JP2804424B2 - Processing machine for long material - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a processing machine for continuously performing a series of various kinds of processing on a long sash type material made of extruded aluminum or the like. The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing a long-sized material capable of realizing processing and saving space.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a sash-shaped material is completed as a product by providing a notch for a connection at an end thereof or attaching a component such as a crescent to the product. A processing device and a component mounting device (hereinafter, simply referred to as a processing device) are installed, and various processing and component mounting are performed while a number of sash-shaped members are sequentially transferred to each processing device orthogonally to the transfer line. Automatically go.

Incidentally, the sash-shaped member is generally formed of a long hollow square member, and has a slit portion extending in the longitudinal direction on one surface thereof. In transferring the sash-shaped material, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 57-11803,
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-47089, etc., the sash shaped material is horizontally supported by the shape support portion of the transfer member and transferred. For this reason, the mold support surface of the support portion has a concave shape having a horizontal support surface that supports the lower surface of the mold material and a vertical support surface that supports both side surfaces of the mold material. In addition, since the mold support portion also has a function of positioning the transfer of the mold, the dimension between the vertical support surfaces is set to be substantially equal to the dimension between the side faces of the mold so as not to move unnecessarily within the support surface during transfer. I have.

[0004] The mold material, which is supported by the mold material supporting portion having such a structure and transferred to the processing device, is fixed after being positioned in the processing portion of the processing device, and various processes such as punching, pressing, and cutting are sequentially performed. Accordingly, in each of the processing apparatuses that perform the three-axis operation of X, Y, and Z, the processing plane including the two axes is a horizontal plane, and the operation of the remaining one axis is in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane.

[0005]

In such a conventional processing machine, first, regarding the support portion of the mold material transfer member, since the cross-sectional dimensions of the mold material are not uniform and are various, the structure of the support portion as described above is not sufficient. It is not possible to respond immediately to molds of different dimensions and, apart from requiring a large amount of processing, it is impossible to prepare mold supports with various dimensions, Since the setup change is complicated, it is extremely difficult to cope with high-mix low-volume production.

[0006] On the other hand, the processing apparatus has to be set up with its base surface horizontal and arranged in parallel on the same horizontal plane along the transfer line of the mold material, which hinders effective utilization in space.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a long-form material capable of promptly responding to the production of various kinds of building materials and the like in a small amount, and capable of minimizing the equipment area of a processing machine. To provide a processing machine.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object,
The present invention is a continuous processing machine that supports a long metal mold material in parallel at a predetermined interval and sequentially performs a series of machining while transferring intermittently to various processing parts. Form support has at least 90 ° apex
Wherein the various processed portions are provided with their base surfaces inclined at least in parallel with one of the mold support surfaces having a V-shaped cross section. The main component is a mold material processing machine.

Further, according to a preferred embodiment, there is provided an adjusting means for adjusting an inclination angle of the processing part, and the processing part is provided with a mold material gripping means.

[0010]

According to the present invention, the shape of the support member in the transfer line is a V-shaped support surface having an apex of 90 ° as described above. Is maintained and transported. The shape is 90 °
If there is no side surface adjacent to the above, if a jig for that is prepared, it is possible to cope with any shape.

Further, in order to enable efficient processing of the mold material transferred in the above-mentioned posture, in the present invention, the base surface of the machining device is installed in parallel with one of the mold material supporting surfaces. The installation in this way not only eliminates the need to correct the transfer posture of the mold material in the processing section, but also makes it possible to efficiently arrange the apparatus using the inclined arrangement of the processing apparatus. At the same time, various processes can be continuously performed.

[0012]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a plan view of an entire processing machine for sequentially processing sash-shaped members along a transfer line, and FIG. 2 is a front view of the processing machine. FIG.

The transfer mechanism of the sash-shaped member in this embodiment has substantially the same configuration as that of the transfer mechanism disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 57-47089. Therefore, the detailed contents of the transfer mechanism will be left to the description of the above-mentioned publication, and will be described only briefly in this specification. Further, the mold material transfer mechanism in the present invention is not limited to the illustrated example.
As disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 3113, it is possible to employ a mold transfer mechanism for intermittently driving an endless chain to which a mold support is attached at a predetermined interval, as well as other transfer mechanisms. is there.

