Excess material collecting device for wood processing and working method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of timber processing equipment, in particular to wood processing excess material collecting equipment and a working method thereof.
Background
Timber adds man-hour often can produce a large amount of clouts, abandon the clout and can cause a large amount of wastes, consequently, adopt clout collecting device to collect the clout when processing timber, so as to clout recycle, the clout that timber produced in the course of working is unrestrained everywhere easily, pollute operational environment, traditional clout collecting device needs artifical auxiliary work, high in labor strength, the collection speed is slow, and traditional clout collecting device is not convenient for dismantle, inconvenient maintenance, and short service life.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide wood processing remainder collecting equipment and a working method thereof, the invention drives a brush mounting plate to descend by starting a moving seat, drives a brush to descend, so that the bottom of the brush is in tight contact with a working plate, starts a moving motor, drives a belt to rotate by the moving motor through two belt pulleys, the belt drives the moving seat to move and drives the brush to move, the brush drives the remainders on the upper surface of the working plate to move and push the remainders to the edge of the upper surface of the working plate to be accumulated, the brush is driven to repeatedly move by the moving motor, the brush repeatedly cleans the upper surface of the working plate, the two clamping cylinders drive two groove-shaped clamping plates to reversely move by starting two clamping cylinders, the working plate is loosened by the two groove-shaped clamping plates, the two rotating cylinders are started, and the rotating cylinders drive a gear to rotate through a bending plate and a fixed rod, the gear drives the gear II to rotate, the gear II drives the gear shaft to rotate, the gear shaft drives the working plate to rotate through the square insertion rod, one side of the working plate, on which excess materials are accumulated, is turned downwards, the excess material collecting device can intensively accumulate excess materials on the upper surface of the working plate, the excess materials on the working plate slide onto a belt conveyor through rotation of the working plate, the excess materials are driven by the belt conveyor to move out of a base for collection, the excess material collecting device can automatically collect the excess materials, meanwhile, cleanness of the working plate is guaranteed, working efficiency is high, and the technical problems that manual auxiliary work is needed in the traditional excess material collecting device, labor intensity is high, and collecting speed is low are solved;
according to the wood residue collecting device, the two clamping cylinders are started, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to move oppositely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates clamp and fix two ends of the working plate, wood is placed on the working plate for processing, processed excess materials are scattered on the working plate, the excess material collecting device can ensure that the working plate is in a stable state during working, the mounting frame is arranged above the working plate and can play a role in shielding the excess materials, and the technical problems that the excess materials generated in the wood processing process are easy to scatter around and pollute the working environment are solved;
the invention drives the working plate to rotate to a horizontal state through the rotating cylinder, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to clamp and fix two ends of the working plate, the two moving cylinders are started, the moving cylinders drive the moving block to move through the connecting rod and the connecting plate, the moving block drives the moving vertical rod to move, so that the two moving vertical rods drive the two connecting heads to move reversely, the two connecting heads drive the two square insertion rods to be separated from the slots on two sides of the working plate, the two lifting cylinders are started, the lifting cylinders drive the mounting frame to ascend through the lifting connecting rods and the vertical rods and drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates and the working plate to ascend, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to loosen the working plate to disassemble the working plate, the working plate in the excess material collecting device is convenient to disassemble, the working plate is convenient to replace and maintain, and the inconvenience in disassembling of the traditional excess material collecting device is solved, inconvenient maintenance.
The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
the wood processing excess material collecting device comprises a base, wherein a mounting seat is fixedly mounted at the top of the base, a moving seat is movably mounted on one side of the mounting seat along the horizontal direction, a hairbrush air cylinder is fixedly mounted at the top of the moving seat, a hairbrush mounting plate is arranged below the moving seat, the bottom end of an output rod of the hairbrush air cylinder is fixedly connected with the hairbrush mounting plate, and a hairbrush is mounted at the bottom of the hairbrush mounting plate;
the upper wall of base has been seted up and has been led to the groove, the inboard fixed mounting of base has commentaries on classics board mechanism, the work board is installed at the top of commentaries on classics board mechanism, the inboard fixed mounting of base has band conveyer, the opening has all been seted up to the both sides of base, band conveyer's both ends are passed and are corresponded the opening and extend to the outside of base.
