Material Rod Feeding Device With Adjustable Guide Legs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing material rod feeding devices struggle to achieve precise alignment of non-circular cross-sectional shapes, such as quadrangular or hexagonal profiles, due to limitations in guide design, leading to potential imbalance and damage during machine tool processing.
Innovation Solution
A guide with variably modifiable receiving channels formed by inclined support and abutment legs, allowing for adjustable alignment along multiple axes, enabling precise positioning of material rods with any cross-sectional shape, including non-circular profiles, using movable legs and drives for accurate alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a fixed guide design is used, then the device structure is simple, but it cannot achieve precise alignment of material rods with non-circular cross-sectional shapes
Solution Approach 1:
The guide means incorporates movable legs that can be adjusted to different positions and angles, transforming a static guide structure into a dynamic one. This allows the guide to adapt to various cross-sectional shapes of material rods while maintaining precise alignment, resolving the contradiction between alignment precision and structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide means allows for parameter changes in the position and orientation of its components (legs) to accommodate different material rod geometries. By adjusting these parameters, the guide can precisely align rods with circular, quadrangular, hexagonal, or other cross-sectional shapes without requiring completely different guide designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a guide is designed for circular cross-sections, then it works well for circular profiles, but it cannot align non-circular cross-sectional shapes correctly
Solution Approach 1:
The guide means is designed with universal adaptability to handle material rods with various cross-sectional shapes (circular, quadrangular, hexagonal, etc.). The movable legs can be positioned and oriented to accommodate different geometries, allowing a single guide design to perform multiple alignment functions that would otherwise require separate specialized guides.
Solution Approach 2:
The dynamic adjustability of the guide legs enables the same guide structure to adapt to different cross-sectional shapes while maintaining precise alignment for each shape type.
3Manufacturing precision
If synchronous rotational movement of multiple discs is required, then alignment can be achieved, but the device complexity and risk of blocking increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the alignment function from a complex multi-disc rotational mechanism and implements it through a simpler guide means with adjustable legs. This eliminates the need for synchronous rotational movement of multiple discs while maintaining alignment precision, thereby reducing device complexity and the risk of blocking.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution ensures reliable and precise alignment of material rods with any cross-sectional shape, preventing misalignment and imbalance, and allows for efficient feeding of material rods to machine tools without additional mechanisms, enhancing processing reliability and simplicity.
Implementation Method 1
allowing the material rod to be fed onto the inclined support surface, in particular by virtue of gravity
Data Source
AI summary
A material rod feeding device for feeding material rods to a machine tool, includes a magazine for stocking the material rods and a guide means into which material rods to be processed can be fed from the magazine, one at a time. The feeding direction of a material rod from the magazine into the guide means, is transversely to the longitudinal axis of the material rod in the guide means. The guide means includes a support leg and an abutment leg for providing a variably modifiable receiving channel. The support leg provides a support surface of the receiving channel that is inclined in the feeding direction and relative to the horizontal. The abutment leg is movable along the inclination relative to the support leg, so that the variably modifiable receiving channel is formed between the two legs, into which the material rod to be processed can be fed onto the support surface. The support leg together with the abutment leg is vertically movable as a whole.