In this embodiment, the transfer mechanism comprises two feed rods which can move forward and backward in a longitudinal direction on a base 1 provided along the feed direction of the sash-shaped material A, and can rotate about an axis. 2 are arranged in parallel. Feed rod 2
Are provided with a plurality of mold support portions 3 at predetermined intervals, and various processing apparatuses B and B ′ are provided on the side of the base 1 at the same intervals as the installation intervals of the mold support portions 3. is set up.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a transfer mechanism and a rotation mechanism of the feed rod 2. In FIGS. 1 to 3, a fluid pressure cylinder 4 is provided at the center of one end of the base 1 along the feed direction of the sash-shaped material A. At the same time, a first rack 5 is provided at the distal end of the telescopic rod of the fluid pressure cylinder 4, and a pinion 6 a of a rotating shaft 6 provided orthogonally to the rack 5 is engaged with the first rack 5. The advance / retreat range is regulated by a microswitch (not shown). Pinions 7 attached to both ends of the rotating shaft 6 are engaged with a second rack 8 which is installed in parallel with the first rack 5 and can move forward and backward. Second rack 8
The front end of each feed rod 2 is screwed into this end, and by adjusting the amount of screwing, a forward limit position and a retreat limit position of the feed rod 2, in particular, The advance / retreat position can be adjusted.

The end of the feed rod 2 is rotatably supported by a bearing so as to rotate and advance and retreat, and a gear 10 whose movement in the thrust direction is restricted is mounted between the bearings. This gear 1
Numeral 0 is slidably connected to a key groove 11 formed along the longitudinal direction of the feed rod 2 and having a length corresponding to the advance / retreat length of the rod 2. A mold support rod 12 is also provided outside each of the feed rods 2 in parallel with the rods 2, and an end of the rod 12 is rotatably supported by a bearing. Two gears 13, 13 ′ are provided on the same shape support rod 12.
The one gear 13 is rotatably loosely fitted to the rod 12, meshes with the gear 10 attached to the feed rod 2, and the other gear 13 ′ is keyed to the mold support rod 12. It is rotatable with the rod 12. The two gears 13 and 13 ′ are rotatably fitted to the third shaft 14 by two pinions 15 and 1.
The third and fourth racks 16, 1 are meshed with the 5 'and each pinion 15, 15' is individually movable forward and backward.
6 'are engaged. Each of these racks 16 and 16 'is attached to a telescopic rod of a hydraulic cylinder (not shown), and the range of movement thereof is regulated by a microswitch (not shown).

The mold support 3 is the most characteristic part of the present invention, and has a V-shaped mold support surface having an apex of at least 90 ° as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 2 and the shape support rod 12 are attached at the same pitch. This pitch is equal to the installation interval of the processing device as described above. The profile supporter 3 attached to the feed rod 2 places one end of a sash profile A sent orthogonally to the feed rod 2 and pushes forward with the feed rod 2. It is provided corresponding to the feed rods 2 and 2. Further, although the installation position of the mold support rod 12 is fixed, it is rotatable about the axis, and the mold support portion 3 moves the feed rod 2 when the feed rod 2 is at the forward limit position or the backward limit position. And corresponding to each of the processing devices B,
Confronting B '.

By the way, the sash type material A is most often formed in a shape in which at least two adjacent side surfaces form a right angle. However, as described above, the width dimension may not be uniform, and may be extremely large.Therefore, for small-scale processing, this type of continuous processing machine is not used, and processing is performed individually for each mold material. Is going.

The present invention focuses on the above-mentioned shape of the mold material. The shape of the mold material support portion 3 is a V-shaped support surface having a vertex of 90 ° as described above. Can be always supported and transported in the same posture. In addition, as shown in FIG. 7A, when the mold material A does not have 90 ° adjacent side surfaces, the jig 3 for that purpose is used.
If a is prepared, it is possible to cope with any shape.

