Distributor device

Claim 1

A DISTRIBUTOR DEVICE HAVING A FRAMEWORK AND ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED BY SAID FRAMEWORK ON A UTILIZING MACHINE FOR FEEDING INDIVIDUAL WORKPIECES THERETO, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PIVOTABLE ARM ATTACHED TO SAID FRAMEWORK, GRIPPING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID ARM FOR CONVEYING SAID WORKPIECE FROM A STORAGE POINT TO SAID MACHINE, MEANS FOR SETTING SAID MACHINE INTO ACTION WHEN SAID GRIPPING MEANS ARE IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION, A DISC ROTATABLY MOUNTED ABOUT A FULCRUM SOLID WITH SAID FRAMEWORK, A PINION INTEGRAL WITH SAID DISC, A CONTROL JACK HAVING A PISTON PROVIDED WITH A ROD SOLID WITH A RACK MESHING WITH SAID PINION, FOR IMPARTING TO SAID DISC AN OSCILLATORY MOVEMENT ABOUT SAID FULCRUM, A TELESCOPIC CONNECTING ROD INCLUDING RESILIENT RETURN MEANS AND CRANKPINS ON BOTH ENDS THEREOF, SAID CRANK-PINS CO-OPERATING WITH SAID DISC TO OSCILLATE SAID ARM A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE, A PAIR OF ADJUSTABLE STOPS, DEFINING THE EXTREME POSITIONS OF SAID ARM IN SAID HORIZONTAL PLANE, CAM MEANS PROVIDED AT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID DISC, A LEVER ACTED UPON BY SAID CAM MEANS AT ONE OF ITS ENDS TO BEAR BY AN ADJUSTABLE SCREW PROVIDED AT ITS OTHER END ON A MOBILE PART CARRYING SAID ARM TO CONTROL THE VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS OF SAID MOBILE PART EFFECTED AROUND A SPINDLE CARRIED BY A BASIC PART INTEGRAL WITH SAID FRAMEWORK, A SPRING PLACED BETWEEN SAID MOBILE PART AND SAID BASIC PART FOR OPPOSING THE DISPLACEMENT OF ONE TOWARD THE OTHER AND REPELLING SAID MOBILE PART WHEN THE ACTION OF SAID SCREW CEASES, FLUID PRESSURE MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID JACK BY MEANS OF A FLUID, SAID JACK BEING FLANKED ON ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS BY TWO CYLINDRICAL PART CO-OPERATING WITH BORES MADE IN THE RESPECTIVE HEADS OF SAID JACK FOR LIMITING THE EXHAUST SECTION OFFERED TO SAID FLUID AND CONSEQUENTLY BRAKING SAID PISTION AT THE END OF ITS STROKE, CAM MEANS ON SAID ARM, A FLUID ACTUATOR FORMING PART OF SAID MEANS FOR SETTING THE MACHINE INTO ACTION AND ADAPTED TO CONTROL THE CLUTCHING AND DECLUTCHING OF THE MACHINE AND A SLIDE-VALVE ACTUATED BY SAID CAM MEANS AND CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF SAID FLUID ACTUATOR.