LF Disk

The Disk model of Loop Feeder allows the positioning of items exiting from a circular vibrant on a glass disk, arranging them in a single-file line or, at least, in an ordered way.

While circulating on the motorized disk, the items can be checked with an adequate vision system and thus discarded (if a quality check is needed) or picked up by a robot or a manipulating device.

Unpicked items are conveyed back to an external area of the circular vibrant, thus creating a continuous loop.

The challenge

The client is a manufacturer of valves and accessories for cleaning machines. He needed to perform a check with a vision system on the items, which were then to be picked up by a SCARA robot. The range of items was wide and they had to arrive in vertical position in order to allow the check before and the grip afterwards.

Further requests:

1) Cadence of 30 items/minute
2) Easy usage at format changing

The LF DISK solution

Through simple adjustments, we have realized a vibrating bowl that allowed the vertical positioning of the conveyed items on a glass disk. In the first part of the disk, provided with light and camera, the item check took place. If not compliant, the item was discarded into a slide through an air blow, while in another part of the disk the grip was performed by a SCARA robot. The unpicked ones, because too close to one another or lying down, recirculated back to the vibrating bowl.
Final outcome:
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Orderly and continuous positioning of the items

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Opportunity to perform a quality check and to get an unambiguous positioning of the items

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High check or grip cadence, since the items are averagely already oriented

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Easy usage and implementation

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Configuration for an acoustic insulating layer

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