DEVICE FOR CHARGING RING BLANKS INTO CONTINUOUS FURNACE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering; multipurpose automatic devices designed for complex machining of articles, including charging, washing, distributing, displacing, orientating and placing bearing race blanks into continuous hardening furnaces. SUBSTANCE: proposed automatic devices can be easily readjusted from one type of article to the other. With drum rotating, distribution of bearing blanks among bridges, blowing of blanks by compressed air and delivering of blanks along guide chute to blank stowing mechanism which places the blanks on roller tables of continuous hardening furnace are provided. All operations are carried out automatically and are adapted for blanks of different diameter and width. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 1 cl, 9 dwg