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Mosaic tiles are an important part of tiles production, and these tiles are building materials for possessing permanent and effective properties to embellish the environment. In recent years, the industry of mosaic tiles faces some predicaments due to rising labor costs in Taiwan. In order to reduce human resources, a mosaic tile puzzle machine is designed and fabricated for decreasing labor costs by an automatic production. Firstly, the proposed figures are transferred to bitmap format by an image processing software, then the serial number of mosaic tiles is sorted and designated by color codes of three-primary colours. A numeral matrix corresponding to color codes is adopted to form the mosaic tile puzzle. Furthermore, the integrated machine consists of two sets of automatic storage system, a mosaic title puzzle machine and a belt conveyor. The automatic storage system is used to supply and store the trays for the mosaic title puzzle machine to produce a larger area picture composed by mosaic titles. The belt conveyor is used to connect the mosaic title puzzle machine with two sets of automatic storage system. Moreover, the mosaic title puzzle machine consists of a pneumatic system, an apparatus of rotating multiple vacuum chucks, mosaic title feeding devices and a two-axis slider. The apparatus of rotating multiple vacuum chucks can reduce the working time for sucking and putting mosaic titles. The control system is constructed with LabVIEW program, human-computer interfaces and hardware(NI PXIe -7350 and NI PXIe-6368 DAQ). The working time approaches to 10 minutes for reaching to the workload of a tray with 196 mosaic titles.
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