Ensuring Stable Operation of Disk Hopper Feeders for Asymmetric Workpieces

The article discusses the main directions of development of structural limitations on the parameters of the gripping and orientation organs of mechanical disk hopper feeders when studying their functionality at the early stages of design. Ranges of structural parameters of gripping and orienting members at passive and active methods of orienting at gripping of workpieces by radial pockets in positions of workpieces lying and standing, and also by tangential pockets in position of workpieces lying, which take into account influence of geometric parameters of workpieces in relationship with structural parameters of hopper feeding devices, are presented in the form of mathematical drops. The given ranges of the main parameters of the working elements involved in the processes of gripping and orienting asymmetric workpieces of the shape of solids of revolution are guaranteed to make it possible to correctly select the values of these parameters and ensure stable functioning of the hopper feeders during design.