Abstract: A slide fastener is made from a workpiece formed of a pair of longitudinally extending parallel tapes having confronting edges provided with longitudinally extending and transversely couplable coupling elements. This workpiece is passed along a treatment path through a gapping station, a bottom-stop installing station, a slider-mounting station, a top-stop installing station, and a cutting station. The elements are removed from the tapes at gaps spaced longitudinally of the workpiece in the gapping station and a bottom stop is fitted to the elements at one end of each of the gaps in the bottom-stop installing station. A slider is mounted on the elements at the slider-mounting station between each gap and the following gap and a top stop is fitted to the elements in the top-stop installing station at each gap. Finally the tapes of the workpiece are transversely cut at the gaps at the cutting station into individual slide fasteners.

Abstract: A terminal dereeling apparatus is provided for permitting efficient feeding of terminals into a terminating press. The terminal dereeling apparatus includes a terminal reel mount for permitting the unwinding of a terminal reel with substantially uniform tension throughout the unwinding. A take-up reel is provided in proximity to the terminal reel for efficiently winding the interleaf material disposed between adjacent layers of the terminal strip wound onto the terminal reel. A sensing apparatus, such as a photo-optical sensor is provided in spaced relationship to the terminating press for monitoring the feeding of terminals on the strip of terminals into the terminating press. The sensing apparatus is operative to interrupt the terminating process in response to a variation of the terminal feeding from a specified terminal feeding sequence.

Abstract: An automatic wheel attachment apparatus for attaching a wheel to a wheel attachment member of an automotive body. The automatic wheel attachment apparatus includes a reorienting device for reorienting a wheel attachment surface of the wheel attachment member, a phasing device for phasing wheel attachment bolts on the wheel attachment member, the phasing device being movable longitudinally and vertically of the automotive body to bring the wheel attachment member and the phasing device into central alignment with each other, a detecting device for detecting the amount and direction of movement of the phasing device, and a nut runner for fastening the wheel to the wheel attachment member while the center of the wheel attachment member as detected by the detecting device is being held in alignment with the center of the wheel. At least the reorienting device, the phasing device, and the detecting device are combined in a single robot.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting and demounting a lid of a vessel on and from a body thereof. The lid and the body are fastened to each other by a plurality of stud bolt and nut assemblies. A turntable is supported on a sling to be fixed to the lid, for turning movement in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis passing through a center of the lid. A plurality of operating units are supported by the turntable and are arranged in circumferentially spaced relation on a circle having a diameter equal to that of a pitch circle of the stud bolts. Each of the operating units includes a device for transporting the nuts to and from the stud bolts, and a device for attaching and detaching the stud bolts to and from an end flange of the body of the vessel. A positioning arrangement is provided for moving the turntable in the horizontal plane relatively to the sling so as to bring the operating units into vertical alignment with the stud bolts.

Abstract: A bearing is automatically installed on an engine component of a internal combustion engine, such as a connecting rod, a crankshaft, a cylinder block, or the like. Data indicated on the engine component and identifying the engine component is read and stored. A bearing which matches the engine component is selected from a bearing stocker based on the stored data. The selected bearing is then transferred to an installing robot which installs the bearing on the engine component.

Abstract: A tube magazine component feeder is disclosed. The component feeder is reconfigurable to accommodate different tube magazine sizes and different component configurations. The component feeder includes a pair of upright masts for supporting loaded tube magazines in a stacked upright manner. The spatial separation of the two masts is adjustable to accommodate different tube magazine lengths. Other elements of the component feeder are adjustable or replaceable so as to quickly and easily adapt the device to a different tube magazine size or different component configuration.

Abstract: The electronic component retrieval and insertion apparatus for printed circuit boards is a tactile and displacement monitoring device for the retrieval from a source and insertion of electronic components into a through-hole PCB utilizing force and displacement sensors on extendable fingers adjustable for a multitude of shapes such that excessive force to the component and PCB can be avoided and the final position of the inserted component can be checked to verify proper seating.

Abstract: An improved lead insertion apparatus for randomly inserting crimped wire leads one at a time into a multicircuit connector includes a pair of elongate insertion jaws for longitudinally surrounding and gripping a crimp terminated wire lead. The insertion jaws are actuable by a gripper control between a first open position, a second intermediate gripping position wherein the jaws are axially slideable along the gripped wire lead and a third closed position wherein the jaws firmly grip the lead in a non-slideable manner. The jaws and their gripper control are mounted for axial movement along the wire lead into the insertion station. A drive for the jaws moves the jaws in their intermediate wire gripping position along the wire segment until a proximity sensor senses the tips of the jaws abutting the rear end of the crimp terminal. In response to the sensor the gripper control changes the jaws to their closed position on the wire prior to insertion.

