Device to separate rolled bars

Abstract

Device to separate rolled bars (12), the bars (12) emerging from the cooling zone and being fed by conveyor means in a direction substantially transverse to the axis of the bars (12) and displaced along a plane by movement means (14), the movement means (14) being separated lengthwise, there being included a counting device (13) to form bundles consisting of a desired and defined number of bars (12), the device comprising a plurality of separator units (15) aligned lengthwise parallel to the bars (12) and each arranged between two adjacent movement means (14), each separator unit (15) comprising at least a pair of distancing pins (16), the distancing pins (16) including a first inactive position lowered and “retracted below the plane (“x”) on which the bars (12), lie and a second active position raised and protruding with respect to the plane (“x’”) on which the bars (12) lie and inserted between two adjacent bars (12), the distancing pins (16),in the first inactive position, having a reciprocal distance, taken in the direction of feed of the bars (12), less than the reciprocal distance which they have in a second active position.

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