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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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Default A day with a Chinese engineer

Wes fired this volley in
:

He seeing it for the first time and me seeing
them for years but never really understanding the finer points.

Wes


Wes, there is yet another sort of vibratory feeder that relies on a very
fast stroke under the inertia of the parts (so the deck slides under the
work pieces on that stroke), followed by a slower return, whereby they
are stick to the surface and are conducted uphill-downhill-
alongaconveyor-whatever.

There are, in fact, mass flow conveyor systems build on that very
principle.

LLoyd