BE1025067B1 - Method of making brushes and brush making machine - Google Patents

Abstract

For precise feeding of anchor wire (5) to the cutting device (3) and the stuffing tool (2) of the brush manufacturing machine (1), the main drive device (6) of the brush manufacturing machine (1) by the wire buffer (13) and the wire drawing device (12) of the Supply roll (4) force and / or pulse decoupled. For this purpose, it is provided that the anchor wire (5) in the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer 13 loosely, that is freely movable, arranged and transported through the receiving space (14). In this case, the wire section (15) of the anchor wire (5) within the receiving space (14) assumes a curved or curved or loop-shaped course. This course is freely variable depending on the degree of filling of the wire buffer (13) within the receiving space (14). Since the anchor wire (5) within the receiving space (14) by any other guide element, such as a dancer roll or other leadership, brought into a certain position or in such a position, the removal of the anchor wire (5) from the wire store (13) largely carried out without force or resistance.

Description

(30) Priority information:

01/09/2016 DE 10 2016 010 521.6 (73) Owner:

ZAHORANSKYAG 79674, TODTNAU Germany (72) Inventor:

SUMMER Guido 79677 WEMBACH Germany

COUNT Stephan

79199 KIRCHZARTEN Germany

GOLDMANN Philipp 79677 WEMBACH Germany (54) Process for the production of brushes and brush manufacturing machine (57) For the precise feeding of anchor wire (5) to the cutting device (3) and the tamping tool (2) of the brush manufacturing machine (1), the main drive device (6) becomes the Brush manufacturing machine (1) by means of the wire buffer (13) and the wire take-off device (12) from the supply roll (4) decoupled from force and / or pulse. For this purpose, it is provided that the armature wire (5) in the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer 13 is arranged loosely, that is to say freely, and transported through the receiving space (14). The wire section (15) of the anchor wire (5) takes on a curved or curved or loop-shaped course within the receiving space (14). This course can be changed freely depending on the degree of filling of the wire buffer (13) within the receiving space (14). Since the anchor wire (5) is not brought into or held in a specific position by any other guide element, such as a dancer roller or other guide roller, within the receiving space (14), the removal of the anchor wire (5) from the wire store (13) largely without force or resistance.

BELGIAN INVENTION PATENT

FÖD Wirtschaft, K.M.B., Mittelstand & publication number: 1025067

Energy filing number: BE2017 / 5542

Office of Intellectual Property Boarding. Classification: A46D 3/04 A46D 3/05

Date of issue: 19/10/2018

The Minister for Enterprise

Due to the Paris Treaty of March 20, 1883 for the protection of industrial property;

Introduced under the Act of March 28, 1984 on Inventive Patents, Article 22, for applications prior to September 22, 2014;

Based on Title I “Invention Patents” of Book XI of the Economic Code, Article XI.24, introduced for applications from September 22, 2014;

Based on the royal decree of December 2, 1986 on the registration, granting and maintenance of patents for invention, Article 28;

Recorded on 04/08/2017 at the Intellectual Property Office based on the protocol.

Considering that for patent applications that fall within the scope of Title 1, Book XI, of the Economic Code, in accordance with Article XI.19, Section 4, second paragraph, of the Economic Code, if the patent application is the subject of a search report in which a lack of unity of invention within the meaning of paragraph 1 is mentioned, and if the applicant does not limit his application and does not file a divisional application in accordance with the search report, the granted patent will be limited to the claims for which the search report was created.

DECIDES:

Article 1. - An invention patent is granted to:

ZAHORANSKYAG, Anton-Zahoransky-Str. L, 79674 TODTNAU Germany;

represented by :

GEVERS PATENTS, Holidaystraat 5, 1831, DIEGEM;

for a period of 20 years, subject to the payment of the annual patent fees mentioned in Article XI.48, §1 of the Economic Code, for: processes for the production of brushes and brush manufacturing machines.

