Solution
The bowl feeder system is designed to automatically sort and feed tubes onto a rotary table. The system comprises a bulk hopper, a tube bowl feeder, a linear Out-feed and a pneumatically operated escapement to separate and present the component parts for collection by pick & place.
Bulk Storage Hopper
The hopper is used to store and transfer component parts into the vibratory bowl feeder.
Vibratory Bowl Feeder
A vibratory sorting bowl is tooled to feed and orientate component parts before transferring them in 2 lanes to the linear out-feed; Internally lined with a white FDA approved polyurethane coating.
Linear Feeder
A Vibratory linear feeder is fitted with a twin lane tooled track approximately 600 mm in length, a high-level sensor to feed the streams of parts into the escapement.
Side Shuttle Escapement
Pneumatically operated side shuttle escapement separates & presents 2 parts for collection by pick & place.
Hopper
Vibratory Sorting Bowl
Linear Out-feed