Abstract: An arrangement for unloading and loading of x-ray sheet film cassettes of standardized but different sizes of their flat sides which also can be used for receiving different sheet film sorts and reloadable with respective sheet film sorts, comprises a light-tight closeable shaft for receiving a cassette, transporting unit for inserting and withdrawing of the cassettes, unit for positioning the cassette at a cassette corner which is the same for all cassettes, a mechanically-electronic comparison device for determining the format of a cassette, an opening device for the cassette, unit for withdrawing a film and inserting of a new film into the cassette, and unit for automatically distinguishing of cassette types with the same sizes or size regions and loadable with different film sorts and including at least one outwardly sensible marking provided on the cassettes of at least one type, at least one sensor arranged to sense the marking with a positioned cassette, and a comparison device which is connected for t

Abstract: A device for locating a datum reference on a partially assembled structural object, such as an automobile body frame. The device has a base structure for rigid mounting to a floor member, a transfer platform is attached to the base structure so that the transfer platform has freedom of movement in a first horizontal direction, a support structure is attached to the transfer platform so that it has freedom of movement therewith in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a vertical slide support mechanism attached to the support structure and movable therewith in a vertical direction, fluid activated stop members for locking the horizontal and vertical movements of the device when a certain location in space, as dictated by the automobile body, has been attained. A work performing tool attached to the vertical slide support mechanism so that the tool can move into and out of engagement with the automobile body.

Abstract: A conveying device for testing and reprocessing objects (25) processed by a processing station (27), especially labelled objects (25), as for example ampoules, containers or syringes. A conveyor device conveys objects (25) to be processed in a continual, uniform motion through the processing station (27). The objects (25) are held therein in pickups (23). A feeding device (33) leads the objects individually toward the conveying device (21). A checking station (31) examines the processing result. A control stops, in case of determining an insufficiently processed, for example not labelled objects (25b), the feeding device (33) and gradually brakes the conveying device (21). The control then reverses the direction of movement of the conveying device (21) until the insufficiently processed object (21b) has reached again the processing station (27).

Abstract: A cassette pulley is assembled from a flange part having three assembly pins which are received in corresponding holes of a hub part. The hub part has a number of reinforcing ribs which divide the bottom of the hub part into a number of recesses which are conveniently employed to hold the hub part on a group of hub holding stub shafts during assembly. Because there are more recesses than holding stub shafts, the hub may assume more than one orientation relative to the stub shafts. In order to achieve proper relative orientation of hub and flange, the hub holder is formed with a hole that is aligned with one of the hub holes when the hub is in one of a selected group of orientations. Optical sensing of such alignment enables the flange to be positioned in an orientation appropriate for assembly of the flange pins into the hub holes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for mounting an electronic part (11) on a circuit board (28). When the part is mounted, a distance between the under surface of a part maintaining section (12) and the circuit board (38) is measured. Determination that the electronic part (11) is normally mounted on the circuit board (28) is made by comparing the measured distance with the thickness of the electronic part (11) measured in advance.

Abstract: A windowpane mounting system for mounting a windowpane on a vehicle body comprises a vehicle body conveyor for intermittently feeding the vehicle body, and a windowpane mounting robot for mounting a windowpane on the vehicle body at a windowpane mounting station. The windowpane mounting robot is arranged to be movable between a first mounting position for mounting one of the windowpanes for the windshield and the rear window and a second mounting position for mounting the other windowpane, the first mounting position being further than the second mounting position from a windowpane supply station at which the windowpane mounting robot receives the windowpanes, and is arranged to perform a mounting operation at the first mounting position in response to the feeding of the vehicle body to said windowpane mounting station by the vehicle body conveyor.

Abstract: A lock plates inserting machine and a method of automatically and mechanically inserting a plurality of lock plates into corresponding openings defined in the key cylinder. The lock plates inserting machine includes a key holder having a plurality of grooves corresponding to respective serrations of a key to be inserted. At least one key serrations detecting member having a key serrations detecting convex portion is inserted into one of the grooves of the key holder. At least one slide member is slidable upon pivotal movement of the key serrations detecting member and upon concave portions equal in number to the different sizes of the key serrations. A plurality of first push members corresponding to respective concave portions of the slide member are positioned so that a proper one of the first push members is inserted into its corresponding concave portion of the slide member in accordance with the slide members's position.

