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This document provides instructions and diagrams for several pneumatic circuits to automate production processes. It describes using pneumatics to feed workpieces, empty a dump hopper, open a fire door, and drill holes. It includes diagrams of circuits and asks the reader to name components, complete circuits, add time delays, and calculate required air pressure.

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Tutorial 1

This document provides instructions and diagrams for several pneumatic circuits to automate production processes. It describes using pneumatics to feed workpieces, empty a dump hopper, open a fire door, and drill holes. It includes diagrams of circuits and asks the reader to name components, complete circuits, add time delays, and calculate required air pressure.

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Narendra Chavda
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TUTORIAL 1

1. In a production process as in figure below, workpieces are to be fed into a


jig from a gravity magazine by using a double acting cylinder. Feeding takes
place when a push button is pressed, and return automatically to its start
position after the workpiece has reached the jig position.

2. Bulk loose material is to be emptied from a dump hopper. By pressing a


push button P1, the dump hopper is tilted and the bulk loose materials are
emptied out. By pressing another push button P2, the dump hopper is
returned to its initial position.
3. A heavy fire door is to be opened or closed by a double acting cylinder. The
opening and closing signals are to be given by a lever operated hand valve.

4. Describe some of the advantages of using pneumatics.

5. A small company that makes spice racks wants to automate some of its
production. To begin with, a drilling operation is to be controlled by a
pneumatic cylinder. An operator will start the sequence and then the drill
will be lowered automatically into the wood. Once the hole has been drilled
to the correct depth, the cylinder should automatically instroke ready for
the process to start again.

A layout of all the components needed is shown with the piping missing.
(a) Complete the diagram.
(b) Name each component.
(c) The cylinder outstrokes far too quickly and the drill bits keep breaking. Alter the circuit
so that the cylinder outstrokes slowly.

6. Sand is fed into a hopper from above. When the hopper is full, the operator presses the
button and a double-acting cylinder slides open the door. This lets the sand fall into a
wagon underneath. The operator now presses the other push button, but there must be
a short delay before the hopper door closes to ensure that all the sand has emptied out.
(a)Give three components are needed to create a time delay.
(b) Insert these components into the circuit diagram. Build and test your solution to
ensure that it works properly.

7. Wonderful Worktop is a company that manufactures worktops for kitchens. The


worktops are made from Formica sheets glued onto chipboard. A pneumatically
controlled clamp holds down the glued sheet for 10 seconds before releasing it
automatically. Design a pneumatic circuit to this problem.

8. Hot plastic sheets are moulded into cups using a former attached to the end of a
double-acting cylinder. An operator starts the process by pressing a button, but the
cylinder should instroke automatically. Before this happen, there should be a delay to
allow the plastic sheet to cool and set in shape. A partly completed diagram is shown.
(a) Complete the missing piping and component.
(b) State the full name of each of the pneumatic component
(c) The cylinder instroke so quickly that sometimes the cup gets stuck onto the former.
Name the component that could be used to reduce the speed of the cylinder.
(d) Describe two ways of changing the length of time delay.
(e) If requires a force of 16 N to press the plastic sheet into shape, What air pressure is
required if the diameter of the piston is 10 mm.

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