Design of a cable handing machine

Τίτλος

Design of a cable handing machine

Θέμα

Machinery--Automatic control

Cable structures

Δημιουργός

Spanias Ph.Savvas

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1992

Συνεισφέρων

Neokleous, Costas

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

eng

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

MED0171

Σύνοψη

This project is about the design of a device being able to measure and cut required lengths of rope~like materials. These are materials like steel wire ropes, hoses, fibre ropes, metal strips etc. that are manufacturem and package in reels.
In order to do so, the machine has to follow a number of steps which have as stated above.
a) first step, is to unroll the reels.
b) second step, is to measure the required quantity.
c) third step, is to cut the material at the specified length.
d) fOUf1h step, is to roll it back in another drum or reel.
The design and dimensions of the above device must be seriously examined so as to be competitive with similar machines and to provide easy installations and facilities to be moved, without great effort, if the conditions call for.
Another thing to be always bared in mind, while designing such innovative machines, is the ergonomics of the machine. The controls must be able to be found easily by the operator and the switches must be easy to
operate. The positions for the stock quantity and the required quantity ie. the input and output, must be easily reached and must be in such height so that an average person could reach and lift the materials from the
input/output drums. The machine must of course provide facility for emergency (cut-off) switch like all new and old machines (lathe, planning machines, drilling machines etc).
Machines constructed nowadays must have the advantage to be completely automatic and if possible to inform the operator of what is to take place and what possitions the operator should attempt. In a few words,the word "machine" has to be replaced with phrases like "the metalic servant"
or even better "the metalic instructor" (don't forget the computers). Of course a metalic servant is all what the cable handling machine is up to.
As one of the basic things such a machine should posse sed is the information at any instant of the length being measured and the length to be measured on both the metric and imperial system.