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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Russell J. Anderson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Russell J. Anderson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morriwtown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically separating blanks from a copper strip () and coining heat spreader lids () from the blanks. A high speed blanking structure () severs single rectangular or square blanks () from the copper strip. The blanks are loaded into a cartridge (), and placed in a blanks hopper (). The blanks are transferred from the hopper to a rotatable turret (). The turret rotates to move a blank to a coining die cavity of a coining press (). The blank is coined to form a lid and returned to the turret to be delivered to an unload station where the lid is dropped onto a conveyor (). The conveyor transports the lid to a deburr and clean station ().