The goal of this project was to design a better way of transporting an extruded foam product from a reel to a load head on an assembly. The problem was broken into five parts: splitting, indexing, cutting, merging and inserting. The splitting and cutting steps were already solved by the sponsor, so the team created solutions for the remaining three processes. They were solved in two subassemblies: a grabbing and indexing mechanism that provided movement to the product on a track, and a shuttle mechanism that merged the two lines of product and inserted them into the load head.

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Creator

• Friedman, Laura B
• Faulkner, Megan Ann
• Moakley, John T
• Galucki, Stephen J

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030411-135604

Advisor

• Norton, Robert L.

Year

• 2011

Sponsor

• Gillette

Date created

• 2011-03-04

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright