartridge magazine in a specific reference position with respect to the user machine;
- extraction means for disengaging in succession the reels from said supporting and guiding means and for feeding said reels to the user machine;
- movement means for moving said reels along said supporting and guiding means until said reels occupy, in succession, a position in which they are engageable by said extraction means, said movement means comprising a lifting means for lifting said reels along said axis to said position in which they are engageable by said extraction means, said centering means comprising at least one seat defining an axis thereof and being located adjacent to said user machine, said cartridge magazine being positioned in said specific reference position with the supporting and guiding means thereof being coaxial with said seat.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.