Conveying device for elongated articles such as needle blanks for sewing machines

Abstract

Abstract 1. A mechanism for the conveyance of workpieces (6) in the form of rods, in particular blanks for sewing-machine needles, along a workpiece processing line, in which the workpieces (6) are arranged to lie with a close fit in the threads (14, 15) of a number of conveyor spindles (7, 8, 12, 13) extending along the length of the path of conveyance and get handed on from spindle to spindle in the direction of the path of conveyance in such a way that the workpieces (6) along one portion of the path of conveyance engage by their middle section and along another portion of the path of conveyance engage by their end sections in threads (14, 15), characterized in that the end portions of the conveyor spindles (7, 8, 12, 13) which are equipped in the middle region with portions of thread (14', 15') having zero pitch, run overlapping one another in such a way that each workpiece (6) during conveyance in the range of overlap is carried by thread both through engagement of its middle region and through engagement of its end regions.

Inventors

• 👤 Klaus Pavel
• 👤 Horst Lange

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