Object Orienting Device With Seating Tracks And Escape Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing object orienting systems in industrial production face challenges in achieving high orientation speed and accurately orienting irregularly shaped objects, leading to a significant number of objects being improperly oriented and ejected, which limits the actual orientation speed and causes accidental escape from the orienting seats.
Innovation Solution
The object orienting device incorporates seating tracks and an escape-preventing surface to align objects properly into orienting seats and prevent accidental ejection, utilizing a rotating plate with inclined seating sectors and pneumatic assistance to enhance orientation speed and accuracy, while maintaining both vertical and angular orientations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If a compressed air ejection blower is used to eject improperly oriented objects, then the orienting speed can be maintained, but the number of objects properly received into seats decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The seating tracks are positioned upstream of the orienting seats to perform preliminary alignment of objects before they enter the seats. This preliminary action ensures that objects are already properly oriented when they reach the seats, reducing the need for ejection and increasing the number of successfully oriented objects.
Solution Approach 2:
The seating tracks act as an intermediary element between the object flow and the orienting seats. These tracks guide and align objects before they enter the seats, serving as a mediator that improves orientation quality without requiring aggressive ejection mechanisms.
2Reliability
If the orienting seats are designed to receive objects, then the orientation function is provided, but accidentally oriented objects may escape from the seats
Solution Approach 1:
The escape-preventing surface is positioned to counteract the harmful effect of object escape before it occurs. By providing a physical barrier upstream, the system prevents accidentally oriented objects from escaping the seating area, maintaining reliable orientation while blocking escape paths.
3Reliability
If seating tracks are introduced to align objects, then the number of properly oriented objects increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The seating tracks are integrated with the orienting seats to form a unified structure. By merging these components, the system achieves improved object alignment without requiring separate, independent track systems, thus reducing overall device complexity while maintaining reliability.
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
This solution significantly increases the number of objects properly received into seats, enhances orientation speed, and reduces accidental escape, ensuring more efficient and accurate object orientation.
Implementation Method 1
a compressed air ejection blower that addresses a compressed air jet towards the objects seated in the orienting seats so as to eject the objects with a vertical orientation other than that desired from the orienting seat
Implementation Method 2
a succession of orienting seats movable along a handling path, wherein each orienting seat is suitable for respectively receiving one of such objects both in a desired vertical orientation and in a vertical orientation other than that desired
Data Source
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AI summary
An orienting device for orienting objects (2) comprises a support structure, a succession of orienting seats (4) suitable for seating the objects (2), a seat support (5) carrying the succession of orienting seats (4) and defining a handling path of the objects (2), means for moving the succession of orienting seats (4) in a movement direction along the handling path, orienting means arranged along the handling path and configured so as to eject the objects (2) having an orientation differing from the desired orientation from the orienting seats (4), as well as a plurality of seating tracks (47) integral with the orienting seats (4), wherein each seating track (47) comprises a channel (48) aligned with and leading into one of said orienting seats (4) and two side guiding walls (23).