Abstract: Apparatus for opening compressed bales of fiber includes means for supporting one or more of said compressed bales of fiber in a row. A reciprocating tower is provided and supported for reciprocating alongside the row of said bales of fiber and has a cantilevered portion which extends over the row of bales of fiber at a height which is adjustable. Reducing means is supported by the cantilevered portion over the top surface of the bales for removing fiber therefrom. A horizontal channel is disposed adjacent to and above the reducing means for receiving fiber removed from the bale by the reducing means. The horizontal channel is connected to a telescoping vertical channel within the tower means for delivering fiber from the reducing means to the discharge channel in the tower when a suction force is created therein.

Abstract: An assembly device for assembling a member having plural and spaced end segments thereon to a workpiece having plural and spaced sets of end segment receiving openings thereon, the spacing between the end segment receiving openings in each set corresponding to the spacing of the end segments from each other. The assembly device includes a frame on which is mounted a transport device for transporting the member from a supply thereof to a workpiece mounted on a workpiece holder. The member is oriented so that the end segments thereon are vertically aligned with the end segment receiving openings on the workpiece to facilitate an insertion of the end segments into the end segment receiving openings upon a movement of the transport structure into a working zone. Thereafter, the member is released by the transport mechanism to enable the transport mechanism to return back to its initial position thereof to await the receipt of a new member therein.

Abstract: A cable core self-aligning apparatus comprises core feeding means for holding a plurality of cores, drawn out of an end of a cable, in a line and sequentially feeding the cores; rotational conveyor means having a conveying rotor for holding and rotationally conveying each of the cores to a core extracting position; and core identifying means for identifying the number of each core while that core is being conveyed to the core extracting position by the rotational conveyor means.

Abstract: Elongated thin strip stock is blanked to form interlocking laminas for electric motor or generator rotors or stators at successive blanking stations. At a final assembly station the laminas are stacked and pressed into interlocking relationship. In response to an operator input a predetermined number of reversals, or half turns about the stack axis of the previously stacked lamina are provided in order to compensate for nonuniform strip thickness to obtain a rotor or stator of substantially uniform height. Alternatively the thickness of the strip stock is gauged at transversely spaced points on the strip to determine cross feed thickness variation in the strip whereupon the stacked laminas are automatically provided with a number of reversals about the stack axis in response to a thickness differential that would result in a parallelism error in the stack that exceeds a predetermined amount.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant for the automated mounting of a door or similar closure component within the relative opening formed in a body, particularly an automotive vehicle body, comprising in combination: a device (10) for stably supporting a body (11), a conveyor device (33) adapted to convey a door (14) to an approach position to the relative door opening (15) in the body (11), provision being made between the said device (10, 33) for a first movable apparatus (12) for reading the measurements of the opening (15) and a second movable apparatus (13) for removing the door (14) from the conveyor (33) and positioning it within the door opening (15). The apparatus (12, 13) are also operatively interconnected through the intermediary of a computer (31) adapted to accept signals from the apparatus (12), to process them and send them to the apparatus (13).

Abstract: A weighty object mounting system includes a mounting table provided in a mounting station established in an assembly line for supporting a weighty object placed thereon to be mounted on a transportable object transported into the mounting station, a lifting device for lifting the mounting table to move the weighty object thereon into a mounting position provided on the transportable object, a position adjusting device for shifting the position of the mounting table so as to compensate for misalignments arising between the transportable object and the weighty object, a mounting table releasing device operative to cause the position adjusting device to make the mounting table movable in a plane along the direction of transportation of the transportable object in the mounting station, and a positioning device attached to the mounting table and having a tapered portion provided for engaging with a receiving portion provided on the transportable object when the mounting table ascends.

Abstract: A dispenser is provided to dispense laminations to a forward position whereat they may readily be manually grasped for withdrawal from a dispenser and insertion into a preformed coil. One or more laminations may be dispensed in a selected group of laminations so that this entire selected group may be withdrawn at one time and need not be separately manipulated to align those laminations before they can be inserted into the coil. When the laminations are withdrawn from the forward dispensing position, a proximity sensor senses the absence of such laminations and controls an actuator to transversely move laminations from the bottom of the stack of laminations in the dispenser to the forward position, ready to be withdrawn by the operator, and then the actuator withdraws to the rearward position. Abutment means are axially adjustable to select one, two or more laminations in the selected group of laminations being dispensed to the forward position.

