Abstract: The invention relates to an automated method of assembling or processing components using computer numerical controlled drives to decouple the stages of delivering components to a tool, into a series of separately programmable stages, namely, a component loading stage, a component separating stage, an accelerating stage and a delivery stage, wherein the timing, position, speed, velocity, and acceleration of each component during each stage is selected through programming of the computer numerical controls.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 27, 2018
Assignee:
TRANSFORMIX ENGINEERING INC.
Inventors:
Kenneth Wayne Nicholson, Philip David Munroe, Martin George Smith, Robert David Almas
Abstract: An automated device for producing a closed part, commencing with an open part having a cap joined with a hinge to a body, the device comprising: a tool having a guide surface defined in an operating plane substantially orthogonal to a hinge axis; a part gripper disposed on a computer numerically controlled shuttle, the part gripper operable to: select an open part from a stream of identical open parts; engage one of: the cap; and the body, on a start point on the guide surface; slide the open part, within the operating plane from the start point to a finish point on the guide surface, to rotate the cap about the hinge axis from an open position to a closed position relative to the body; and release the closed part from the part gripper at a release station.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 9, 2014
Publication date:
September 15, 2016
Applicant:
TRANSFORMIX ENGINEERING INC.
Inventors:
Kenneth Wayne NICHOLSON, Philip David MUNROE, Martin George SMITH, Robert David ALMAS
Abstract: The invention relates to an automated method of assembling or processing components using computer numerical controlled drives to decouple the stages of delivering components to a tool, into a series of separately programmable stages, namely, a component loading stage, a component separating stage, an accelerating stage and a delivery stage, wherein the timing, position, speed, velocity, and acceleration of each component during each stage is selected through programming of the computer numerical controls.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 22, 2013
Publication date:
May 29, 2014
Applicant:
TRANSFORMIX ENGINEERING INC.
Inventors:
Kenneth Wayne NICHOLSON, Philip David MUNROE, Martin George SMITH, Robert David ALMAS