INVENTOR:

SUMMER Guido, Im Trudmättle 7, 79677, WEMBACH;

COUNT Stephan, Am Keltenbuck 10, 79199, KIRCHZARTEN;

GOLDMANN Philipp, Im Trudmättle 1, 79677, WEMBACH;

PRIORITIES) :

01/09/2016 DE 10 2016 010 521.6;

SEPARATION:

Partial application of the previous application:

Filing date of the previous application:

Article 2. - This patent is granted without any prior examination of the patentability of the invention, without guaranteeing the merit of the invention or the accuracy of its description, and at the own risk of the patent applicant (s).

Brussels, 19/10/2018,

In special representation:

BE2017 / 5542

Method of making brushes and brush making machine

The invention relates to a method for producing brushes, wherein the anchor wire is drawn off from a supply roll and fed to a cutting device, after which wire anchors are cut to length from the anchor wire and the wire anchors are then stuffed into bundle holes of the brush together with bristle bundles for fastening the bristle bundles to a brush.

The invention also relates to a

Brush manufacturing machine with a tamping tool for plugging and fastening bristle bundles in bundle holes of a brush by means of wire anchors, with a cutting device for cutting the wire anchors to length from an anchor wire fed to the cutting device, with at least one supply roll with a supply of anchor wire and with one

Main drive device for feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device and the tamping tool.

Such methods and devices are known from the prior art

Technology in different

Embodiments known.

From the publication DE 41 14

For example, 297 C2 is one

Brush manufacturing machine of the aforementioned

Kind known in which one

Clamping device with several

Deflection rollers and a dancer roller arranged between a supply roller and a cutting device

Bristle bundles have been around since

Decades by means of

Wire anchors fixed in bundle holes by brushes.

Especially when manufacturing smaller brushes or

Toothbrushes wish to provide the wire anchors with an anchor length that is as precise as possible and subject to only small tolerances. The aim is to ensure that the manufacturing process is as precise and reproducible as possible

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Allow the bristle bundles to be anchored in the bundle holes of brushes.

If the wire anchor used is too long, it can be difficult to plug in the bristle bundles. If an excessively long wire anchor is used, for example, an adjacent bundle hole can be damaged. Furthermore, a tamping force that has to be applied by the tamping tool can increase if the anchor length is too long, which then may make an emergency shutdown of the brush manufacturing machine necessary.

If wire anchors with an anchor length that is too short are used to fasten the bristle bundles in the bundle holes, the required minimum pull-out force of the bristle bundles attached to the brush by means of the wire anchors can be undershot. Avoid falling below the minimum pull-out force of the bristle bundles, however, since if the pull-out force is too low, bristle bundles together with the wire anchors can detach from the brush when the brush is used as intended and, if the brush is a toothbrush, from one Users of the brush could be swallowed.

Up to now it has been known to directly pull off the anchor wire from the supply roll, which can also be referred to as a coil, and to feed it to the cutting device or the tamping tool. Such one

Brush manufacturing machine shows for example DE 29 03 399

Al. The

Feed the anchor wire immediately after

Subtract the

Anchor wire from the

However, supply roll or spool can be problematic.

Since one with

Anchor wire assembled

Stock roll a high

Weight of several kilograms, for example of 12 kg, and

BE2017 / 5542 has a comparatively large diameter, for example 300 mm, can when pulling the anchor wire from the

Supply roll high

Moments of inertia to be overcome. In addition, those that occur change

Moments of inertia

Dependence on that on the

Stock roll existing

Remaining stock of anchor wire.

Since the

Feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device and the

Deduction of the wire anchors at

Stuffing the wire anchors together with the bristle bundles in a clocked manner by the tamping tool, i.e. not continuously, the supply roll must be accelerated strongly every time and in very short time intervals, which

Inertial forces caused by the feed direction of the

Oppose anchor wire and the cut wire anchor.

