Feeding apparatus for feeding belted components to an automatic assembly apparatus

摘要

The feeding apparatus comprises a flat housing mounted on the component insertion apparatus in vertical orientation. The housing includes a guiding channel for guiding the supporting tape of the belt containing the components to be fed. The guiding channel comprises a channel portion running horizontally along the upper narrow edge of the housing and has a freely exposed component pick-up area. Driving means are provided for stepwise forwarding the belt through the guiding channel, said driving means mounted in the interior of the housing and including a driving motor. The driving motor has a drive shaft running parallel to the two lateral surfaces of the housing. First and a second power transmission means are fixed to the drive shaft and adapted to stepwise forward the belt containing the components, and to forward the cover tape when it is peeled off from the belt. The means for peeling off the cover tape from the belt comprise a deflection means having an oblique deflection edge located in the horizontally running channel portion above said guiding channel, and further having a deflection pulley with a horizontally extending rotation shaft. The cover tape of the belt is peeled off from the belt over the deflection edge in horizontal direction and perpendicularly to the forwarding direction of the belt and runs over the deflection pulley to be removed in downward direction.