This is what we are trying now. And it isn't quite working. To get the pockets clean pressures on the air curtain have to be so high that we have to have roller hold downs on the pieces to keep them from flying off the table. It also requires a huge amount of air to cover a 5ft wide conveyor. The thought was one short blast directed only where needed would only require a relatively small amount of air, the expelled dust would be more easily contained (smaller volume of air scattering it.) and remove the need for the roller hold downs.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marius Liebenberg" <mar...@mastercut.co.za> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 2:45:10 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision? 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