It was also observed that supply rolls or spools cannot be unwound with a constant force. This can happen if the anchor wire is wound onto the supply reel or spool with too little precision or quality. In addition, when the anchor wire is unwound from the supply roll, short-term loops can occur, which in turn can lead to voltage peaks when the anchor wire is unwound from the supply roll or spool.

The aforementioned disadvantageous aspects do not allow the unwinding of the anchor wire from the supply roll and can cause fluctuating anchor lengths that must be avoided.

Since the

Shortening cycle times of the tamping tools in the manufacture of brushes is necessary

Anchor wire getting shorter and shorter

Cycles of

Feed the cutting device and the tamping tool. This has the consequence that when pulling or

Unwinding the

Anchor wire from the supply roll occurring increasingly precise manufacturing

Inertia forces of the wire anchors

Affect BE2017 / 5542. In addition, there is a need for ever more precise anchor lengths, since the brushes or toothbrushes are made from increasingly demanding, for example harder or more brittle, materials, which also require tight manufacturing tolerances for the wire anchors.

The object of the invention is therefore to provide a method and a brush production machine of the type mentioned at the outset, with which the disadvantages mentioned above can be avoided and which allow a more precise production and provision of wire anchors for fastening bristle bundles in bundle holes of a brush.

This object is achieved in the method mentioned at the outset by the means and features of the independent claim directed to the method for producing brushes. In particular, a method of the type mentioned at the outset is proposed to achieve the object, which is characterized in that the wire buffer has two spaced-apart side walls, which laterally delimit the receiving space and between which a wire section of the anchor wire is arranged to be freely movable, and in that the anchor wire follows the withdrawal from the supply roll and before being fed to the cutting device, a receiving space of a wire buffer is fed, wherein the anchor wire is freely movable within the receiving space and with a curved or curved, depending on the degree of filling of the wire buffer up to a tensioned state of the anchor wire freely variable course is transported through the recording room.

In this way, a force and / or pulse decoupling of the main drive device responsible for feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device can be achieved from the supply roll for the anchor wire.

According to the anchor wire for feeding to the

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Cutting device and the tamping tool are no longer removed directly from the supply roll, but first between the

Supply roll and one

Main drive device removed wire buffer arranged.

Since the

Anchor wire is freely movable within the receiving space and with a curved or curved, depending on the

Filling levels of the wire buffer up to a tight one

State of the

Anchor wire freely changeable

Course through the

Recording room is transported within the

Receiving space located wire section of the supplied

Anchor wire is unloaded up to its own weight, that of

The total mass to be accelerated when feeding anchor wire is reduced to a minimum.

So only the mass of the inside of the

Recording room of the

Wire buffer located wire section of the anchor wire during the cyclical feeding of the anchor wire to the

Cutting device and the darning tool are accelerated.

The method according to the invention is thus compared to that known from the prior art

Processes are not only more energy efficient, but also allow a more precise one

Feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device and thus a more precise manufacture of wire anchors, since the

Resistance and moments of inertia to be overcome are reduced to a minimum.

It can

Anchor wire it may be advantageous if the course of the inside of the receiving space by removing

Anchor wire from that

Wire buffer can be changed without load and / or without resistance and / or without force.

It can be useful if the anchor wire is force-free and / or less

Tension than in that

Upstream or downstream wire buffer

Transport sections transported through the recording room

BE2017 / 5542 will. This means that no further guide means, such as rollers, dancer rollers or dancer rollers or the like, have to be accelerated when the anchor wire is removed from the wire buffer within the receiving space of the wire buffer.

In other words, it means that the inside

Receiving space of the wire buffer held wire section of the

Anchor wire without further

Leadership means or

Clamping devices arranged within the receiving space and can be transported through this. The

The wire section is placed loosely in the receiving space and freely movable through the

Recording room transported. Only a means to

Remove the

Anchor wire from the recording room of the

Wire buffers and

Means for feeding the anchor wire into the

Recording room of the

Wire buffers define fixed points that the anchor wire must pass on its way from the supply roll to the cutting device and the tamping tool.

