CN114873192B - Automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials, which comprises the steps of outputting the metal materials from a hopper one by one in a magnetic attraction mode; simultaneously, the metal materials in the hopper are stirred under the action of magnetic force so as to prevent the metal materials from accumulating; after the metal materials are output from the hopper, the metal materials are conveyed forwards through the conveying channel; the conveying channel is divided into more than two stages of conveying units, and the metal materials are sequentially conveyed forwards through the conveying units at all stages from one side connected with the hopper to the other side; the conveying speed of the former-stage conveying unit is higher than that of the latter-stage conveying unit; the distance between the front metal material and the rear metal material is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front conveying unit and the rear conveying unit; after the interval between the front metal material and the rear metal material is enlarged, the feeding quantity of the metal material is automatically detected. The method can effectively and smoothly realize the feeding of various metal materials, saves labor cost, improves feeding efficiency, and can accurately count the feeding quantity of the metal materials.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of feeding, in particular to an automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials.
Background
Various types of hardware, such as screws, nuts, brackets, three-in-one connectors, handles, hinges, and the like, are required for furniture assembly. Furniture enterprises can pack the small hardware into a plurality of material bags according to the matching and types of products; for example, a plurality of screws and nuts are packaged in one material bag, and a plurality of three-in-one connecting pieces are packaged in one material bag; the method is convenient for packing, checking and searching hardware; and for part of large-size hardware, whether classification packaging is performed or not is not limited. However, at present, no automatic feeding scheme is adopted for the material bags and other metal materials, but a manual feeding mode is adopted, so that the problems of high labor cost, low feeding efficiency, difficulty in avoiding mistakes and the like exist.
Therefore, there is a need to design a solution for feeding and counting metal materials.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects and shortcomings in the prior art, the invention aims to provide an automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials; the method can effectively and smoothly realize the feeding of various metal materials, saves labor cost, improves feeding efficiency, and can accurately count the feeding quantity of the metal materials.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a metal material automatic counting and feeding method is characterized in that: outputting the metal materials from the hopper one by one in a magnetic attraction mode; simultaneously, the metal materials in the hopper are stirred under the action of magnetic force so as to prevent the metal materials from accumulating;
after the metal materials are output from the hopper, the metal materials are conveyed forwards through the conveying channel; the conveying channel is divided into more than two stages of conveying units, and the metal materials are sequentially conveyed forwards through the conveying units at all stages from one side connected with the hopper to the other side; the conveying speed of the former-stage conveying unit is higher than that of the latter-stage conveying unit; the distance between the front metal material and the rear metal material is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front conveying unit and the rear conveying unit; after the interval between the front metal material and the rear metal material is enlarged, the feeding quantity of the metal material is automatically detected.
According to the method, the metal materials can be fed and the feeding quantity is counted; the magnetic feeding mode is adopted, and the stirring is arranged to prevent the metal materials from being backlogged and blocked mutually, so that the feeding of various metal materials can be effectively and smoothly realized, the labor cost is saved, and the feeding efficiency is improved; the metal materials can be accelerated to be conveyed after reaching the front conveying unit, and the metal materials at the rear side of the front conveying unit are also positioned at the rear conveying unit with a lower conveying speed, so that the distance between the front and rear metal materials is increased, and the technical problems that the quantity statistics or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear metal materials are solved.
Preferably, the rear end of the preceding stage conveying unit is located opposite to the front end of the following stage conveying unit and below the front end of the following stage conveying unit. After the metal materials move to the front end of the rear-stage conveying unit, the metal materials slide down from the rear-stage conveying unit to the front-stage conveying unit by means of self gravity, so that the distance between the front metal materials and the rear metal materials is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front-stage conveying unit and the rear-stage conveying unit.
