Substrate breaker
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1. A substrate breaker comprising:
- a) elevated chip breaker means for breaking a lead chip from a stick of chips;
b) stick breaker means located below the chip breaker means for breaking a stick of chips from a substrate plate;
c) a stick feed path extending upwardly from the stick breaker means to the chip breaker means; and
d) stick feed means for moving a stick of chips up the path.
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Abstract
A substrate breaker positively feeds substrate plates to a stick breaker where the sticks are broken from the plate. The sticks are fed upwardly to an elevated chip breaker where chips are broken from the sticks.
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1. A substrate breaker comprising:
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a) elevated chip breaker means for breaking a lead chip from a stick of chips; b) stick breaker means located below the chip breaker means for breaking a stick of chips from a substrate plate; c) a stick feed path extending upwardly from the stick breaker means to the chip breaker means; and d) stick feed means for moving a stick of chips up the path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A substrate breaker including a stick assembly having an upwardly extending stick feed path with opposed stick grooves for receiving the edges of a stick;
- a chip breaker at the upper end of the feed path;
a stick breaker at the lower end of the feed path having a plate groove for receiving a lead edge of a stick, the plate groove forming a downward extension of one of the path grooves;
a plate assembly including a plate feed path extending toward the stick breaker and a pair of opposed plate feed grooves for receiving the edges of a ceramic chip plate, a plate feeder for moving a plate along the plate feed path to position the lead edge of a stick in the plate groove;
a stick feeder for engaging the end of a stick near the stick breaker and moving such stick into and along the stick feed path to position successive lead chips in the chip breaker. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- a chip breaker at the upper end of the feed path;
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16. The method of breaking a substrate plate into individual substrate chips comprising the steps of:
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a) successively breaking lead sticks from the plate, each stick including an integral row of substrate chips; b) allowing plate debris formed by breaking to gravity fall away from the sticks; c) moving each lead stick upwardly from the remainder of the substrate plate; and d) breaking individual chips from an elevated end of each stick. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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