Just take one in between.

can the wire section within the receiving space influenced by its internal stress arrangement

The means can include a main drive device assigned to the cutting device and one between the

Main drive device and the supply roll arranged

Be wire puller.

It can be advantageous if the anchor wire, in particular at the beginning of the method, for example by an installer, is arranged in the form of a loop in the receiving space and is finally moved with a loop-shaped, variable course through the receiving space of the wire buffer.

The anchor wire can be removed in a clocked manner from the wire buffer and fed to the cutting device and the stuffing tool in a clocked manner. For permanent maintenance of the decoupling of the feed of the anchor wire to the cutting device and the

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Stuffing tool from the removal or unwinding or unwinding of the anchor wire from the supply reel or spool with the help of the wire buffer, it can be advantageous if the degree of filling of the wire buffer, i.e. in particular a length of a wire section located within the receiving space of the wire buffer, is monitored by means of a detection device

and / or is determined. Here can Anchor wire in the Wire buffers promoted becomes, if the degree of filling one defined Minimum fill level reached or falls below. In this context it can be beneficial a

Specify or set the conveying speed of the anchor wire into the wire buffer depending on the filling level of the wire buffer using a control unit. In this way, it is possible to introduce more anchor wire into the wire buffer in a shorter time if the fill level is close to the minimum fill level or reaches or falls below this.

It is possible to use an anchor wire that is round or rounded in cross-section. Such a round anchor wire regularly has a diameter that is uniform over the longitudinal extension of the anchor wire. However, an embodiment is preferred in which a flat or rectangular wire is used as the anchor wire. This flat or rectangular wire can have the standard dimensions and have an anchor width of 1.40 mm and an anchor thickness of 0.25 mm, the anchor width being understood to mean the width of the rectangular wire, preferably measured over the broad side of its cross-sectional shape, measured transverse to the longitudinal extension of the anchor wire is.

The aforementioned task is also solved with a brush manufacturing machine of the type mentioned, which the means and features of the

Brush making machine directed independent claim

BE2017 / 5542.

In particular, a brush manufacturing machine of the type mentioned at the outset is proposed to achieve the object, which is characterized in that the brush manufacturing machine has a wire take-off device arranged downstream of the at least one supply roll in the conveying direction of the anchor wire and a wire buffer arranged between the wire take-off device and the main drive device with a receiving space for receiving a Has wire section. In this recording room is the

Section of wire with a variable, curved or curved movable

Course and can be freely arranged within the receiving space and is arranged when using the device. It should be mentioned that the invention

Brush manufacturing machine in particular for

Implementation of the previously described

Procedure can be set up.

The receiving space is designed in such a way that the wire section can move freely within the limits specified by the receiving space and can assume a variable, curved or curved course. This is particularly dependent on the fill level of the wire buffer.

In this way, a brush manufacturing machine is created, which enables a force decoupling and / or pulse decoupling of the main drive device from the at least one supply roll of the brush manufacturing machine.

No guide means for guiding the anchor wire or the wire section are provided in the receiving space of the wire buffer. Only the mass of the anchor wire inside the receiving space must be in addition to that

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Mass of drive means of the main drive device are accelerated during the cyclical removal of anchor wire from the receiving space.

In the context of the brush manufacturing machine according to the invention, a freely movable arrangement of the wire section within the receiving space of the wire buffer is understood to mean one in which the wire section is loose, i.e. unloaded, for example freely suspended, by other guiding means, such as rollers or dancer rollers or the like, within the receiving space of the wire buffer is arranged.

When the anchor wire is removed from the wire buffer or the anchor wire is fed into the wire buffer, the course of the

Change wire section freely within the receiving space, with a maximum

Spread of

Wire section within the receiving space from walls of the

Recording space can be limited.

