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Originally Posted by dodar
How do you keep them in your hopper? do you have an unloader kinda like 1625?
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Gravity?

I'm not intimately familiar with how 1625's machine functions, but our hopper is a cavity and the rear of the robot that is lined with a length of rip-stop nylon fabric. That fabric forms a 'U', with one end fixed to the front of the robot and the other wrapped around a spool driven by two CIMs. We spool the fabric up rapidly and that 'U' becomes a '_' or, really, something closer to a '/'
It's not dissimilar to 20's robot or to any of the machines that lift the balls up from below -- 111 and 1280, for example.