This project involved designing and building an automatic raw stock feeding system to load and unload a single long, unfired (green) ceramic piece into a grinder. Ceramic only gets its strength when it is fired in a kiln, so ceramic parts in their green state are very fragile and need to be handled with kid gloves...A slight drop could break the part. This feeder had a gravity fed tray and a pneumatic cylinder with a rod to push the ceramic piece into the machine.