Gripping Device for Textile Materials

Gripping and manipulating non-rigid and porous objects is an important challenge for manufacturing. Now there are many problems in handling textile materials from a stack or oriented in space. Therefore, the paper presents the design of an improved Bernoulli gripping device with an anti-vibration insert. The inventive gripper structure allows gripping and manipulating textile materials and partially eliminates the shortcomings present in the classic design of the gripper. A technique for theoretical modeling of a gripping device for textile materials has been developed. This made it possible to determine the rational parameters of the gripping device in terms of maximum attraction. Experimental study of power characteristics of gripping device for textile materials has been carried out. The choice of the thickness of the anti-vibration insert made by the 3D printing method is justified. The advantages of the design include enabling gripping of textile materials of manipulation at different position, orientation and from a longer distance. Influence of supply pressure on the beginning of object vibration is analyzed. Parameters of anti-vibration insert are defined for the operation of gripper without object vibration.