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US 6,176,165 B1Granted
Device for feeding pieces of strip material to a picking station
AssigneeHerblitz Modular Systems S.r.l.
InventorRobert L. Dotey
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Abstract
Device (1) for feeding pieces of strip material (P) to a picking station (6), including a strip feeding unit (3), a cutting unit (4), and a conveying group (5) of the pieces of strip (P) comprising a duct (13b) extending between the cutting unit (4) and the picking station (6), a system for generating a pneumatic conveying flow (21, 22) in the duct (13b), and a pneumatic braking device (32, 33, 34) of the pieces of strip (P) during their movement produced by the pneumatic conveying flow.
Claims12
Device (1) for feeding pieces of strip material (P) to a picking station (6), comprising:
- strip feeding means (3);
- a cutting unit (4) fed by said feeding means (3) for cutting the strip (P) crosswise into pieces of preestablished length;
- conveying means (5) for transferring said pieces of strip (P) from the cutting unit (4) to said picking station (6);
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- synchronized actuating means for actuating the feeding means (3), the cutting unit (4) and the conveying means (5), wherein said conveying means (5) include a duct (13b) extending between the cutting unit (4) and the picking station (6), means for generating in said duct (13b) a pneumatic flow (21, 22) for the conveying of each piece of strip (P), and a device (32, 33, 34) for pneumatic braking of the piece of strip (P) during movement of the piece of strip produced by said pneumatic conveying flow.
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