Development of Design Procedure for Universal Hopper Feeding-Orienting Device with Inclined Disk and Tangential Pockets for Rod Stepped Billets

The article describes a technique of an improved universal hopper feeding-orienting device with an inclined rotating disk and tangentially arranged gripping members for rod stepped workpieces, which includes designing gripping and orienting members, building a mathematical model of the probability of gripping workpieces and a mathematical model of the feed rate of the improved device. All stages of calculation and design of improved universal hopper feeding-orienting device for cylindrical and complex stepped workpieces of solids of revolution are described in detail. An example of calculation and selection from the developed and mathematically described ranges of parameters of an improved device for a complex stepped workpiece is presented, at which the improved device will stably and reliably function, providing the required feed rate of automated equipment while automating feeding processes with maximum feed rate.