UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING SEMIFINISHED PARTS ON UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING SEMIFINISHED PARTS ON TO A FORMING MACHINE, PARTICULARLY A PRESS TO A FORMING MACHINE, PARTICULARLY A PRESS

摘要

22 A semifinished part feed unit having an indexing table for transferring a stack of semifinished parts from a loading station to a pickoff station; a robot handling fixture for transferring one part at a time from the pickoff station to a press; a detecting device for detecting the characteristics and the position assumed by the stack in the pickoff station; and a control and processing system for generating control signals for the handling fixture in response to input signals from the detecting device.