Tip them pocket down and vibrate them, get the dust to fall out (use a roller conveyor)
Dave On 18/08/2014, Marius Liebenberg <mar...@mastercut.co.za> wrote: > Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that > will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then > blow the lot clean. > A number of swirling nozzle will also work. > > On 2014-08-18 19:46, Todd Zuercher wrote: >> I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? >> >> A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed >> randomly on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in >> them. I would like to automate a method of blowing out the dust left from >> milling the pockets. How hard would it be to detect the location of these >> pockets, position an air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a >> short air blast as they are carried down the conveyor. >> > > -- > > Regards /Groete > > Marius D. Liebenberg > +27 82 698 3251 > +27 12 743 6064 > QQ 1767394877 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users