A

Arrangement of the

Anchor wire where the previously described and desired

There is no longer any force and / or pulse decoupling if the course of the wire section is within the receiving space of the

Wire buffers up to a tensioned

State of the

Wire section between the

Main drive device and the

Wire take-off device changes. Then it is

Wire buffer completely emptied and the

Wire section no longer along a curved or curved course in the

Receiving space of the wire buffer arranged. It can be advantageous if the course of the

Wire section within the receiving space can be changed with resistance and / or the wire section can be shortened with resistance

Resistance-free in this context means that the wire section at the intended

Use of

Brush making machine within the

Receiving space of the wire buffer experiences no external voltage and is only exposed to the voltage due to

BE2017 / 5542 affects its own weight.

In this way, the overall accelerated mass when the armature wire is removed from the wire buffer in cycles is reduced to a minimum. This is not the case with brush manufacturing machines known from the prior art. Overall, the energy efficiency of the brush manufacturing machine can thus be increased and, due to the minimal mass being accelerated, the best possible shortening of cycle times when the wire anchors are cut to length from the anchor wire and when the wire anchors are plugged into the bundle holes.

To monitor a fill level of the wire buffer and / or a fill level of the

Being able to determine wire buffers can

Brush making machine advantageously one

Defection device with at least one sensor for this monitoring and / or preferably non-contact

Determination is established. In this way it is possible to replenish

Anchor wire in the wire buffer in

To control and / or regulate the degree of filling of the wire buffer.

According to the invention, it is also provided that the wire buffer has two side walls which are spaced apart from one another, in particular oriented in the conveying direction of the anchor wire through the wire buffer. These side walls limit the

Recording room on the side.

Between the two side walls is or is then

Wire section arranged freely movable.

In this context, it can be advantageous if em

Distance this

Sidewalls larger than one

Diameter of the anchor wire or larger than the anchor width of the anchor wire. In this way it is prevented that the wire section of the

Anchor wire in the receiving space between the side walls

BE2017 / 5542 jammed and a feed of anchor wire to the

Downstream wire buffer cutter is blocked.

A particularly good guidance of the anchor wire in the

Recording space of the wire buffer can be achieved if the

Distance of

Side walls between 0.05 mm and 3 mm, in particular between 1.0 mm and 3 mm, larger than em

Diameter or larger than the anchor width of the fed

Anchor wire is. In particular in connection with the previously mentioned detection device for monitoring and determining the degree of filling of the wire buffer, the previously described ones

Distances between the two side walls may be advantageous.

When the armature wire is removed from the wire buffer in cycles, the armature wire can be caused to oscillate or vibrate. This can result in the armature wire moving laterally and breaking out laterally from a detection area of the detection device. If this happens, the anchor wire can no longer be reliably detected by the detection device. Basically, the distance between the side walls of the wire buffer can also increase with increasing thickness of the supplied anchor wire.

To process different anchor wires with different

Diameters or different

Allowing anchor widths can be advantageous if the

Distance of

Sidewalls of the wire buffer to each other in

Depending on a diameter or depending on the

Anchor width of the supplied anchor wire is adjustable.

To limit the mobility of the wire section within the receiving space of the wire buffer, it can be advantageous if the wire buffer has two spaced-apart,

BE2017 / 5542 in particular transversely or at right angles to the conveying direction of the

Has anchor wire oriented through the wire buffer, end walls. These end walls can side walls of the

Connect wire buffers together. Between

The wire section can move freely around the end walls of the wire buffer, which limit the receiving space at the end. A distance between the two end walls can be a multiple of a distance between the side walls.

The distance between the two end walls can also be chosen so that the wire section is the two

End walls in

Use position contacted. To this

Wise one

Vibration of the

Wire section in

Recording room of the

Wire buffers can be largely avoided. Such one

Vibration of the

Wire section can be cycled through the

Remove the

Anchor wire occur from the wire buffer.