Preferably, a middle partition plate is arranged in the hopper, so that the hopper is divided into a buffer space and a feeding space which are distributed up and down; a sliding channel is reserved between the middle partition plate and the hopper at one side close to the conveying unit; a feeding mechanism is arranged on one side of the hopper, and a stirring mechanism is arranged on the other side of the hopper; the middle partition plate is provided with a feeding opening at the joint of one side close to the feeding mechanism and the hopper;
the feeding mechanism adsorbs metal materials in the feeding space one by one under the action of magnetic force, attaches the metal materials to the side wall of the hopper and moves, passes through the feeding opening, and then outputs the hopper;
the stirring mechanism adsorbs metal materials on one side, close to the feeding opening, of the feeding space through magnetic force and moves towards the middle partition plate, and after the metal materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate, the metal materials break away from the adsorption of the stirring mechanism and slide back to the bottom of the feeding space to realize stirring; the stirring mechanism adsorbs and moves the metal materials on the middle partition plate one by one into the feeding space under the action of magnetic force so as to realize gradual replenishment of the metal materials in the feeding space.
After the metal materials are poured into the hopper, part of the metal materials slide on the middle partition plate and then fall into the feeding space through the sliding-in channel, and part of the metal materials stay above the middle partition plate due to the action of friction force; the feeding mechanism adsorbs and laminates the metal material in the material loading space on the hopper lateral wall one by utilizing magnetic force, along with the drive of feeding mechanism, the metal material that is adsorbed by magnetic force passes through the material loading opening from the material loading space, later exports the hopper, realizes the metal material and feeds by one.
The stirring mechanism has the functions that: 1. the stirring mechanism is used for stirring the metal materials in the feeding space to one side of the feeding opening under the action of magnetic force, the metal materials close to one side of the feeding opening can be adsorbed and rotated towards the middle partition plate, after the metal materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate, the metal materials break away from the magnetic force adsorption of the stirring mechanism and slide back to the bottom of the feeding space, so that the metal materials close to one side of the feeding opening are prevented from being mutually blocked due to backlogged, and the feeding magnet is easier to successfully adsorb and drive the metal materials to move; 2. the stirring mechanism can adsorb and drive the metal materials on the middle partition plate into the feeding space part by part, and can gradually supplement the metal materials into the feeding space while the feeding mechanism takes away the metal materials from the feeding space, so that the quantity of the metal materials in the feeding space is ensured not to be excessive and the metal materials are not broken.
Preferably, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism comprise a magnetic disk body and a magnetic disk rotation module; in the feeding mechanism, a magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of a hopper through a magnetic disk rotation module, and a plurality of feeding magnets are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; in the stirring mechanism, a magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged on the other side of a hopper through a magnetic disk rotating module, and a plurality of stirring magnets are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; the feeding opening is positioned on the horizontal projection of the feeding magnet rotating path. The feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism can effectively realize the adsorption and movement of metal materials.
Preferably, all the feeding magnets are distributed on the circumference one; the center of the circle one is positioned on the rotating shaft of the magnetic disk body of the feeding mechanism.
Preferably, the partition gradually slopes downward as it extends from an end remote from the delivery unit to an end near the delivery unit.
Preferably, the middle partition plate is provided with a coaming plate at the outer side of the feeding opening. The enclosing plate can separate the space for feeding and temporarily storing the metal materials from the feeding opening in space, so that the metal materials are prevented from being collided with the metal materials adsorbed on the feeding mechanism to affect each other when the metal materials are poured into the hopper.
Preferably, the inside of the hopper is in a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped. The bottom of the wedge-shaped space is narrow, the distance between the metal material and the side wall of the hopper can be shortened, and the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism can be ensured to smoothly adsorb the metal material. The bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped, metal materials can be concentrated at the bottom of the wedge-shaped space, and the metal materials can be adsorbed and moved to the bottom of the touch middle partition plate by the stirring mechanism and then slide to the bottom of the wedge-shaped space along the arc.
