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Zigzag feeder - the most saving material feeder machine

Feb. 01, 2020

At present, the standard feeder using in the stamping production, whether it is air feeder, roller feeder, clamp feeder, nor the most advanced 3 in 1 feeder, all only can feed material along the material stretching direction, can not realize the swing. So in the actual stamping processing there is a big part of blanking to strip, especially the processing screen, cover, the motor stator etc circle material, there's a lot of waste in the corners, this results in a huge waste of raw materials, Is there any practical solution? Yes, of course. This is the zigzag feeder machine. 

Swing feeder


Zigzag feeder machine has two kinds of type: zigzag air feeder and zigzag NC servo feeder. The zigzag air feeder because of poor feeding accuracy and stability, so has been used very few in the market. Therefore, here we only take the zigzag NC servo feeder as an example to explain its structure and using characteristics.


Zigzag NC feeder machine,  installed a moving base and a set of servo motor and driver on the base of NC feeder machine. The zigzag moving base is consist of frame, servo motor, ball screw, guide rail, screw and guide rail lateral parallel arrangement on the rack, servo motor installed in the rack inside, connected to the screw, controlled by the driver in the control box, compared with the standard pneumatic NC feeder small electric box, Zigzag NC feeder change to the vertical large electric box, which has two sets of servo system, one set control feeder step evolution feeding, another set drives the head of the feeder to swing from side to side on the guide rail through the screw rod connected by the transmission, so as to drive the material belt to swing from side to side, realizing the multi-point blanking of the material and greatly reducing the waste of raw materials.

Electric control box

Zigzag NC feeder operation is very simple, just according to the size of the blanking circle and the raw material width, After set the feeding length, swing distance, circle diameter, swing times, swing speed, etc basic parameters on the panel of the zigzag NC feeder machine, the zigzag feeder will take the material forward appropriate distance, along the vertical direction at the same time translation appropriate distance is automatically drive ,to make gap with the next blanking circle and the last one is the minimum, can achieve the circular cutting blanking effect, maximize the realization of the effect, the purpose of saving material.

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