Stick Fastener Feed System for Large Variety & Small Quantity

2008-01-2320

09/16/2008

Event
Aerospace Manufacturing and Automated Fastening Conference & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Electroimpact has developed a new Fastener Feed System which provides an automated solution for fasteners previously hand fed via drop tubes. The hardware is simple, compact, and is supplied a fraction of the cost of hoppers or cartridges. It can be used as a primary feed system or it can be used as an auxiliary feed system when combined with feed systems designed for high quantities of fasteners. We have installed this system on the A380 Stage 0 LVER lower panel wing machines and feed 5 diameters, 10 grips each, for a total of 50 different fastener types. This system moves 547 total fasteners per ship set from manual feed to automatic feed, saving considerable build time.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-2320
Pages
6
Citation
Boad, C., and Colebourn, D., "Stick Fastener Feed System for Large Variety & Small Quantity," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-2320, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-2320.
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Publisher
Published
Sep 16, 2008
Product Code
2008-01-2320
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English