Especially with the

Use of optical

Detection devices, especially those that have light barriers, can have an excessive vibration amplitude

Wire section in the receiving space of the wire buffer to a constant activation and cause. This can be the

Degree of filling of the wire buffer

Deactivation of light barriers

Accuracy of monitoring the impair and should therefore be avoided.

One, for example the aforementioned, detection device of the brush manufacturing machine for monitoring and / or determining the degree of filling of the wire buffer can be designed as an optical detection device with at least one light barrier. This detection device can preferably comprise at least two or three or four or five or even more such light barriers. The light barriers can particularly preferably be evenly spaced from one another and adjacent to the receiving space

BE2017 / 5542 the wire buffer.

In this case, light-emitting elements and / or light-receiving elements of the at least one light barrier can be recessed in a wall of the wire buffer, for example in an end wall of the wire buffer, and can be arranged at a distance from the receiving space of the wire buffer. This has the advantage that the wire section located in the receiving space of the wire buffer then does not make direct contact with the light-transmitting and light-receiving elements of the at least one light barrier of the optical detection device and contacts them in front

Damage and / or before

Pollution can be protected. When using several, in particular aligned,

Light barriers of a detection device can be used together

Form light curtains, one

Covers a large part or even the entire receiving space of the wire buffer and thus enables the course of the wire section to be monitored in a particularly reliable manner within the receiving space of the wire buffer.

It can be advantageous in this

Be related if at least one light barrier

Detection for

Device is aligned parallel to the side walls of the wire buffer.

The brush manufacturing machine, in particular the detection device for monitoring and determining the fill level or fill level of the wire buffer, can have at least one, preferably optical fill level sensor for monitoring and / or determining the fill level of the wire buffer. This at least one fill level sensor can be directed, for example, from above or from below to an open narrow side of the receptacle space of the wire buffer to monitor the receptacle space and the degree of filling of the wire buffer. If the at least one level sensor in particular

BE2017 / 5542 is directed vertically from above onto the recording room, it is well protected against possible contamination. If the level sensor is arranged below the receiving space and is directed towards the receiving space from below, the level sensor can possibly be mounted better and more easily.

The wire take-off device can comprise a belt and at least one take-off wheel. The belt can be a toothed belt. However, it is also possible for the wire take-off device to have at least two pull-off wheels which interact with one another. The anchor wire can then be drawn off from the at least one supply roll and fed to the wire buffer both with a belt and with a pull-off wheel assigned to the belt and with two interacting pull-off wheels.

For tensioning the belt, the wire pull-off device can also comprise a tensioning wheel which is assigned to the belt and whose distance from at least one other belt wheel, via which the belt can be guided, can be changed. The tensioning wheel can also be driven by means of a corresponding tensioning drive.

It is possible that the belt has a trigger drive with which the belt and / or the at least one trigger wheel, which is assigned to the belt, can be driven. However, it is also possible to drive at least one of the at least two trigger wheels with such a trigger drive.

In order to be able to prevent the drawn-off anchor wire from running back in the direction of the supply roll, it can be advantageous if the at least one take-off wheel or at least one of the at least two take-off wheels is / are connected to a freewheel which is effective in the conveying direction of the anchor wire. This means that those equipped with a freewheel

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Puller wheels are freely rotatable in the conveying direction of the anchor wire, but rotation of the puller wheels equipped with the freewheel in the opposite direction is prevented. Instead of a freewheel, a motor with a brake and / or a self-locking geared motor can also be used on the trigger wheels concerned in order to prevent the return described above.

The wire take-off device can have at least one

Have pressing device.

With this pressing device, one of the two above-mentioned extraction wheels can be pressed onto the other in order to promote the

Favorable friction to the anchor wire

Build up anchor wire.

But it is also possible with the

Pressing the belt against that assigned to it

Press the trigger wheel or the trigger wheel against the belt.