Further, the equal fixed mounting in both sides of mount pad has the fixed arm, fixed mounting has the lift cylinder on the fixed arm, the output pole top fixed mounting of lift cylinder has the lift connecting rod, the bottom fixed mounting of lift connecting rod has two vertical poles, the vertical pole runs through the fixed arm, just the bottom and the installation frame fixed connection of vertical pole, fixed mounting has two centre gripping cylinders on the installation frame, the inboard of installation frame is provided with two flute profile splint, two flute profile splint are the symmetric distribution, the output pole tip of centre gripping cylinder and the flute profile splint fixed connection who corresponds.
Further, the rotating plate mechanism comprises a supporting beam, a fixed seat is fixedly installed at the top of the supporting beam through welding, the bottom of the fixed seat is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the lower side of the base through a bolt, two movable vertical rods are movably installed above the supporting beam, one side of each of the two movable vertical rods is hinged with a rotating cylinder, a bending plate is fixedly installed at the top end of an output rod of each rotating cylinder, connectors are fixedly installed at the tops of the two movable vertical rods, the working plate is installed between the two connectors, a first gear and a second gear are arranged on the inner side of each connector and are vertically distributed, the first gear and the second gear are meshed, one gear is rotatably installed on the inner side of each connector, a fixed rod is fixedly installed on the first gear, a curved through groove is formed in one side of each connector, the one end of dead lever is passed curved shape and is led to the groove and extend to the outside of connector, just the dead lever is located the one end in the connector outside and is rotated with the board of bending and be connected, two fixed mounting of gear are on the gear shaft, the gear shaft passes through the bearing and is rotated with the connector and be connected, the one end of gear shaft extends to the outside of connector, just the one end fixed mounting of gear shaft has square inserted bar, the slot has all been seted up to the both sides of working plate, square inserted bar and slot looks adaptation.
Further, the bottom fixed mounting of supporting beam has two moving cylinders, two moving cylinders are the symmetric distribution, the upper surface movable mounting of supporting beam has two movable blocks, remove montant fixed mounting at the upper surface of movable block, the equal fixed mounting in both sides of movable block has the connecting plate, two pass through connecting rod fixed connection between the bottom of connecting plate, moving cylinder's output rod tip is articulated with the connecting rod that corresponds.
Furthermore, two sliding rails II are fixedly installed on the upper surface of the supporting cross beam, the two sliding rails II are respectively located at two ends of the upper surface of the supporting cross beam, a sliding block II is fixedly installed at the bottom of the moving block, and the moving block is connected with the supporting cross beam in a sliding mode through the sliding block II and the sliding rails II.
Further, the belt conveyor is located between the two movable vertical rods.
Furthermore, the installation seat is rotatably provided with two belt pulleys, the two belt pulleys are connected through a belt in a transmission mode, the installation seat is fixedly provided with a moving motor, the output shaft end of the moving motor is fixedly connected with one of the belt pulleys, one end of the moving seat is fixedly connected with one side of the belt, one end of the moving seat is fixedly provided with two first sliding blocks, the installation seat is transversely and fixedly provided with two first sliding rails, and the first sliding blocks are slidably connected with the first sliding rails.
