Solution
The bowl feeder system is designed to automatically sort and feed clips. The system comprises a clip bowl feeder, a linear feeder, and at the end of the feed system, an escapement to separate the component parts before they are individually fed for collection by robot.
Vibratory Bowl Feeder
A vibratory sorting bowl is tooled to feed and orientate component parts before transferring them in 1 stream to the linear out-feed.
Linear Feeder
A Vibratory linear feeder is fitted with a single lane tooled track approximately 600 mm in length, a high-level sensor to feed the stream of parts into the escapement.
Side Shuttle Escapement
Pneumatically operated escapement to separate & present 1 part for collection by robot.
Clip Bowl Feeder
Linear Feeder
Side Shuttle Escapement
