Operation Description: The Razors are fed by a hopper to a bowl feeder for orientation all one way and passed onto a vibratory linear feeder for accumulation storage. A camera station inspects the razor blade cover for rotational accuracy on the linear feeder tracking. Out of tolerance components are blown off the linear track via an air blast from the camera reject signal. A cute with reject confirmation sensor deposits the bad components into receptacle. Components within customers set tolerance are fed onto a further linear feeder to a waiting station for the pick & place unit. A specially designed vacuum gripper picks five parts at a time and places them into the packaging machine conveyor slats.
Performance: 30 second cycle giving a bowl feeding speed of 150 parts per minute