Semi automatic wine corking machine

[vwnotrunning]

As someone else mentioned, use limit switches to determine end of stroke and return cycle fir the cork insertion. That will allow one push button to start cycle, the cork advances into bottle up to limit switch setting then return cycle would raise actuator. Still no hands needed after pressing the start button.

Are you looking to manually load the corks or make that automated?

 

[blakester]

As someone else mentioned, use limit switches to determine end of stroke and return cycle fir the cork insertion. That will allow one push button to start cycle, the cork advances into bottle up to limit switch setting then return cycle would raise actuator. Still no hands needed after pressing the start button.

Are you looking to manually load the corks or make that automated?

So. that makes sense for sure. As far as actually wiring it I have looked around and it SEEMS easy enough, but I feel like I'm missing something when I see how people have wired it up. It seems like the limit switches are toggle style, and each click reverses the polarity of the overall circuit so the direction keeps switching. The part i can't get my head around is how to insert the starting, stoping of it. Once it starts going won't it just cycle? Or am I misinterpreting this entirely.

 

[BHD]

one I looked at used a gear motor and a crank for the moving process, one could easily put a switch that would undo the circuit on a motor and the start button would just by pass the start switch and as soon as it move past the switch cam, it would run until it come around to that point,

I know what electronics do, but do not know how to design them. (I would think a timer possibly or relay that would work much like the stop switch on the cam but off the cylinder or what ever else you use to drive the unit,

 

[fixit]

Have a look at this
Floor Standing Wine Bottle Corking Machine Corker New - Home Brew Homebrew | eBay
i hadn't considered the compressed air in the bottle neck before

 

[blakester]

Yeah initially I tried to do up a few designs that basically converts one of those into what I'm looking for but it' seemed more complicated than it's worth. Compressed air is not so much of an issue, the floor corkers get it in there anyways, just not quite as much. And the corks breathe.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I would use a latching relay circuit. Here's an example:
"How to build a latching relay circuit"

It's just three components, two switches and a relay.

That circuit has two push-buttons, one for on and one for off. The off switch is your limit switch. If your actuator is spring loaded it just returns when power is removed. That's drop-dead simple.

 

[blakester]

Alright, I have tried to incorporate some of what been talked about, I don't have spring loaded Actuators so that's out, but I think it put me along the right path. So here is what I have. A momentary pushbutton to flip a latching relay which energizes the circuit, when the actuator extends, it hits a limit switch, which disables the circuit, flips the initial latching relay back, which because the other limit switch is in the normally closed position now, reverses the circuit until it gets all the way back, and again disables the circuit. Anyways, schematic below, hopefully this is what I'm looking for.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I think you're getting close, I have a couple of thoughts:
1. You can use a single DPDT relay instead of two SPDT's to reverse polarity to the motor to reverse direction. Here's a diagram: http://www.1728.org/dpdt.gif

2. If I understand what you want, you want to have three switches: on, reverse, and off. Pressing the on button turns on the machine and starts it pushing. When it reaches the limit of its travel it contacts the reverse switch, which energizes the reversing relay and makes the machine pull back. When it reaches the limit in the other direction it contacts the off switch which turns the circuit off. The on and reverse switches normally open. You need a latch relay for on, a latch relay for reverse, and a DPDT relay for reverse. For the off switch you want a sPST normally closed switch, pushing it kills the power to both the on and reverse relays and stops the circuit.

The on switch has to be DPDT because when the circuit starts, the off switch is on from the last cycle. So it has to work that the circuit will start with on and off switches both pushed at the same time. So the on switch has to both start the circuit and bypass the off. But the on and off are at different points in the circuit, so they have to be isolated. Thus you need a switch with two throws.

I'll try to draw something up later.

 

[CNC Dan]

I think you're getting close, I have a couple of thoughts:
1. You can use a single DPDT relay instead of two SPDT's to reverse polarity to the motor to reverse direction. Here's a diagram: http://www.1728.org/dpdt.gif

2. If I understand what you want, you want to have three switches: on, reverse, and off. Pressing the on button turns on the machine and starts it pushing. When it reaches the limit of its travel it contacts the reverse switch, which energizes the reversing relay and makes the machine pull back. When it reaches the limit in the other direction it contacts the off switch which turns the circuit off. The on and reverse switches normally open. You need a latch relay for on, a latch relay for reverse, and a DPDT relay for reverse. For the off switch you want a sPST normally closed switch, pushing it kills the power to both the on and reverse relays and stops the circuit.

The on switch has to be DPDT because when the circuit starts, the off switch is on from the last cycle. So it has to work that the circuit will start with on and off switches both pushed at the same time. So the on switch has to both start the circuit and bypass the off. But the on and off are at different points in the circuit, so they have to be isolated. Thus you need a switch with two throws.

I'll try to draw something up later.

That's the way to do it.

 

[RobertBrown]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't all the really good wine come in a box?


That's what I thought a heard JDgreen227 tell us.....

Hope this helps.