Abstract: A weighty object mounting system comprises tact-transporting means for transporting a transportable object so as to have the same stop temporarily at each working stations, position detecting means for detecting a stop position of the transportable object stopped at one of the stations, a lifter provided in a mounting station and including a mounting portion provided for supporting a weighty object placed thereon and arranged to be movable forward and backward, right and left, and up and down in relation to the transportable object in the mounting station and a driving portion for moving the mounting portion so as to cause the weighty object to engage with the transportable object and to be automatically mounted to the same, and control means operative to supply the driving portion with control commands which direct the driving portion to cause the mounting portion to have each of predetermined movements at a predetermined timing, and operative also to calculate a misalignment between the transportable object

Abstract: A parts mounting apparatus has a plurality of suction nozzles for picking up and holding the parts, the nozzles intermittently moving along a closed path to stop positions arranged at predetermined set intervals along the path, including a parts pickup position at which parts are picked up by the suction nozzles and a parts mounting position at which parts are mounted on an article on which parts are to be mounted. A position adjusting device is provided between the parts pickup positions and the parts mounting position for adjusting the position of a part held on a suction nozzle to orient the part relative to the longitudinal axis of the suction nozzle in two directions at right angles to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle.

Abstract: An air gage assembly for testing for the presence of threads in holes in a workpiece or for the presence of the holes per se. The assembly includes a hollow housing open at one end and closed at the other end; an elongated probe assembly; means pivotally mounting the probe assembly in the housing in a location intermediate the ends of the probe assembly with one free end of the probe assembly positioned within the hollow of the housing and the other free end positioned outside of the housing; means for supplying air to the hollow of the housing; and means for passing the air centrally through the probe assembly for discharge through the other free end of the probe assembly and against the threaded or unthreaded wall of the hole to be tested.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling speed lacers on sheets, such as the lacing strips of boots, wherein the speed lacers are of generally U-shaped configuration and each comprises an arch-shaped end portion and a pair of spaced legs which extend therefrom terminating in apertures clamping discs. The apparatus comprises an assembly unit comprising a movable die assembly, a stationery die assembly, a punch assembly, a feed finger, a feed block, and a positioning pin. During operation of the apparatus in accordance with the method, a speed lacer is advanced through a channel in the feed block with the feed finger and received on the positioning pin adjacent the forward end of the channel, and the clamping discs of the speed lacer are engaged by dies of the die assemblies to deform the speed lacer to a clamping position wherein the clamping discs thereof clampingly engage the sheet.

Abstract: An assembly device for assembling a member having plural and spaced end segments thereon to a workpiece having plural and spaced sets of end segment receiving openings thereon, the spacing between the end segment receiving openings in each set corresponding to the spacing of the end segments from each other. The assembly device includes a frame on which is mounted a transport device for transporting the member from the supply thereof to a workpiece mounted on a workpiece holder. The member is oriented so that the end segments thereon are vertically aligned with the end segment receiving openings on the workpiece to facilitate an insertion of the end segments into the end segment receiving openings upon a movement of the transport structure into a working zone. Thereafter, the member is released by the transport mechanism to enable the transport mehanism to return back to its initial position thereof to await the receipt of a new member therein.

Abstract: A working/assembling system including a dosed loop endless track, moving units adapted to travel on the endless track, at least one robot supported on one of the moving units for a working or assembling operation, and a control unit mounted on the other moving unit connected to the one moving unit having stored therein operations to be performed by the robot and causing the robot to perform the operations. The robot moves on the moving units as the latter travel on the endless track, and performs the operations for working on workpieces or assembling parts as it is controlled by the control unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for moving and positioning a tool for plugging a defective heat exchanger tube of a steam generator in a nuclear reactor includes a base, a plug magazine supported on the base, a guidance mechanism mounting the plugging tool and a positioning mechanism supported on the base and mounting the guidance mechanism. The guidance mechanism is operable to align and position the tool relative to the plug magazine and the defective heat exchanger tube to correspondingly effect, upon operation of the tool, plug loading when the tool is located in a plug dispensing position adjacent to the plug magazine and plug unloading when the tool is located in a plug applying position adjacent to the defective tube. The positioning mechanism is operable to assume folded and unfolded conditions to transfer the guidance mechanism and the plugging tool therewith respectively between the plug dispensing and applying positions.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the automatic assembly of nuclear fuel rod bundles in a predetermined coordinate array. Each fuel rod is identified during its travel and positioned according to an identifying code carried on its lower end plug which designates the fuel enrichment and additive level of the rod.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the removal and also to the replacement of a beam end connection assembly in a walking beam. A walking beam comprises a beam hanger axle bracket and also an equalizer beam. The beam end connection assembly comprises an inner tube and a rubber bushing. The inner tube is positioned in the beam hanger axle bracket and also in the equalizer beam. The rubber bushing is between the inner tube and the equalizer beam. The rubber bushing and the inner tube are severed, preferably, simultaneously. Then, the remnants of the inner tube and the rubber bushing can be removed from the beam hanger axle bracket and the equalizer beam. Then, it is possible to install a new beam hanger connection assembly in the beam hanger axle bracket and the equalizer beam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the automatic assembly of electronic components and, in particular, relates to a programmable substrate transport mechanism for conveying variously sized substrates to a robotic electronic component assembly machine.

