Fig 1.
A: Common grafting clip; B: PE Butterfly-Shaped grafting clip; C: Grafting clip blank wire.
Fig 2.
1: Cutting cylinder; 2: Clamping pneumatic claw; 3: Pushing cylinder; 4: Slide rail; 5: Pulley; 6: Grafting clip blank wire; 7: Lifting cylinder; 8: Feeding pneumatic claw; 9: Cutter holder.
Fig 3.
1: Cutting cylinder; 2: Throttle valve; 3: Cutter holder; 4: Sk5 utility blade; 5: Cutting workbench; 6: Blade guard.
Fig 4.
Blade and grafting clip dimensions.
1: Blade; 2: Grafting Clip.
Table 1.
Experimental factors with encoding.
Fig 5.
Experimental materials and data.
A: Electronic universal testing machine; B: Tensile specimen; C: Stress-Strain curve.
Table 2.
Parameters of the material model.
Fig 6.
A: Blade mesh partitioning; B: Grafting clip mesh partitioning.
Table 3.
Physical properties of blade and grafting clip.
Table 4.
Mesh convergence results.
Fig 7.
A: Blade stress; B: Clip strain.
Table 5.
Experimental protocol and results.
Table 6.
Experimental protocol and results.
Fig 8.
A: Effect of the interaction between cutting angle and cutting speed on blade stress; B: Effect of the interaction between cutting angle and cutting speed on clip strain.
Fig 9.
Degree of deformation in grafting clip and cutting effect at different cutting angles.
Table 7.
Parameters at different cutting angles.
Fig 10.
Clip-feeding mechanism and grafting machine.
A: Prototype of cutting-type clip-feeding mechanism; B: Jiafute JFT-A1400T semi-automatic grafting machine; C: Vibrating screen clip-feeding mechanism.
Table 8.
Clip-feeding mechanism comparison chart.
Fig 11.
Prototype of the clip-type grafting machine.
Table 9.
Comparative analysis of prototype machines, manual, and commercial devices.