| 摘要 |
An assembly machine and method are provided for automatically inserting and fixing blade-like inserts in a torque converter turbine drum or like article. The assembly mechanism includes automatic apparatus for accomplishing the requisite assembly motions, including securely grasping a turbine drum or housing at a load-unload station, moving the drum or housing to a work station, stripping a blade-like insert from a feeding magazine, rolling the stripped insert into the drum or housing, angularly indexing the drum or housing to a successive position so as to receive the next blade-like insert, counting the number of angular indexing steps imparted to the drum, and returning the drum or housing with its assembled blade-like inserts to the load-unload station when the requisite number of blades have been inserted.
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