Trion Industries, Inc.

Daniel J Ellis

Thomas O Nagel

A high speed, high accuracy parts counting system is disclosed. The new system utilizes known types of centrifugal feeder devices with novel modifications relating to the sensing and control of individual workpieces, enabling workpieces to be counted and processed at much greater speeds than before, while equaling or improving accuracy. The new system makes no attempt to separate individual workpieces for counting purposes, enabling operations to be carried out at greater speeds. Counting of workpieces in an unseparated group of such workpieces is accomplished by electronic measurement of movement of the centrifugal feeder between the leading and trailing edges of a group of unseparated workpieces. The counting of a predetermined number of workpieces is thus a function of the counting of pulses and is independent of the separation or non-separation of workpieces during counting. Provision is also made for high speed collection and discharge of counted groups of workpieces.

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Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States of America

Daniel J Ellis