Spring Feeder Air SF

Pneumatic Technology for
micro springs

Do you have springs so small that they’re difficult to separate and handle?
Do they get entangled, making it hard to separate them and slowing down your production cycle? Not sure how to get individual springs, neatly arranged and ready for collection?

Air Spring Feeder is the solution

The problem, the solution

Air SF isn’t simply the solution to disentangle your springs, but also to obtain single springs, which can
provide on the basis of your production cycle feed rates, and convey exactly where you need.
The project starts with you, we simply adjust the system to suit your requirements.

Before

Tangled springs

After

Single and sorted output

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What springs is it suitable for?

AIR SF is projected to manage in an automatic way springs of small and infinitesimal dimensions, including those which have a very delicate wire.
Air jets allow to disentangle and orient pieces without causing any warping.

Springs size range:

Size
Lengths: from 1,5 to 20 mm
Flatten
Diameter: from 0,5 to 8 mm

Available version:

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Model 250
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Model 300
Air SF
How it works:

AIR SF functioning is simply based on the air jets use. They produce a vortex inside the cylindrical skull cap.
This process allows to:

  • facilitate the opening of the entangled springs
  • carry the springs to a specific channel
  • separate and handle the single springs at the established frequency

The springs are singularly sucked into a rilsan tube, that is an accumulation point (the buffering), so that there are always single springs, one behind the other, ready for the following operations.

Ideale per molle con:

Size
Lunghezze da 3 a 20 mm
Flatten
Diametro da 1,5 a 8 mm

The process

How can we be sure to allow the passage of only one spring?

Because a mechanical caliper, managed by a sensor, guarantees the only passage of the single spring.

So far so clear, but in the practice? Do we disentangle all the springs?
It may remain a little amount on the bottom of the skull cap, it has to be removed manually, at the end of the cycle. Statistically it is about a 5% of the overall springs.

Step 1

Air jets produce a vortex inside the cylindrical skull cap

Step 2

Springs conveyed into the accumulation point

Step 3

Single springs are separated and handled at the established frequency

Step 4

Single springs ready for the following operations

Available configurations

Basic system, or turnkey option,
you choose the solution that you prefer.

AIR SF is adjustable on the basis of your needs, your layout and your budget.
For this reason it can be provided in the arrangement that is better for your requirements.

We can complete the basic version with:

Loading hopper

to dose the springs inside the skull cap and to automate the loading

Supporting bench or plate

to integrate the system in your machine

Final escapement

to provide the single spring exactly with the established frequency for your machine cycle

Buffering system

that can be a rilsan tube, or a vibratory linear feeder, necessary when you have high feed rates and to ensure that springs are always available in an organised manner.

Electric panel with PLC

to manage the system automatically and have the turnkey option.

Why choosing AIR SF

The advantages of the system

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Efficient management of very small sized springs
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No deformations of the fialment
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Low noisiness, ideal for working environments with operators
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Possibility of handle springs of many sizes with only one system, thanks to simple changes of the specific channels
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Excellent reliability of the automatic process
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Easy integrability in existing machinery, thanks to the compact dimensions

Video Gallery

Mechanical caliper detail

Guarantees e controlles the passage of only single springs

Final escapement

Spring Feeder in action, with particular attention to the final escapement, that provide the passage of only single springs, exactly with the established frequency for your machine cycle

Loading system

Loading hopper doses the springs inside the skull cap and to automates the loading

Air jets and the specific channel

Air jets separate the entangled springs and carry them into a specific channel

Request advice

Tell us about your application and describe your spring. Very likely we already met a similar case and we can help you finding the most suitable solution.

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