Abstract: During treatment of a specimen (10) in an evacuated chamber, the temperature of the specimen is controlled by varying the radiant heat flux to and from the specimen. The specimen is supported adjacent to but spaced apart from a heat sink (14) with a blackened surface (16), and between the specimen (10) and the heat sink (14) are one or more reflective elements (20) movable so as to cover a larger or a smaller fraction of the surface of the heat sink.

Abstract: An improved anvil for supporting a printed circuit board during insertion of a terminal through the board.

Abstract: A component is centered and oriented on a pick and place head by positive closing of pivotal fingers onto the component which is supported on a vacuum tube, and subsequent placement pressure is sensed and controlled. Rapid automated changing of component-engaging tips of the centering fingers is also provided.

Abstract: Required preloading of a valve closing spring (80) in a pressure operated, fluid handling device (10) is determined by mechanically precompressing the spring, applying operating pressure to the device and relieving the bias on the spring until the operating pressure opens the valve, the thickness of a shim (75) for effecting such preloading being equal to the difference between the change in spring length due to the precompression thereof and the change in spring length due to relief of the precompression prior to spring opening.

Abstract: An apparatus including a set jig for setting and positioning a door into a door opening portion of a vehicle body which jig is movable to advance and retreat in the direction of the door opening portion and movable in the vehicle length and height directions from a predetermined original point position (corresponding to a normal set position of the door opening) and a position detecting mechanism for detecting deviation in position of the door opening from the normal set position and for adjusting the alignment of the set jig in accordance with the deviation to have it correspond with the actual position of the door opening portion prior to the set jig advancing to set the door.

Abstract: A method of mounting parts to both sides of a main body characterized by moving a carriage at a predetermined speed along a specified path of transport with the main body placed on the carriage; moving a pair of movable tables in synchronism with the carriage in the same direction as the movement thereof, the movable tables being disposed at opposite sides of the transport path and each carrying at least one robot and an assembling device; causing the movable tables to support the main body during the synchronized movement; setting a part held by the robot in a specified position on the main body; attaching the part to the main body by the assembling device; and thereafter delivering the main body from the movable tables onto the carriage. Since the carriage is moved during the assembly of parts, this method assures the assembly line of a high-speed operation.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein an apparatus for unloading IC packages from sockets on a burn-in board according to predetermined performance grades. The IC packages are displaced from the sockets by inserting tools through passageways extending through the burn-in board and socket to contact the underside of the IC package and push the IC package from its socket. Sorting is accomplished by collecting the displaced IC packages of a particular grade and storing them separate from all other IC packages.

Abstract: A method for axially aligning adjacent opposing faces of a first and second shaft segment having a respective joint face, of a steam turbine rotor to be welded together includes mating the joint faces of each shaft segment, placing a crushable lip, which axially extends from one of the joint faces, under an axially compressive force, and supporting the joined shaft segments at their axially outboard ends. An apparatus for axially aligning opposing end faces of a first and second shaft segment to be welded together, the first and second shaft segments including a respective joint face, comprises an adjustable support for raising and lowering the joined shaft segments thereby changing the axial distance across the annular groove defined by adjacent opposing end faces to be welded. Means for measuring the force at the adjustable support, provides an indication of the weight counteracted by the support when optimum axial alignment of the shaft segments is achieved.

Abstract: A manipulating unit is disclosed comprising a housing (5) in which there are (a) position sensing means (7, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) for sensing the position of a member in the housing, which member is coupled locally to gripping means, and (b) actuating means (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) coupled to the sensing means and the member for producing movements of the member within the housing.