A working method of wood processing remainder collecting equipment specifically comprises the following steps:
before timber is processed, a working plate is in a horizontal state, a brush is positioned above the edge of one side of the working plate, two clamping cylinders are started, the two clamping cylinders drive two groove-shaped clamping plates to move oppositely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates clamp and fix two ends of the working plate, the timber is placed on the working plate for processing, and processed excess materials are scattered on the working plate;
step two, after wood processing is finished, starting a moving seat, driving a brush mounting plate to descend by the moving seat, driving a brush to descend to enable the bottom of the brush to be in close contact with a working plate, starting a moving motor, driving a belt to rotate by the moving motor through two belt pulleys, driving the moving seat to move by the belt, driving the brush to move, driving surplus materials on the upper surface of the working plate to move by the brush, pushing the surplus materials to the edge of the upper surface of the working plate to be accumulated, driving the brush to move repeatedly by the moving motor, and repeatedly cleaning the upper surface of the working plate by the brush;
step three, two clamping cylinders are started, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to move reversely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates loosen the working plate, two rotating cylinders are started, the rotating cylinders drive a first gear to rotate through a bending plate and a fixing rod, the second gear drives a second gear to rotate, the second gear drives a gear shaft to rotate, the gear shaft drives the working plate to rotate through a square insertion rod, one side of the working plate, on which the excess material is accumulated, is turned downwards, the excess material on the working plate slides onto a belt conveyor, and the belt conveyor drives the excess material to move out of the base for collection;
step four, when the working plate is disassembled, the rotating cylinder drives the working plate to rotate to a horizontal state, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to clamp and fix the two ends of the working plate, the two moving cylinders are started, the moving cylinders pass through the connecting rods, the connecting plates drive the moving blocks to move, the moving blocks drive the moving vertical rods to move, the two moving vertical rods enable the two moving vertical rods to move reversely, the two moving vertical rods drive the two connectors to move reversely, the two connectors drive the two square insertion rods to be separated from the slots on the two sides of the working plate, the two lifting cylinders are started, the lifting cylinders pass through the lifting connecting rods, the longitudinal rods drive the mounting frame to ascend, the two groove-shaped clamping plates and the working plate are driven to ascend, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to loosen the working plate, and the working plate is disassembled to be maintained.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention starts the moving seat, the moving seat drives the brush mounting plate to descend and drives the brush to descend, so that the bottom of the brush is in close contact with the working plate, the moving motor is started, the moving motor drives the belt to rotate through the two belt pulleys, the belt drives the moving seat to move and drives the brush to move, the brush drives the excess material on the upper surface of the working plate to move and push the excess material to the edge of the upper surface of the working plate to be accumulated, the brush drives the brush to move repeatedly through the moving motor, the brush cleans the upper surface of the working plate repeatedly, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to move reversely by starting the two clamping cylinders, the two groove-shaped clamping plates loosen the working plate, the two rotating cylinders start the rotating cylinders, the rotating cylinders drive the gear I to rotate through the bending plate and the fixing rod, the gear drives the gear II to rotate, the gear II drives the gear shaft to rotate, the gear shaft drives the working plate to rotate through the square insertion rod, the side, on which the excess materials are accumulated, of the working plate is turned downwards, the excess material collecting device can intensively accumulate the excess materials on the upper surface of the working plate, the excess materials on the working plate slide onto the belt conveyor by rotating the working plate, the excess materials are driven by the belt conveyor to move out of the base for collection, the excess material collecting device can automatically collect the excess materials, the collecting speed is high, the neatness of the working plate is guaranteed, and the working efficiency is high;
according to the wood material collecting device, the two clamping cylinders are started, the two clamping cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to move oppositely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates clamp and fix two ends of the working plate, wood materials are placed on the working plate for processing, processed excess materials are scattered on the working plate, the excess material collecting device can ensure that the working plate is in a stable state during working, and the installation frame is arranged above the working plate and can play a role in shielding the excess materials, so that the excess materials are prevented from being scattered around;
the working plate is driven to rotate to a horizontal state through the rotating air cylinder, the two clamping air cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to clamp and fix two ends of the working plate, the two moving air cylinders are started, the moving air cylinders drive the moving block to move through the connecting rod and the connecting plate, the moving block drives the moving vertical rods to move, the two moving vertical rods drive the two connecting heads to move in a reverse direction, the two connecting heads drive the two square insertion rods to be separated from the slots on two sides of the working plate, the two lifting air cylinders are started, the lifting air cylinders drive the installation frame to ascend through the lifting connecting rods and the longitudinal rods and drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates and the working plate to ascend, the two clamping air cylinders drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates to release the working plate, and the working plate is detached.