Preferably, the counting module is arranged at the front end of the foremost conveying unit to automatically detect the feeding quantity of the metal materials; each stage of conveying units conveys the metal materials until the metal material feeding quantity=feeding target quantity detected by the counting module; when the metal material feeding quantity=the feeding target quantity, the conveying units at all levels pause, the metal material feeding quantity detected by the counting module is cleared, and the setting of the next feeding target quantity is waited. The scheme can effectively realize the statistics of the metal material quantity and the conveying according to the set feeding target quantity.
Preferably, a storage chute for temporarily storing metal materials is arranged between the hopper and the conveying channel; when the number of the metal materials in the material storage chute is smaller than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism start to work; when the number of the metal materials in the material storage chute is more than or equal to the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism pause working.
The design can suspend the work of the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism under the condition that the metal materials are sufficient, can save energy consumption, and can also avoid the influence on the arrangement state of the metal materials which are fed one by one because the metal materials are not timely conveyed to the conveying channel and accumulated in the material storage chute. The acquisition of the metal material quantity in the storage chute can be realized by arranging photoelectric sensing modules at the front end and the rear end of the storage chute.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages and beneficial effects:
1. according to the method, the metal materials can be fed and the feeding quantity is counted; the magnetic feeding mode is adopted, and the stirring is arranged to prevent the metal materials from being backlogged and blocked mutually, so that the feeding of various metal materials can be effectively and smoothly realized, the labor cost is saved, and the feeding efficiency is improved;
2. the method of the invention uses the conveying speed difference of the front and rear two-stage conveying units to enlarge the distance between the front and rear metal materials, thereby solving the technical problems that the quantity statistics cannot be carried out or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear metal materials;
3. the method can ensure that the metal materials near one side of the feeding opening are not mutually stuck due to backlog together, and the metal materials are easier to successfully adsorb and drive to be fed; the metal materials on the middle partition plate can be adsorbed one by one and driven into the feeding space, and the feeding mechanism can gradually supplement the metal materials into the feeding space while taking the metal materials from the feeding space, so that the quantity of the metal materials in the feeding space is ensured not to be excessive and the metal materials are not broken;
4. the method can effectively realize the statistics of the quantity of the metal materials and the transportation according to the set feeding target quantity;
5. the method can suspend the work of the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism under the condition that the metal materials in the material storage chute are sufficient, saves energy consumption, and can also avoid the influence on the arrangement state of feeding the metal materials one by one because the metal materials are accumulated in the material storage chute because the metal materials are not timely sent to the conveying channel.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hopper, a storage chute, a conveying channel and a counting module in an automatic counting and feeding method of metal materials according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hopper, a storage chute, a conveying channel and a counting module in the automatic counting and feeding method of metal materials according to the second embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hopper in the automatic counting and feeding method of the metal materials of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of a hopper in the automatic counting and feeding method of the metal materials of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a conveying channel in the automatic metal material counting and feeding method of the present invention;
the feeding device comprises a hopper 1, a middle partition plate 11, a sliding channel 12, a feeding port 13, a feeding space 14, a feeding opening 15, a coaming 16, a buffer space 17, a feeding mechanism 2, a magnetic disk body 21, a feeding magnet 22, a magnetic disk rotation module 23, a stirring mechanism 3, a magnetic disk body 31, a stirring magnet 32, a magnetic disk rotation module 33, a storage chute 4, a positioning strip 41, a conveying channel 5, a conveying unit 51, a counting module 6 and a metal material 7.
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In the automatic counting and feeding method for the metal materials, as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the metal materials are output from a hopper 1 one by one in a magnetic attraction mode; simultaneously, the metal materials in the hopper 1 are stirred through magnetic force so as to prevent the metal materials from accumulating.
