Fully automatic single station balancing machine

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC BALANCING MACHINE ADAPTED TO MEASURE THE UNBALANCE IN SUCCESSIVE LIKE ROTARY WORKPIECES AND TO CORRECT THEREFOR, COMPRISING WORKPIECE HANDLING APPARATUS ADAPTED TO LOAD SUCCESSIVE WORKPIECES INTO THE UNBALANCE MEASURING AND CORRECTING APPARATUS AND TO REMOVE SUCCESSIVE WORKPIECES THEREFROM, UNBALANCE MEASURING APPARATUS ADAPTED TO MEASURE THE UNBALANCE IN EACH SUCCESSIVE WORKPIECE AND TO DETERMINE THE ANGLE OF MAXIMUM UNBALANCE THEREIN, UNBALANCE CORRECTING APPARATUS, MEANS DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE TO AND CONTROLLED BY SAID MEASURING APPARATUS TO ADJUST SAID CORRECTING APPARATUS AND DETERMINE THE CORRECTION TO BE MADE IN EACH GIVEN WORKPIECE AT THE ANGLE OF MAXIMUM UNBALANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMOUNT OF UNBALANCE THEREIN AS DETERMINED BY SAID MEASURING APPARATUS, MEANS DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE TO SAID ANGLE DETERMINING APPARATUS TO ANGULARLY INDEX THE WORKPIECE RELATIVE TO SAID CORRECTION APARATUS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNBALANCE ANGLE DETERMINATION BY SAID UNBALANCE MEASURING AND DETERMINING APPARATUS, INDIVIDUAL ELECTRICAL POWER MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID APPARATUSES AND MEANS, AND INTERLOCKING MEANS IN THE CIRCUITS OF SAID INDIVIDUAL POWER MEANS TO EFFECT ACTUATION OF THE SAME IN AUTOMATIC CORRELATION IN SUCCESSIVE CYCLES FOR CORRESPONDING SUCCESSIVE WORKPIECES WITHOUT STOPPING BETWEEN WORKPIECES.