PCB feeding appts. placing boards on conveyor - has trolley with horizontal tray from which boards are successively deposited by alternating translational movement of trolley

Abstract

Abstract rigid or flexible boards or sheets are presented in piles to an arm (16) equipped with suckers (18) moving in a vertical plane. The height of the top of the pile (P) is kept constant by a stepping motor driving a screw gear (14) working in conjunction with a photo-detector. A cam (22) governs the movement of the arm which raises an edge of the sheet whilst a horizontal plate (26) mounted on a trolley (24) is automatically moved under it by the action of a rocking arm (28) working from a rotary driVe. With a pin and template arrangement (34,36), the rocking arm conveys the sheet to a pair of feeder rollers (38) onto the supply conveyor belt (30). The process is automatic and self-repeating. The rate of sheet feeding and conveyor rocker speed are continuously variable to sink the sheet length.

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