Drawings
In order to facilitate understanding for those skilled in the art, the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional structure diagram of a wood processing excess material collecting device of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing the structure of a wood processing residue collecting apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a partial structure view of a wood processing residue collecting apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an assembly view of the rotating plate mechanism and the work plate of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the pivoting plate mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of the plate rotating mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a partial structural sectional view of the rotating plate mechanism of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a base; 2. a mounting seat; 3. a movable seat; 4. a brush mounting plate; 5. a brush; 6. a fixed arm; 7. mounting the frame; 8. a plate rotating mechanism; 9. a support beam; 10. a working plate; 11. a groove-shaped clamping plate; 12. a clamping cylinder; 13. a moving motor; 14. a brush cylinder; 15. moving the vertical rod; 16. a moving cylinder; 17. a connecting rod; 18. a connecting plate; 19. a moving block; 20. rotating the cylinder; 21. a fixed seat; 22. a belt conveyor; 23. a connector; 231. a curved through slot; 24. a first gear; 25. a second gear; 26. fixing the rod; 27. bending the plate; 28. a gear shaft; 29. a square inserted link; 30. a lifting cylinder; 31. a lifting connecting rod; 32. a longitudinal rod.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the following embodiments, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1-7, a wood processing excess material collecting device comprises a base 1, wherein a mounting seat 2 is fixedly mounted at the top of the base 1, a moving seat 3 is movably mounted at one side of the mounting seat 2 along the horizontal direction, a brush cylinder 14 is fixedly mounted at the top of the moving seat 3, a brush mounting plate 4 is arranged below the moving seat 3, the bottom end of an output rod of the brush cylinder 14 is fixedly connected with the brush mounting plate 4, and a brush 5 is mounted at the bottom of the brush mounting plate 4;
logical groove has been seted up to the upper wall of base 1, the inboard fixed mounting of base 1 has commentaries on classics board mechanism 8, the working plate 10 is installed at the top of commentaries on classics board mechanism 8, the inboard fixed mounting of base 1 has band conveyer 22, the opening has all been seted up to the both sides of base 1, the both ends of band conveyer 22 are passed and are corresponded the opening and extend to the outside of base 1.
The equal fixed mounting in both sides of mount pad 2 has fixed arm 6, fixed mounting has lift cylinder 30 on the fixed arm 6, the output pole top fixed mounting of lift cylinder 30 has lift connecting rod 31, lift connecting rod 31's bottom fixed mounting has two vertical poles 32, vertical pole 32 runs through fixed arm 6, just vertical pole 32's bottom and installation frame 7 fixed connection, fixed mounting has two centre gripping cylinders 12 on the installation frame 7, the inboard of installation frame 7 is provided with two flute profile splint 11, two flute profile splint 11 are the symmetric distribution, the output pole tip of centre gripping cylinder 12 and the flute profile splint 11 fixed connection who corresponds.
The rotating plate mechanism 8 comprises a supporting beam 9, a fixing seat 21 is fixedly installed at the top of the supporting beam 9 through welding, the bottom of the fixing seat 21 is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the lower side of the base 1 through bolts, two movable vertical rods 15 are movably installed above the supporting beam 9, two rotating cylinders 20 are hinged to one sides of the movable vertical rods 15, bending plates 27 are fixedly installed at the top ends of output rods of the rotating cylinders 20, two connecting heads 23 are fixedly installed at the top of the movable vertical rods 15, the working plate 10 is installed between the two connecting heads 23, gears 24 and gears 25 are arranged on the inner sides of the connecting heads 23, gears 24 and gears 25 are distributed up and down, the gears 24 and the gears 25 are meshed, the gears 24 are rotatably installed on the inner sides of the connecting heads 23, and fixing rods 26 are fixedly installed on the gears 24, curved through groove 231 has been seted up to one side of connector 23, curved through groove 231 and the outside that extends to connector 23 are passed to the one end of dead lever 26, just dead lever 26 is located the one end in the connector 23 outside and the board 27 that bends rotates and is connected, two 25 fixed mounting of gear are on gear shaft 28, gear shaft 28 passes through the bearing and is connected with connector 23 rotation, the one end of gear shaft 28 extends to the outside of connector 23, just the one end fixed mounting of gear shaft 28 has square inserted bar 29, the slot has all been seted up to the both sides of working plate 10, square inserted bar 29 and slot looks adaptation.
