TOOL-LESS PICK TIP ASSEMBLY, HOUSING, AND APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD

Disclosed are a pick tip apparatus method interchanging pick tip assemblies within the same. The pick tip apparatus includes a housing having a housing channel. The apparatus further includes a fitting connected to the housing channel. The fitting is configured to accept an external vacuum source fo...

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Hauptverfasser: Stuckey, Larry, Lewis, John, Murach, John, Blumenshine, Kent, Chalfant, Jason, Scholefield, Colin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed are a pick tip apparatus method interchanging pick tip assemblies within the same. The pick tip apparatus includes a housing having a housing channel. The apparatus further includes a fitting connected to the housing channel. The fitting is configured to accept an external vacuum source for applying a vacuum to the housing channel. The apparatus further includes a magnet and a pick tip assembly. The pick tip assembly is releasably held within the housing channel magnetically by the magnet. The pick tip assembly includes a vacuum cup and a pick tip body. The pick tip body has a pick tip body channel in communication with the housing channel and configured to apply the vacuum from the housing channel to the vacuum cup.