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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
May. 27, 1994
Giorgio Del Fabro, Cassacco-Fraz.Montegnacco, IT;
Marcello Del Fabro, Udine, IT;
M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici SpA, Reana Del Rojale, IT;
Abstract
Butting assembly and butting method employing the same to butt a single bar (11) or to butt a bundle of bars (11) by butting the single bars (11), the assembly being installed upstream of a processing machine, the bars (11) being fed one by one by hand or automatically to the butting assembly, which comprises a trolley (12) capable of to-and-fro alternating motion and able to move along a guide (13) extending lengthwise along the axis of the bar (11), the trolley (12) including at its upstream end gripper means (15) and at its downstream end abutment plate means (14) on the same axis as the bar (11), the abutment plate means (14) being kept resiliently in an inactive position and cooperating directly with position detection means (16) associated with an assembly (17) that manages and controls the butting assembly (10), the extreme positions of the trolley (12) being defined on the guide (19) by two end-of-travel stops (19), which are an upstream end-of-travel stop (19a) and a downstream end-of-travel stop (19b) respectively, the downstream end-of-travel stop (19b) actuating the gripper means (15) for opening and release.