Conveyance system for interface with component production and assembly equipment
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    发明授权
    Conveyance system for interface with component production and assembly equipment 有权
    与组件生产和组装设备接口的输送系统

    公开(公告)号:US06688457B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-10

    申请号:US09966284

    申请日:2001-09-28

    IPC分类号: B21F2700

    CPC分类号: B21F3/027 B21F27/16 B21F33/04

    摘要: Machinery for automated manufacture of formed wire structures such as innerspring assemblies for mattresses and seating and flexible support structures includes one or more coil formation devices configurable to produce helical spring coils having a terminal convolution which extends beyond an end of the coil; a conveyor system having a plurality of flights slidably mounted upon a continuous track and connected to a chain and driven by an index driver, the flights being connected to a drive system which enables variable spacing between the flights so that the conveyor can be loaded with articles at one spacing interval and be unloaded at a different interval; a coil transfer machine which removes a row of coils from the conveyor and inserts the coils into an innerspring assembler; an innerspring assembler having first and second sets of coil-engaging dies in a parallel arrangement, each set of dies having an upper row positioned over a lower row, the dies being mounted upon carrier bars which are vertically translated within the innerspring assembler to diverge the upper and lower dies of a set to allow positioning of a row of uncompressed coils between the upper and lower dies, and to converge the upper and lower dies upon a row of coils to compress and thereby securely hold the coils in a row; a coil interconnection device for interconnecting adjacent rows of coils in the first and second sets of dies by attachment of fastening means about the adjacent coils; and an indexer assembly engageable with the carrier bars and operative to laterally translate the carrier bars, whereby the lateral position of the first and second sets of dies can be exchanged to provide continuous attachment of rows of coils to produce an interconnected array of coils as an innerspring assembly.

    摘要翻译: 用于自动制造成型线结构的机器,例如用于床垫和座椅的内弹簧组件和柔性支撑结构,包括一个或多个线圈形成装置,其可配置成产生具有延伸超过线圈端部的端部卷积的螺旋弹簧线圈; 输送机系统具有可滑动地安装在连续轨道上并连接到链条并由索引驱动器驱动的多个翼片,所述翼片连接到驱动系统,该驱动系统使得能够将输送机装载在物品之间 以一个间隔间隔,并以不同的间隔卸载; 线圈传送机器,其从输送机移除一排线圈并将线圈插入到内装弹簧组装器中; 具有平行布置的第一组和第二组线圈接合模具的内弹簧组装器,每组模具具有位于下排上方的上排,所述模具安装在承载杆上,所述承载杆在内弹簧组件内垂直平移以使 上模具和下模具,以允许在上模和下模之间定位一排未压缩线圈,并且将上模和下模集中在一排线圈上以压缩,从而将线圈牢固地保持在一排; 线圈互连装置,用于通过围绕相邻线圈附接紧固装置来互连第一组和第二组模具中的相邻排线圈; 以及分度器组件,其可与承载杆接合并且可操作以横向平移承载杆,由此可以更换第一组和第二组模具的横向位置以提供线圈的连续附接以产生相互连接的线圈阵列,作为 内弹簧组件。

    BUFFY COAT SEPARATOR FLOAT SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20130095007A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-04-18

    申请号:US13638037

    申请日:2011-03-30

    IPC分类号: B04B7/08

    摘要: Tube and float systems for separation and axial expansion of the buffy coat are provided. Generally, the systems include a flexible sample tube and a rigid separator float having a specific gravity intermediate that of red blood cells and plasma. The sample tube has an elongated sidewall having a first cross-sectional inner diameter. The float has a main body portion and one or more support members protruding from the main body portion to engage and support the sidewall of the sample tube. During centrifugation, the centrifugal force enlarges the diameter of the tube to permit density-based axial movement of the float in the tube. After centrifugation is ended, the tube sidewall returns to its first diameter, thereby capturing the float and trapping the buffy coat constituents in an annular volume. Several different systems for capturing and retrieving the buffy coat constituents are described.