Vibratory Bowl Feeders
Alok Goswami
Part Feeders
Part feeders are machines that orient parts so that
robots or other automated processes can capture and
use or package the parts or components
Four Main Types:
Bowl feeders: Most common type. Bowl with a
spiral track inside that feeds up using vibration.
Linear feeders: Horizontal conveying of
components. (conveyor, carpet feeder)
Part Feeder types continued
Centrifugal feeders (or rotary feeders): Use a
bowl that spins and forces parts to the outside of
the bowl. At the outside edge of the bowl, the
parts are channeled into receivers when the parts
are in the right orientation. Usually faster and
less noisy than vibratory feeders.
Step feeders: The component parts are collected
from the hopper by elevating plates, pre-sorted
and fed until they reach the desired transfer
height.
Vibratory Bowl Feeders
A vibratory feeder consists of a parts-orienting bowl mounted
on a vibrating drive unit with a variable-amplitude controller.
The drive unit vibrates the bowl causing parts in the bowl to
move around a track that has been tooled to sort and orient the
parts in accordance with a customer's requirements.
Major parts in VBF
Bowl
Bowl Centre
Top Plate
Drive Unit
Stand
Base Plate
Types of Bowls
Cylindrical Bowl
Conical Bowl
Stepped Bowl
Cylindrical Bowl
These bowls provide a constant feed of components.
They are ideal for small components, but have
restricted capacity for some applications.
(smaller parts, continuous feed)
Conical Bowl
A conical bowl provides a higher capacity and
with an increase in radius.
Where necessary, the standard track width, track pitch
and the amount of tracks can be adapted to suit the
application.
(Heavier or Sharp edge components)
Stepped Bowl
Stepped bowls have a larger feeding track width and
are particularly suited to pre-orientation of
components.
The capacity is larger than that of a cylindrical bowl.
A further advantage is that the components do not jam
in the tracks.
(Larger components)
Mechanics of VBF
The Factors affect conveying velocity are as following:
Track Angle ():Angle of inclination of the feeder track
Vibration Angle(): Angle between track and its line of
vibration
Track Amplitude (Ao) Both parallel & normal to track Ap
and An
Frequency of vibration of track (f), expressed as angular
frequency ()
Contd.
Mass of the parts-Mp
Coefficient of static friction between track and the
part-s
Gravity- g
Friction force acting between part and bowl surface-
F(N)
FBD of part being fed
Parallel and normal forces actin on part in VBF
From above figure be seen that, for sliding up the track to
occur,
mpa02cos > mpg sin+ F ..(1)
Where
F=sN =s[mpgcosmpaosin] (2)
On putting value of F in eqn (1) and solving we get
.(3)
(Condition for forward sliding up the track)
(4)
(For backward sliding to occur)
The operating conditions of a VBF may be expressed in
terms of the dimensionless normal track acceleration
An/gn ,
An - normal track acceleration(An= an2= ao2sin)
gn - normal acceleration due to gravity(gcos)
Thus,
..(5)
Putting eqn (5) in eqn (3) & eqn (4)
Contd
(6)
Condition for forward sliding
(7)
Condition for backward sliding
The limiting condition for forward conveying to occur
is given by comparing eqn (6) and eqn (7)Thus, for
forward conveying,
If is small
With sufficiently large vibration amplitudes, the part
will leave the track and hop forward during each
cycle.
Hopping
This can occur only when the normal reaction N
between the part and the track becomes zero.
N = mpg cos mpa02 sin
or
Graphical illustration of equations on previous slides For values of s = 0.8 and
= 3 (0.05)
EFFECT OF FREQUENCY
For given conditions and for constant track
acceleration (that is, when An/gn is constant), the
mean conveying velocity vm is inversely proportional to
the vibration frequency f. Hence
f vm = constant
EFFECT OF TRACK ACCELERATION
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