摘要 |
An apparatus for singling assembly parts from a coherent mass comprises a rotary drum storing the mass and including a slotted peripheral wall with openings of a width permitting single parts to pass therethrough by gravity and a length permitting a plurality of the parts to pass whereby clusters of the parts resolved by the rotation of the drum from the coherent mass pass through the openings by gravity. A whirlpool chamber is arranged downstream of the rotary drum and has an inlet receiving the clusters from the drum openings through a passageway. Nozzles are arranged at the inlet for directing a tangential jet of gas into the chamber and creating a gaseous whirlpool in the chamber for moving and separating the clusters into individual assembly parts, and restricted outlet pipes communicate with the whirlpool chamber remote from the inlet and are arranged to receive individual assembly parts moved by the gas jet so that the individual parts are oriented along the axis of the outlet pipe. |