Abstract: An electrical component placement head control for automatically spacing the component inserter of the head from a printed circuit board comprising of a stop limiting downward movement of the head that coacts with a control shaft having an eccentric cam surface controlling the position of the stop.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatically successively inserting a plurality of U-shaped heat transfer tubes into holes of support members of an equipment such as a heat exchanger. The system has fixing means for removably fixing the support members such that the corresponding holes of the support members are axially aligned; gripping means adapted to pick up one of the heat transfer tubes and movable to bring the heat transfer tube toward the holes of supporting members; a positioning means disposed between the gripping means and the fixing means and adapted to hold the gripped heat transfer tube horizontally and to make the same align with the holes in the support members; and control means operatively connected to the gripping means and the positioning means so as to sequentially control the operation of both means in a predetermined sequence. The system operates as follows under the control of the control means. The gripping means grips the heat transfer tube and raises the same.

Abstract: A machine and method for assembling cables and precast grids or blocks into articulated erosion control revetment mats which utilizes a transfer roller conveyor oriented at right angles to a mat receiving belt or roller conveyor and communicating with the mat receiving conveyor by means of a right angle transfer table, together with a hydraulical powered push bar. One embodiment utilizes a belt-type mat receiving conveyor and an automatic push bar position sensing mechanism to activate the mat receiving conveyor and stop the mat and push bar at the proper position and return the push bar after it reaches its extreme of travel. A second embodiment of the invention is designed to be easily transported and assembled at a construction site and to have low power consumption requirements. A cable handling rake utilized with the machine and method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A variable insertion rate control system for a component insertion machine is disclosed. An insertion rate is read and retained by the control system which thereafter authorizes insertion of components at the indicated insertion rate. In order to achieve relatively high insertion rates, the downward stroke of the component insertion head is commanded before the receiving medium is registered in position for receiving the component.

Abstract: A device for causing a first object to perform a given, desired displacement determined by a second, fixedly arranged object that is to say, a translation and/or a rotation, particularly intended for assembling objects in industrial production processes, said device comprising a positioning means for moving the first object into a desired position with respect to the second object, comprising an auxiliary body designed for carrying the first object and journalled in a manner such that it has a plurality of degrees of freedom in displacement, driving means for each degree of freedom, a force measuring member for each degree of freedom for measuring the counter-force exerted on the first object during the displacement according to the degree of freedom concerned, feedback means between each force measuring member and the corresponding driving means, wherein the functional relationship between the displacement of the auxiliary body in accordance with a degree of freedom and the relevant counter-force is adjustab

Abstract: An electronic parts mounting apparatus using a band carrier for feeding electronic parts incrementally, the carrier being a strip having many recesses disposed at equal intervals each holding an electronic part and a tape covering the recesses. The apparatus has a support for horizontally supporting the carrier with the coating tape on the top side; a separator for separating the tape from the carrier; and a pickup device for picking up the electronic parts one by one from the recesses in the carrier and by carrying the electronic parts and placing them in position on a circuit board for continuously and stably mounting the electronic parts on the circuit board.

Abstract: A device for the assembly of insulating glass panes comprises an upright wall equipped with supporting rollers, the lower edge of this wall being provided with driven conveying rollers for glass panes, and a carrier with guide rollers for glass panes movable into or out of the upper zone of the glass panes. The wall can be shifted forward and backward at right angles to its plane by at least the thickness of one glass pane with its spacer frame attached thereto, transversely to the conveying direction of the glass panes. A beam liftable and lowerable underneath the wall carries lifting lugs and guide rollers engaging between the conveying rollers. Furthermore, a measuring device at least partially fixedly mounted on the framework is provided, for example a photoelectric cell, to detect the thickness of a glass pane with its spacer frame attached thereto and to shift the wall backward by this amount.

Abstract: A high performance machine for selecting a variety of electronic components by at least two pickers movable along opposite sides of a row of magazines for delivery to a shuttle intersecting said row and which delivers each component to a conditioning means.

Abstract: Conveyor apparatus comprises an endless conveyor operative to convey workpieces past a number of processing stations. The workpieces are conveyed in seats of the conveyor, each of the seats being designated to receive a workpiece which is at a predetermined stage in the process. Means are provided to sense the presence of filled and empty seats and to control workpiece removal and depositing means associated with the processing stations so that workpieces are only removed from, and deposited in, the appropriate designated seats.