US Patent: 3,691,618
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| Automatic Insert Assembly Machine and Method Employing Deformation and Linear Transfer of Workpieces
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Patentees:
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| Raymond C. Achterberg (exact or similar names) - Janesville, Rock County, WI |
| Charles L. Bunker (exact or similar names) - Janesville, Rock County, WI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 19, 1971 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 19, 1972 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Giddings & Lewis Manufacturing Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
An assembly machine and method are provided for automatically inserting and fixing blade-like foil inserts in a torque converter turbine drum or similar article. The assembly mechanism includes automatic apparatus for accomplishing the requisite assembly motions, including moving a turbine drum which is placed upon a translatable rack to a preliminary position, moving the drum from the rack to a work position upon a supporting mandrel, stripping a foil insert from a feeding magazine, forcing the stripped insert along U-shaped guides to temporarily and resiliently cup or temporarily spring the end of the insert for insertion into the drum, inserting a first foil ear into the drum, thereby locating the foil in a preliminary position, hammering the foil into its final assembled position in the drum, angularly indexing the drum or housing to a successive position so as to receive the next blade-like foil insert, counting the number of angular indexing steps imparted to the drum, and moving the drum with its assembled blade-like foil inserts back to the rack and then out of the assembly mechanism when the requisite number of foils have been inserted. |
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