According to the present invention, there is provided a molding material A transferred in the above-described posture.
Processing machines B,
One of the features is that the base surface of B 'is installed in parallel with one of the mold material supporting surfaces. The installation in this manner not only eliminates the need to correct the transfer posture of the mold material in the processing section, but also allows the processing apparatus B to be efficiently arranged as shown in, for example, FIGS. Thus, space can be saved.

FIGS. 4 and 5 are enlarged views of the installation of the processing apparatuses B and B 'in the present invention. FIG. 4 shows an example of the cutting apparatus B, and FIG. 'Is shown. In the example shown in FIG. 4, the drill head 31 can be controlled and moved on the base 32 in three directions of X, Y, and Z, and the base 32 supports one of the V-shaped support members 3. It is installed at an angle of 45 ° with respect to the horizontal plane of the bed 39 so as to be parallel to the surface. Further, according to the illustrated example, the cutting apparatus B is provided with a clamp unit 33 formed by an air cylinder for gripping the shape material A between the cutting apparatus B and the V-shaped support surface. Further, the press working apparatus B ′ shown in FIG.
This is a so-called die set in which the die 35 and the punch 36 are integrated, and the base 37 of the device B ′ is arranged on the supporting surface of one of the mold support portions 3 having a V-shaped cross section similarly to the cutting device B. Installed in parallel.

When processing the side surface of the molding material A having a cross-sectional shape as shown in FIG. It is not possible to perform the desired processing simply by setting it as described above. FIG. 6 shows that the base installation angle of the processing apparatus can be adjusted to cope with such side processing. According to the illustrated example, the base 32 is fixed to the installation angle adjustment rotary plate 38, and the angle adjustment rotary plate 38 rotates a desired angle with respect to the bed 39 by operating the operation dial 39a.

In the above-described configuration, a large number of sash-shaped members A for processing and mounting components are juxtaposed in a direction perpendicular to the feed direction on the mold-supplying table 27 installed near the rear end of the base 1. , And are sequentially pushed out to the end of a supply table (not shown) by an intermittent feeder (not shown). In this state, when the hydraulic cylinder (not shown) is extended and the feed rod 2 is rotated through the third rack 16, the pinion 15, and the gears 13 and 10, the mold support 3 is tilted from the upward position to a position rotated by a required angle. . At this time, a micro switch (not shown) is turned on to contract the hydraulic cylinder 4 that has been extended, and the first rack 5, the pinion 7, the shaft 6, the pinion 6a
Then, the feed rod 2 at the forward position is retracted via the second rack 8.

When the feed rod 2 is retracted, the rearmost mold support 3 moves to a position below the foremost sash mold A at the left and right ends of the supply table in an inclined state. At this time, a micro switch (not shown) is turned on, and then a timer (not shown) for notifying the end of processing or component mounting is turned off, and the hydraulic cylinder (not shown) is contracted to operate the third rack 1.
6, the feed rod 2 is reversely rotated via the pinion 15 and the gears 13 and 10, and the mold support 3 is returned to the upward position again. As a result, the sash-shaped material A positioned thereon is placed on the shape-material support portion 2.

In this state, a hydraulic cylinder (not shown) is extended to rotate the mold support rod 12 via the fourth rack 16 ', the pinion 15' and the gear 13 ', and the member receiving portion 7 is moved from the upward position. Tilt to the required angle. Thereafter, the fluid pressure cylinder 4 is extended and the feed rod 2 is advanced through the first rack 5, the pinion 7, the shaft 6, the pinion 6a, and the second rack 8.

When the feed rod 2 advances, the mold support 3
The sash-shaped material A placed at the position is moved forward and sent to the position of the shape-material support portion 3 of the shape-material support rod 12 which is tilted. Here, a fluid pressure cylinder (not shown) contracts to rotate the mold support rod 12 in the reverse direction via the fourth rack 16 ', the pinion 15' and the gear 13 ', so that the mold support portion 3 of the rod 12 faces upward. It returns to the position, thereby supporting the sash section material A.

In this manner, the sash-shaped material A is intermittently transferred forward and intermittently by a predetermined distance by the operation of the feed rod 2 and the shape-material support rod 12 as described above. Processing or mounting of parts is performed sequentially by the processing devices B and B 'set up in such a manner.