The middle partition plate 11 is arranged in the hopper 1, so that the hopper 1 is divided into a buffer space 17 and a feeding space 14 which are distributed up and down; on the side close to the conveying unit 51, a slide-in channel 12 is left between the partition 11 and the hopper 1; a feeding mechanism 2 is arranged on one side of the hopper 1, and a stirring mechanism 3 is arranged on the other side of the hopper 1; the middle baffle plate 11 is provided with a feeding opening 15 at the joint of the middle baffle plate and the hopper 1 near one side of the feeding mechanism 2;
the feeding mechanism 2 adsorbs the metal materials in the feeding space 14 one by one under the action of magnetic force, and the metal materials are attached to the side wall of the hopper 1 to move, pass through the feeding opening 15, and then are output from the hopper 1;
the stirring mechanism 3 adsorbs metal materials on one side, close to the feeding opening 15, of the feeding space 14 through magnetic force and moves towards the middle partition plate 11, and after the metal materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate 11, the metal materials break away from the adsorption of the stirring mechanism 3 and slide back to the bottom of the feeding space 14 to realize stirring; the stirring mechanism 3 also adsorbs the metal materials on the middle partition plate 11 one by one through the magnetic force effect and moves the metal materials into the feeding space 14 so as to realize the gradual replenishment of the metal materials in the feeding space 14.
The feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 comprise magnetic disk bodies 21/31 and magnetic disk rotation modules 23/33; in the feeding mechanism 2, a magnetic disk body 21 is rotatably arranged at one side of a hopper 1 through a magnetic disk rotation module 23, and a plurality of feeding magnets 22 are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body 21 close to the hopper 1; in the stirring mechanism 3, a magnetic disk body 31 is rotatably arranged on the other side of the hopper 1 through a magnetic disk rotation module 33, and a plurality of stirring magnets 32 are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body 31 close to the hopper 1; the feed opening 15 is located on the horizontal projection of the rotational path of the feed magnet 22. The feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 can effectively realize the adsorption and movement of metal materials. All the feeding magnets 22 are preferably distributed on the circumference one; the center of the circle one is positioned on the rotating shaft of the magnetic disk body of the feeding mechanism 2.
After the metal materials are poured into the hopper 1, part of the metal materials slide on the middle partition plate 11 and then fall into the feeding space 14 through the sliding-in channel 12, and part of the metal materials stay above the middle partition plate 11 due to friction force; the feeding mechanism 2 adsorbs and attaches the metal material in the feeding space 14 on the side wall of the hopper 1 one by utilizing the magnetic force effect, and along with the driving of the feeding mechanism 2, the metal material adsorbed by the magnetic force passes through the feeding opening 15 from the feeding space 14, and then the metal material is output from the hopper 1, so that the metal material is fed one by one.
The stirring mechanism 3 has the functions of: 1. the stirring mechanism 3 stirs the metal materials in the feeding space 14 to one side of the feeding opening 15 under the action of magnetic force, and can absorb the metal materials close to one side of the feeding opening 15 and rotate towards the middle partition plate 11, after the metal materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate 11, the metal materials slip back to the bottom of the feeding space 14 after being separated from the magnetic absorption of the stirring mechanism 3, so that the metal materials close to one side of the feeding opening 15 are ensured not to be accumulated together and are mutually blocked, and the feeding magnet 22 is easier to successfully absorb and drive the metal materials to move; 2. the stirring mechanism 3 can adsorb and drive the metal materials on the middle partition plate 11 into the feeding space 14 part by part, and can gradually supplement the metal materials into the feeding space 14 while the feeding mechanism 2 takes the metal materials out of the feeding space 14, so that the quantity of the metal materials in the feeding space 14 is ensured not to be excessive and the gear is not broken.
The intermediate partition 11 gradually slopes downward as it extends from the end away from the conveying unit 51 to the end closer to the conveying unit 51. The middle partition plate 11 is provided with a coaming 16 outside the feeding opening 15. The coaming 16 can separate the space for feeding and temporarily storing the metal materials on the middle partition plate 11 from the feeding opening 15, so that the metal materials are prevented from being mutually influenced by collision with the metal materials adsorbed on the feeding mechanism 2 when the metal materials are poured into the hopper 1.
