Patent ID: 6256861
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
An automatic hard diskdrive read/write arm fabrication system comprising:a plurality of rotary tables arranged in a line, said rotary tables each having a center shaft;conveyer means arranged at one side of said rotary tables for carrying shaped material blocks to said rotary tables for processing into finished hard diskdrive read/write arms;a set of processing implements disposed adjacent to said rotary tables, said processing implements process said shaped material blocks into finished hard diskdrive read/write arms; anda plurality of transferring tool means to transfer said shaped material blocks from said conveyer means to said rotary tables for processing by said processing implements. and to transfer processed shaped material blocks from said rotary tables to said conveyer means;wherein said rotary tables each comprise a plurality of platforms equiangularly arranged around the respective center shaft, a plurality of workpiece holders respectively provided at said platform for holding shaped material blocks for processing by said processing implements, and a plurality of reciprocating rods radially extended from the respective center shaft toward said platforms and reciprocated by compressed air source means between a first position where said reciprocating rods are pressed on a respective shaped material block at the workpiece holder of each of said platforms and a second position where said reciprocating rods are moved away from said platforms.