US Patent: 3,668,773 - Automatic Insert Assembly System Employing Rotary Transfer of the Workpiece


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US Patent: 3,668,773

Automatic Insert Assembly System Employing Rotary Transfer of the Workpiece

Patentee:

Raymond C. Achterberg (exact or similar names) - Janesville, Rock County, WI

USPTO Classifications:

29/429, 29/717, 29/771, 29/789, 29/809, 29/889.21

Tool Categories:

metalworking machines : metalworking machine mechanisms : workpiece changers and storage mechanisms

Assignees:

Giddings & Lewis, Inc. - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac County, WI

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Sep. 17, 1970
Granted:	Jun. 13, 1972

Patent Pictures:

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Description:

Abstract

An assembly machine and method are provided for automatically inserting and fixing blade-like inserts in a torque converter turbine drum or like article. The assembly mechanism includes automatic apparatus for accomplishing the requisite assembly motions, including securely grasping a turbine drum or housing at a load-unload station, moving the drum or housing to a work station, stripping a blade-like insert from a feeding magazine, rolling the stripped insert into the drum or housing, angularly indexing the drum or housing to a successive position so as to receive the next blade-like insert, counting the number of angular indexing steps imparted to the drum, and returning the drum or housing with its assembled blade-like inserts to the load-unload station when the requisite number of blades have been inserted.