Patents Assigned to Seaton SSK Engineering Inc.
  • Patent number: 4639968
    Abstract: A machine for automatically blowing debris, such as sand, out of cavities within engine block and similar type castings which have side openings connected to end openings to form internal cavities. The machine has a ferris-wheel-like frame arranged to rotate around a horizontal axis. The frame is divided into a number of horizontally opening compartments, each arranged to receive and hold a single casting. A dirty casting is loaded, horizontally endwise, while the frame is momentarily stationary, into the compartment which is then located in the lowermost position. Thereafter, the frame is rotated until the next compartment is located in the lowermost position, at which point the rotation is stopped so that the clean casting in the now lowermost compartment is horizontally removed endwise and is replaced with the next dirty casting. The stop, followed by the rotation, sequence is repeated so that each casting, within each compartment, is indexably rotated around the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Seaton SSK Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth D. McKibben, Alan P. Gould, Craig J. Groh, Thomas E. Wuepper