Dear Charlie,
Thanks for the note. I'd more than appreciate it if you could send me some pictures. However, I need to say that I need a rotation more than 360 degrees. The vacuum cups in the end of the system should be rotating even infinite.
Btw, can you send pictures through eng-tips.com...
Thanks very much for the answers.
I don't think it'll need large amonut of vacuum since the plastic body will be around 1 pound. I found out that those can pick a body up to 7 lbs. So that may be the solution.
I also checked out rotary unions which is exactly what I was thinking :)
In this...
Hey there!
I need to design a mechanism that picks up a plastic spherical body and then rotates it over a desired angle.
I'm thinking of a pneumatic system with a vacuum cup on the end of it to pick the body up and an electric motor to make the rotation. But the problem is that the angle of...
