Approach: Proposed Solution

The design of the device was conceived while working for Paragon Films. The engineers at the plant had been working to come up with a design similar to the already existing Feeder of one of the production lines. To make a new Core Feeder, a complete different design had to be made but with similar parts and smaller available space. The production line without the Feeder system does Hand Films, which are significantly smaller than the Machine Films.

The design will contain three different components: core bin/reservoir, core bucket lift, and a conveyor belt system. The core bin has to have an area large enough to fit a pallet of cores, about 525 cores. The core lift will lift the cores up in core buckets to the conveyor belt which will then transfer the cores to a tilting conveyor that will fill the bed.