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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1986
Mavin C Swapp, Mesa, AZ (US);
Milo W Frisbie, Mesa, AZ (US);
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit sleeve handler comprises an input hopper, a first conveyor for sequentially removing individual sleeves from the hopper, an orientor for uniformly orienting the sleeves, a second conveyor for cooperating with the first conveyor to align each sleeve at a sleeve unloading station, a buffer for temporarily holding empty sleeves, a third conveyor for receiving empty sleeves from the buffer and moving them to and past a sleeve loading station and to an output bin and a fourth conveyor for cooperating with the third conveyor to align each sleeve with the sleeve loading station. Thus, all of the sleeve handling needs for an automated integrated circuit handler can be met with a single apparatus which needs very little manual intervention.