The inside of the hopper 1 preferably forms a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped. The bottom of the wedge-shaped space is narrow, so that the distance between the metal material and the side wall of the hopper 1 can be shortened, and the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 can be ensured to smoothly adsorb the metal material. The bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped, metal materials can be concentrated at the bottom of the wedge-shaped space, and the metal materials can be adsorbed and moved to the bottom of the touch middle partition plate 11 by the stirring mechanism 3 and then slide to the bottom of the wedge-shaped space along the arc.
After the metal materials are output from the hopper 1, the metal materials are conveyed forwards through the conveying channel 5; the conveying channel 5 is divided into more than two stages of conveying units 51, and the metal materials are sequentially conveyed forward through each stage of conveying units 51 from one side connected with the hopper 1 to the other side. The arrow direction in fig. 1 is the conveying direction; along the arrow direction, the front conveying unit is positioned at the front, and the rear conveying unit is positioned at the rear. The conveying speed of the preceding stage conveying unit 51 is greater than that of the following stage conveying unit 51; the distance between the front metal material and the rear metal material is enlarged by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front conveying unit 51 and the rear conveying unit 51; after the interval between the front metal material and the rear metal material is enlarged, the feeding quantity of the metal material is automatically detected.
The rear end of the preceding stage conveying unit 51 is located opposite to the front end of the following stage conveying unit 51 and below the front end of the following stage conveying unit 51. After the metal materials move to the front end of the rear-stage conveying unit 51, the metal materials slide from the rear-stage conveying unit 51 to the front-stage conveying unit 51 by means of self gravity, so that the distance between the front metal materials and the rear metal materials is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front-stage conveying unit 51 and the rear-stage conveying unit 51.
The counting module 6 is arranged at the front end of the foremost conveying unit 51 to automatically detect the feeding quantity of the metal materials; each stage of conveying units conveys the metal materials until the metal material feeding quantity=feeding target quantity detected by the counting module; when the metal material feeding quantity=the feeding target quantity, the conveying units at all levels pause, the metal material feeding quantity detected by the counting module is cleared, and the setting of the next feeding target quantity is waited. The scheme can effectively realize the statistics of the metal material quantity and the conveying according to the set feeding target quantity. The counting module 6 may employ an existing sensing module, such as a photo-electric sensing module.
According to the method, the metal materials can be fed and the feeding quantity is counted; the magnetic feeding mode is adopted, and the stirring is arranged to prevent the metal materials from being backlogged and blocked mutually, so that the feeding of various metal materials can be effectively and smoothly realized, the labor cost is saved, and the feeding efficiency is improved; the metal materials can be utilized to accelerate the conveying after reaching the front-stage conveying unit 51, and the metal materials at the rear side of the front-stage conveying unit are also positioned at the rear-stage conveying unit 51 with a lower conveying speed, so that the distance between the front and rear metal materials is increased, and the technical problems that the quantity statistics or the quantity statistics is easy to make mistakes due to the lack of the distance between the front and rear metal materials are solved.
A material storage chute 4 for temporarily storing metal materials is arranged between the hopper 1 and the conveying channel 5; when the quantity of the metal materials in the material storage chute 4 is less than the set material storage quantity, the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 start to work; when the number of the metal materials in the material storage chute 4 is more than or equal to the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 pause working.
The design can suspend the work of the feeding mechanism 2 and the stirring mechanism 3 under the condition that the metal materials are sufficient, can save energy consumption, and can also avoid the influence on the arrangement state of the metal materials which are fed one by one because the metal materials are not timely sent to the conveying channel 5 and piled up in the material storage chute 4. The acquisition of the metal material quantity in the material storage chute 4 can be realized by arranging photoelectric sensing modules at the front end and the rear end of the material storage chute 4. The positioning strips 41 can be arranged in the material storage chute 4 to form a positioning channel with the width matched with the width of the material package, so that the material package can be conveniently arranged on the material storage chute 4.