The bottom fixed mounting of supporting beam 9 has two moving cylinder 16, two moving cylinder 16 is the symmetric distribution, the upper surface movable mounting of supporting beam 9 has two movable blocks 19, remove montant 15 fixed mounting at the upper surface of movable block 19, the equal fixed mounting in both sides of movable block 19 has connecting plate 18, two through connecting rod 17 fixed connection between the bottom of connecting plate 18, moving cylinder 16's output rod tip is articulated with corresponding connecting rod 17.
The upper surface of the supporting beam 9 is fixedly provided with two sliding rails II, the two sliding rails II are respectively positioned at two ends of the upper surface of the supporting beam 9, the bottom of the moving block 19 is fixedly provided with a sliding block II, and the moving block 19 is connected with the supporting beam 9 in a sliding mode through the sliding block II and the sliding rails II.
The belt conveyor 22 is located between the two mobile vertical bars 15.
Rotate on the mount pad 2 and install two belt pulleys, connect through belt transmission between two belt pulleys, fixed mounting has moving motor 13 on the mount pad 2, moving motor 13's output axle head and one of them belt pulley fixed connection, the one end of moving seat 3 and one side fixed connection of belt, the one end fixed mounting that removes seat 3 has two slider one, horizontal fixed mounting has two slide rail one on the mount pad 2, slider one and slide rail sliding connection.
A working method of wood processing remainder collecting equipment comprises the following steps:
before wood processing, a working plate 10 is in a horizontal state, a brush 5 is positioned above the edge of one side of the working plate 10, two clamping cylinders 12 are started, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to move oppositely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 clamp and fix two ends of the working plate 10, the wood is placed on the working plate 10 for processing, and processed excess materials are scattered on the working plate 10;
step two, after wood processing is finished, starting the moving seat 3, driving the brush mounting plate 4 to descend by the moving seat 3, driving the brush 5 to descend to enable the bottom of the brush 5 to be in close contact with the working plate 10, starting the moving motor 13, driving a belt to rotate by the moving motor 13 through two belt pulleys, driving the moving seat 3 to move by the belt, driving the brush 5 to move, driving the excess material on the upper surface of the working plate 10 to move by the brush 5, pushing the excess material to the edge of the upper surface of the working plate 10 for accumulation, driving the brush 5 to move repeatedly by the moving motor 13, and repeatedly cleaning the upper surface of the working plate 10 by the brush 5;
step three, starting the two clamping cylinders 12, driving the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to move reversely by the two clamping cylinders 12, loosening the working plate 10 by the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11, starting the two rotating cylinders 20, driving the gear I24 to rotate by the rotating cylinders 20 through the bending plate 27 and the fixing rod 26, driving the gear II 25 to rotate by the gear I24, driving the gear shaft 28 to rotate by the gear II 25, driving the working plate 10 to rotate by the gear shaft 28 through the square insertion rod 29, so that one side of the working plate 10, on which the excess material is accumulated, is turned downwards, the excess material on the working plate 10 slides onto the belt conveyor 22, and the belt conveyor 22 drives the excess material to move out of the base 1 for collection;
step four, when the working plate 10 is disassembled, the rotating cylinder 20 drives the working plate 10 to rotate to a horizontal state, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two trough-shaped clamping plates 11 to clamp and fix two ends of the working plate 10, the two moving cylinders 16 are started, the moving cylinders 16 drive the moving block 19 to move through the connecting rods 17 and the connecting plates 18, the moving block 19 drives the moving vertical rods 15 to move, so that the two moving vertical rods 15 move reversely, the two moving vertical rods 15 drive the two connecting heads 23 to move reversely, the two connecting heads 23 drive the two square inserting rods 29 to be separated from the inserting grooves on two sides of the working plate 10, the two lifting cylinders 30 are started, the lifting cylinders 30 drive the mounting frame 7 to ascend through the lifting connecting rods 31 and the longitudinal rods 32, and drives the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 and the working plate 10 to rise, and the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to loosen the working plate 10, so that the working plate 10 is dismounted for maintenance.