In order to position the sash type material A in the processing section of the processing apparatus B, B ', in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a positioning cylinder 28 is provided at a position facing each processing apparatus B, B' with the base 1 interposed therebetween. is set up. As for positioning of the sash mold material A, when the mold material A is transferred to a position corresponding to each of the processing devices B and B ', the positioning cylinder 28 is operated, and the same shape material A is extruded to each processing portion and positioned.
When the positioning is performed, the clamp units 33 of the processing apparatuses B and B 'operate to clamp the workpiece A.

FIGS. 8 to 10 show another example of the arrangement of the punching device which is a cutting device B which is controlled in three axes directions. According to these figures, the upper two side surfaces of the mold A are sequentially punched. 2 to be installed at an angle of 45 ° to the base 1
At the same time, the tools of the piercing machines are arranged facing each other at a predetermined interval with a crossing angle of 90 °.
45 ° with respect to the base 1 so that the lower two sides of the
The tools of two perforators installed at an angle are arranged opposite to each other at a predetermined interval with a crossing angle of 90 °. In addition, above the processing position of each mold material A,
Positioning cylinders 29 are disposed in parallel with the mold members A, respectively.
As a moves back and forth along the cylinder 29, the mold material A is pushed to a predetermined processing position and positioned. Further, a mold return cylinder 30 is provided with the rod end face facing the mold end face positioned at the processing section of each punching device. As described above, when the machining is completed after being positioned at the machining section, the mold return cylinder 30 is operated to push the mold A back to the original transfer position.

According to this embodiment, since the processing apparatus B is installed by effectively utilizing the installation space, space saving can be realized, and the installation mode of the other processing apparatus B 'can be made the same. , All processing becomes possible with this processing machine,
Moreover, as described above, the V-shaped support portion can be used not only for all kinds of molds, but also for changing various molds without special setup change. Enables production. In addition,
The installation mode of the processing device is not limited to the illustrated example,
Various embodiments are possible.

[0031]

As is clear from the above description, according to the machine for processing a long material according to the present invention, since the material support portion at the time of the material transfer is a V-shaped surface having a vertex of 90 °, this type of different shape is used. Most of the molds with the above can be easily handled without the necessity of special setup change, and at the same time, according to the present invention, each processing machine is installed at an angle in accordance with the transfer posture of the same mold, so that This makes it possible to make effective use of the installation space of the machine, to save space, and to make it possible to continuously perform all types of processing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a processing machine showing a main part of a representative embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a main part showing a partial cross section of an example of a feed rod transfer mechanism and a rotation mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged perspective view showing an example of a die cutting section according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view showing an example of the press section.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view showing a modified example of a die cutting portion according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing an example of a specially shaped mold member.

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a front view of the same.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of disposing a processing machine according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Sash type material B, B 'Processing equipment 1 Base 2 Feed rod 3 Mold material support 3a Jig 4 Fluid pressure cylinder 5 First rack 6 Rotary shaft 6a, 7,15,15' Pinion 8 Second rack 9 Nut 10, 13, 13 'Gear 11 Key groove 12 Mold support rod 14 Shaft 16, 16' Third and fourth racks 28, 29 Positioning cylinder 29a Extruded piece 30 Mold return cylinder 31 Drill head 32, 37 Base 33 Clamp unit 34 Mold 35 Die 36 Punch 38 Angle adjustment turntable 39 Bed 39a Operation dial

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A continuous processing machine that supports a long metal mold material (A) in a parallel state at a predetermined interval and sequentially performs a series of machining while transferring intermittently to various processing sections. The mold support portion (3) at the time of transferring the mold material has a V-shaped mold support surface having an apex of at least 90 °, and the various processed portions (B, B ′) have at least a V-shaped base surface. A processing machine for a long-shaped member, wherein the machine is installed so as to be inclined in parallel with one of the cross-section supporting surfaces. 2. A machine for processing a long material according to claim 1, further comprising adjusting means (38, 39, 39a) for adjusting an inclination angle of said processing portion (B, B '). 3. A mold gripping means (33) is provided on the processing portion (B, B ').
2. The machine for processing a long material according to claim 1, comprising: