"technomaNge" wrote in message
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Buerste wrote:
Damn inertia!

I have an air cylinder, 1.5" x 4" stroke, that pushes a crank on a shaft
to rotate the shaft about 90 deg. On the shaft is a gear with a one-way
clutch. The 4" x 1/2" gear turns about 3" at the perimeter per stroke of
the cylinder. By moving the link to the air cylinder up or down on the
crank the gear will rotate more or less per stroke. A second gear is
meshed into the first gear with pressure from another air cylinder. Wire
is fed between the gears in a grove cut in the face of each gear. The
idea is to feed wire 3" per stroke.



If these are 3" cuts, separate the operations.
Cut, pieces fall into sorting/stacking bin, a different machine feeds
the cuts to your existing machine.


technomaNge
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That's how it's done with round wire. With this flat wire, you can never
lose control of it.