Versatile features get valve guides and valve seats to O.D. grinders from batches stored in portable stock gondolas. The components are docked to an elevating conveyor and parts are chuted to an orienting conveyor.
Guides are fed and flex tracked, end-to-end, to a vibratory live feed, exiting to the grinder rest blade at 190/240” per minute. Seats are fed diameter to diameter, laying flat, out of the orientor.
A floating mandrel spears parts as they leave the conveyor. Bends in the mandrel deliver them into a tube, face-to-face with horizontal axes. The mandrel/tube is fitted to the vibratory live feed, where seats exit to the grinder rest blade at 64/82” per minute.
Orienting conveyor and live feed units are easily adjustable to follow the rest blade for wheel wear and part diameters. Adjustable and replaceable tooling is conveniently stored on the machine.
Part changeover no more than 12 minutes from start to finish.