The above examples are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above examples, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications that do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be made in the equivalent manner, and the embodiments are included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A metal material automatic counting and feeding method is characterized in that: outputting the metal materials from the hopper one by one in a magnetic attraction mode; simultaneously, the metal materials in the hopper are stirred under the action of magnetic force so as to prevent the metal materials from accumulating;
after the metal materials are output from the hopper, the metal materials are conveyed forwards through the conveying channel; the conveying channel is divided into more than two stages of conveying units, and the metal materials are sequentially conveyed forwards through the conveying units at all stages from one side connected with the hopper to the other side; the conveying speed of the former-stage conveying unit is higher than that of the latter-stage conveying unit; the distance between the front metal material and the rear metal material is increased by utilizing the conveying speed difference of the front conveying unit and the rear conveying unit; after the interval between the front metal material and the rear metal material is enlarged, the feeding quantity of the metal material is automatically detected;
a middle partition plate is arranged in the hopper, so that the hopper is divided into a buffer space and a feeding space which are distributed up and down; a sliding channel is reserved between the middle partition plate and the hopper at one side close to the conveying unit; a feeding mechanism is arranged on one side of the hopper, and a stirring mechanism is arranged on the other side of the hopper; the middle partition plate is provided with a feeding opening at the joint of one side close to the feeding mechanism and the hopper;
the feeding mechanism adsorbs metal materials in the feeding space one by one under the action of magnetic force, attaches the metal materials to the side wall of the hopper and moves, passes through the feeding opening, and then outputs the hopper;
the stirring mechanism adsorbs metal materials on one side, close to the feeding opening, of the feeding space through magnetic force and moves towards the middle partition plate, and after the metal materials touch the bottom of the middle partition plate, the metal materials break away from the adsorption of the stirring mechanism and slide back to the bottom of the feeding space to realize stirring; the stirring mechanism adsorbs the metal materials on the middle partition plate one by one through the magnetic force effect and moves the metal materials into the feeding space so as to realize gradual replenishment of the metal materials in the feeding space;
the middle partition plate gradually inclines downwards when extending from one end far away from the conveying unit to one end close to the conveying unit;
the middle partition plate is provided with a coaming plate at the outer side of the feeding opening.
2. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the rear end of the front-stage conveying unit is opposite to the front end of the rear-stage conveying unit and is positioned below the front end of the rear-stage conveying unit.
3. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism comprise a magnetic disk body and a magnetic disk rotation module; in the feeding mechanism, a magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged at one side of a hopper through a magnetic disk rotation module, and a plurality of feeding magnets are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; in the stirring mechanism, a magnetic disk body is rotatably arranged on the other side of a hopper through a magnetic disk rotating module, and a plurality of stirring magnets are arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk body, which is close to the hopper; the feeding opening is positioned on the horizontal projection of the feeding magnet rotating path.
4. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to claim 3, wherein: all feeding magnets are distributed on the circumference one; the center of the circle one is positioned on the rotating shaft of the magnetic disk body of the feeding mechanism.
5. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the inside of the hopper is a wedge-shaped space with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part; the bottom of the wedge-shaped space is arc-shaped.
6. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the front end of the forefront conveying unit is provided with a counting module to automatically detect the feeding quantity of the metal materials; each stage of conveying units conveys the metal materials until the metal material feeding quantity=feeding target quantity detected by the counting module; when the metal material feeding quantity=the feeding target quantity, the conveying units at all levels pause, the metal material feeding quantity detected by the counting module is cleared, and the setting of the next feeding target quantity is waited.
7. The automatic counting and feeding method for metal materials according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: a material storage chute for temporarily storing metal materials is arranged between the hopper and the conveying channel; when the number of the metal materials in the material storage chute is smaller than the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism start to work; when the number of the metal materials in the material storage chute is more than or equal to the set material storage number, the feeding mechanism and the stirring mechanism pause working.
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