Elscint manufactures a vibratory feeding and stacking system for stacking circlips and rings. Both internal and external circlips can be stacked in this equipment. This is used where the customer wants to stack the circlips on a vibrating tube, from where they would be packing the same. Uptill now we had offered two outlet stacking machines to various customers in USA, Taiwan as well as India. However, recently one US customer approached us for stacking of rings in three tubes. The rings ranged from diameter 20 mm to diameter 55 mm. The rings are like circlips where one end is open. This results in entanglement of the rings into each other. Hence, manual disentangling of the rings and then stacking them is very time consuming.
Uptill now, Elscint had offered either single tube stacking or else 2 tube stacking. For this requirement, 3 tube stacking was offered by using a bigger bowl feeder. Model 630 Vibratory Feeder was used for this purpose along with Elscint LF II linear vibrators (3 in number). Each of these, the vibratory bowl feeder as well as the linear vibrators were placed on separate stands having (+/-) 100 mm ht adjustment. Additionally, the linear vibrator stands had a tilting arrangement, making the adjustment between various ring sizes easy and fast.
Elscint designed the equipment is such a manner that not only were the rings disentangled inside the bowl itself by providing tooling for disentanglement of the rings. Thereafter the rings were stacked in 3 separate tubes mounted on separate linear vibratory feeder. This ensured that the rings came forward easily. A speed of 100+ rings per minute per outlet was achieved.
This is a standard equipment designed and manufactured by Elscint which is highly popular with circlip and ring manufacturers all over the world.