Today I'm proposing a technical problem to our friends the designers in technical design^^
This concerns the transfer of product between two conveyors: one exiting horizontally, the other perpendicular and sloping 15°.
I enclose a sketch that will be worth a long speech:p
I want to transfer cups laid in bulk (but never on top of each other) on the first horizontal mat to the second perpendicular mat, lower and with a slope of 15°. The cups should be spread over the second mat. Not necessarily on a regular basis but as much as possible. To spice things up... ideally without any mechanical actuator (opt for our friend gravity!) Here. I'll let you think and remain available for your questions.
The carpets are 570 wide. The cups Ø10cm thick 2cm of qlq gram.
On the first mat (the top one): the cups are randomly distributed.
On the second mat (the "slope"): The cups just need to be distributed. Not on top of each other. They can touch each other. They will then be sorted and put away in batches.
@FLOP1: I have the same approach. The problem is that all the cups are on the same side... I think there is a "trick" to be exploited in this way. The cups are made of plastic. No worries about fragility.
No better ideas than @franck.ceroux ... On the other hand, don't forget to make a kind of funnel at each path entrance so that a cup doesn't get stuck against a "pillar" (the space between two entrances)
+1 coin37coin you need funnels at the entrance, you can also force the distribution on the mat if the pieces have enough grip and you can eliminate the risk of it overlapping. When a cup passes through a path, it rotates a guide Y which closes this path and directs towards the next one. At the moment when a cup passes through the second path, it reopens the first and closes the second, etc
@franck.ceroux, I'm a little afraid that you'll complicate the thing for not much with the risk of seizure and other impromptu anomalies (that said, for the creative side, I recognize that it's great)
@Frederic, simple and effective ^^. You just have to be careful that the cups don't get on their backs at the finish with the speed. (with Franck.Ceroux's solution, it's overdone and/or with a gentler slope
On the top conveyor, I would put two for three combs before the funnels. Let me explain: perpendicular to the mat, a plate on which pins spaced the width of the cups + X are welded. The first flat with like two or three axes, it allows you to guide and separate the cups from each other, then another flat but with 4 or 5 axes to refine the guidance and a last one to place everything well:
To have made a conveyor for optical lenses, upstream of the slope it is necessary to place vertical rods that will allow the cups to be pre-oriented
in stages by 2 rods by 4 and number of entries of the slide.
The material for the slide? I use nilatron, it works very well and you can give quite complex shapes. it doesn't leave a trace on the products and it slides just enough
A big thank you to all for your interest in finding technical solutions!!!! With my team, we opted for a 'slide' in 304L stainless steel sheet (food required) shaped thanks to Logitrace. We will then do tests without separators. Then with (I doubt it can work without it).
@Gerald and @pierre.marie.ferry your ideas are very ingenious!!! I don't use them in my current application but they are carefully noted:p
And thanks again to franck.ceroux who gave the best answer:) I also note Frédéric 's solution, which cannot be ruled out.
Thank you all and the Lynkoa platform;)
(PS: I'm trying to keep you up to date with the progress with photos here!)
