Design of an automated production system for manufacturing paint-brush ferrules

Abstract

In the brush-making industry, ferrule processing is an important link in the production of paint brushes, and the hemming of ferrule is one of the most complex processes in ferrule processing. The production of paint-brush ferrule mainly relies on manual or semi-mechanized processes at present, which have a low production efficiency and poor product quality. In order to realize the automated production of ferrules, an automated production system of ferrules, using pneumatic technology and PLC control technology, is designed, and the hemming system is developed in this paper. First, the production process of ferrules is introduced, and the overall scheme of the production system is proposed. Then, the mechanical system, pneumatic system and control system are designed in detail. Next, the stability of the plunger chip and the adjustable mould of the production system are analyzed via the ANSYS Workbench. Eventually, the hemming system prototype is developed, and hemming tests are carried out. The results show that the effect of ferrule hemming is good, and the system meets design requirements.

Keywords

• automated production system
• paint-brush ferrule
• hemming process
• adjustable mould
• stability analysis
• finite element