US Patent:
20120064804, Mar 15, 2012
Inventors:
Jeremy Paul Hammond - Portage MI, US
Kyle James Elmblad - Portage MI, US
Stuart William Quick - Mattawan MI, US
International Classification:
B24B 1/00
Abstract:
A finisher arrangement for surface finishing of parts, including a bowl-type centrifugal finishing device for agitating a mixture of parts and treating media within the bowl, and a handler for loading and unloading the parts/media to and from the bowl, respectively. The finishing device and handler are positioned sidewardly adjacent but on opposite sides of a rotary drive unit which defines a transfer horizontal drive axis. Arm linkages couple each of the finishing device and handler to the drive unit so that each is independently vertically swingable about the drive axis into respective loading and unloading positions.