Centrifeeds.

Centrifeed Description

The Aylesbury Automation Centrifeed is a centrifugal parts feeder, specially engineered for high speed feeding requirements.

Delivery speeds of the Centrifeed can be varied from a few, to thousands of parts per minute.

Our machines are also available with automatic loading from bulk storage to ensure uninterrupted high speed delivery of product.

Centrifeed Features

Centrifeeds operate on an economical low maintenance mechanical principle.

The rotor is driven through an electronic control, which provides infinitely variable speed to suit each application.

Centripetal force drives the components around the outer edge of of the rotor, where precision-engineered tooling picks off the parts and orientates them to the delivery track.

Track shapes and designs, as well as escapement and detecting devices can be custom engineered to ensure a smooth, controlled delivery of parts. It is also possible to engineer multiple delivery tracks from the Centrifeed to feed more than one machine.

Orientation of some parts can be achieved with vision systems eliminating complex tooling.

A range of diameters provide capacities to accommodate differing component shapes and sizes. All models can be supplied with either clockwise or counter clockwise rotation and are also available without tooling.

Stands can be supplied if desired, to match track discharge dimensions to suit customers requirements. A noise reduction and safety interlocked cover is fitted as standard.

Where can you use it?

The following parts are currently in production with our Centrifeeds, at the approximate speeds shown below. Please note that the speeds shown are the requirements for the customers, and not the maximum achievable.

Nyloc Nuts (various) - 400+ parts per minute
Blank Discs (various) - 800+ parts per minute
Bottle Caps (pilferproof & standard) - 1,500 parts per minute
Alloy Discs - 900 parts per minute
Crown Caps - 600 parts per minute
Bearing rollers - 1000+ parts per minute
Tufnol Insulators - 1,200 parts per minute
12 Bore Cartridges - 1,200 parts per minute
Battery Caps - 800+ parts per minute
Cigar mouthpieces - 850 parts per minute
M8 Plain Nuts - 600+ parts per minute
Holochrome bolts M10 x 25 - 900 parts per minute
Chain Link Blanks (multi-track) - 3 x 900 parts per minute
Steel rods (various) - 2,000+ parts per minute
Tin Lids - 600+ parts per minute
Plastic Caps - 1,000 parts per minute
Hexagon Discs - 800 parts per minute
Domed Discs - 600 parts per minute
Aerosol Eyelets - 1,500 parts per minute

Have a look at the machine applications where Centrifeeds have been used. You can see other applications in here

Downloads

By registering with the Aylesbury Automation, you will be able to down load 3D CAD "step" files of the Euro Series Drive Unit models.

You can down load the basic Centrifeed 2D data from here, or a PDF of the sales brochure and for the Aylesbury range of products.