APPARATUS FOR FITTING VALVES INTO INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES

摘要

A device for fitting valves into the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine by means of a manipulator robot which ensures extraction from their support of a series of valves and the automatic and simultaneous introduction thereof into their respective vertically disposed guides in the cylinder head. The device comprises means for generating a vacuum in the valve guides during introduction of the valves and an assembly of gripping apparatus which are fixed to the same support and each assigned to one of the valves; each gripping apparatus comprises a first portion fixed to the support, a second gripping portion connected by resilient bellows to the first portion and cooperative structure which may be made inoperative for centering the two portions of the apparatus with respect to each other.