METHOD FOR ORIENTING STEPPED PARTS Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: automatization of production processes. SUBSTANCE: method is used for orienting parts such as rods with cylindrical and other steps between which there are drops not extended along the whole perimeter of shoulder at operations of mechanical working, assembling, welding and measuring. Method comprises steps of feeding part out of supplying trough into slot of inclined ring; transporting part by rotating ring and transmitting to discharging trough correctly oriented part; fixing non-correctly oriented part in ring and reorienting it to correct position by rotating ring until its slot coincides with discharging trough; then releasing part and transmitting it to discharging trough; before feeding part into slot of inclined ring lowering size of cross section area of outlet portion of slot for guiding into it correctly oriented part; before transmitting part into discharging trough increasing cross section area of outlet portion of slot until size of its inlet portion. EFFECT: enlarged using range of method due to possibility of orienting rods with different shape of steps including rods with step drops not extended along the whole perimeter of shoulder. 3 dwg