The invention starts the moving seat 3, the moving seat 3 drives the brush mounting plate 4 to descend and drives the brush 5 to descend, so that the bottom of the brush 5 is in close contact with the working plate 10, the moving motor 13 is started, the moving motor 13 drives the belt to rotate through the two belt pulleys, the belt drives the moving seat 3 to move and drives the brush 5 to move, the brush 5 drives the excess material on the upper surface of the working plate 10 to move and push the excess material to the edge of the upper surface of the working plate 10 to be stacked, the brush 5 is driven to move repeatedly through the moving motor 13, the brush 5 cleans the upper surface of the working plate 10 repeatedly, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to move reversely by starting the two clamping cylinders 12, the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 loosen the working plate 10, the two rotating cylinders 20 are started, the rotating cylinder 20 drives the gear I24 to rotate through the bending plate 27 and the fixing rod 26, the gear I24 drives the gear II 25 to rotate, the second gear 25 drives the gear shaft 28 to rotate, the gear shaft 28 drives the working plate 10 to rotate through the square insertion rod 29, one side of the working plate 10, on which excess materials are accumulated, is turned downwards, the excess material collecting device can intensively accumulate excess materials on the upper surface of the working plate 10, the excess materials on the working plate 10 slide onto the belt conveyor 22 through rotation of the working plate 10, the belt conveyor 22 drives the excess materials to move out of the base 1 for collection, the excess material collecting device can automatically collect the excess materials, the collecting speed is high, cleanliness of the working plate 10 is guaranteed, and the working efficiency is high;
according to the wood working plate, the two clamping cylinders 12 are started, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to move oppositely, the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 clamp and fix two ends of the working plate 10, wood is placed on the working plate 10 for processing, processed excess materials are scattered on the working plate 10, the excess material collecting equipment can ensure that the working plate 10 is in a stable state during working, and the installation frame 7 is arranged above the working plate 10, so that the installation frame 7 can play a role in shielding the excess materials, and the excess materials are prevented from being scattered everywhere;
the invention drives the working plate 10 to rotate to a horizontal state through the rotating cylinder 20, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to clamp and fix two ends of the working plate 10, the two moving cylinders 16 are started, the moving cylinders 16 drive the moving block 19 to move through the connecting rods 17 and the connecting plates 18, the moving block 19 drives the moving vertical rods 15 to move, so that the two moving vertical rods 15 move reversely, the two moving vertical rods 15 drive the two connectors 23 to move reversely, the two connectors 23 drive the two square insertion rods 29 to be separated from the slots on two sides of the working plate 10, the two lifting cylinders 30 are started, the lifting cylinders 30 drive the mounting frame 7 to lift through the lifting connecting rods 31 and the longitudinal rods 32, and drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 and the working plate 10 to lift, the two clamping cylinders 12 drive the two groove-shaped clamping plates 11 to release the working plate 10, the working plate 10 is dismounted, and the working plate 10 in the excess material collecting device is convenient to dismount, installation and maintenance of the work board 10 is facilitated.
The preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended to be illustrative only. The preferred embodiments are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise embodiments disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.