In one embodiment of the brush production machine according to the invention, it can also be provided that the wire removal device has at least one clamping wedge drive for removing the anchor wire from the at least one supply roll.

In particular in connection with the use of such a clamping wedge drive for pulling off the anchor wire from the at least one supply roll, it can be advantageous if the

Brush making machine one

Deflection device with one

Deflection wheel and / or with one

Guide sleeve for the

Has anchor wire.

The

Deflection device can be between the at least one

Supply roll and the wire take-off device can be arranged.

This enables the armature wire to be fed precisely to the drive elements of the wire take-off device arranged downstream of the deflection device. For precise guidance of the anchor wire, the deflection wheel can be one, in particular

BE2017 / 5542 have conical, guide groove, in the the Anchor wire in Position of use arranged is. The Deflection wheel can also a Counter wheel be assigned, with the the Anchor wire in the

Guide groove of the deflection wheel can be held. This measure can also be used to precisely guide the anchor wire through the deflection device.

For feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device and the downstream one

Darning tool can

Main drive device

Have drive wheels.

Main drive device at least two associated with each other

However, it is also possible for the drive belt and a drive wheel and / or at least one clamping wedge drive to be included for this purpose. The drive belt that the

Drive belt assigned drive wheel or the two drive wheels can each be driven. However, it is also conceivable to drive only individual drive wheels or only the drive belt. For this purpose, the main drive device can be equipped with corresponding drives or motors.

To the for the feeding of the anchor wire with the help of

Main drive device required contact pressure on the

Being able to produce anchor wire can

Main drive device have at least one pressing device. With this pressing device, at least one of the two drive wheels can be pressed against the other drive wheel and / or the drive belt against the drive wheel assigned to it. However, it is also conceivable to use a pressing device of this type

Drive wheel against the

Press drive belt.

When using a belt in the

Interaction with one

Trigger wheel it can be advantageous if the belt wraps around the trigger wheel assigned to it at an angle of approximately 90 °.

A particularly reliable development of the anchor wire from

BE2017 / 5542 of the at least one supply roll can be achieved if the wrap angle of the belt around that assigned to it

Trigger wheel is larger, for example 180 °, 210 °.

The

Brush making machine can be one

Have main deflection device with a deflection wheel.

This can in particular in the conveying direction of the anchor wire

Main drive device, in particular one, for example the one already mentioned above,

Clamping wedge drive

Main drive device, upstream in the conveying direction of the anchor wire. The main deflection device between the wire buffer and the

Main drive device may be arranged. To the

To be able to reliably deflect the armature wire, the deflection wheel can have a, in particular conical,

Have a guide groove for guiding the anchor wire. In addition, a corresponding counter wheel can be assigned to the deflection wheel. This can engage in the guide groove of the deflection wheel. The armature wire can then be fed between the deflection wheel and the counter wheel in the guide groove of the main drive device.

The main deflection device can increase the accuracy with which the anchor wire of the

Main drive device can be supplied.

In order to reduce or even avoid the occurrence of slippage between the supplied anchor wire and the corresponding feed means of the pull-off device and / or the main drive device or also the respective deflection device and / or the main deflection device, it can be advantageous if an outside of the belt contacting the anchor wire and / or at least one pull-off wheel and / or one, for example the drive belt mentioned above and / or at least one drive wheel and / or one, for example the one already mentioned

BE2017 / 5542 mentioned deflection wheel and / or one, for example the aforementioned deflection wheel of the main deflection device assigned to the main drive device with an anti-slip

Coating is provided.

This anti-slip coating can consist of plastic, rubber or synthetic rubber, for example. Both the main drive device and the

Wire take-off devices can each have a sensor for detecting an anchor wire in the main drive device and / or in the wire take-off device. In this way it can be ensured that an empty run of the brush manufacturing machine can be detected at an early stage.

Furthermore, it is possible for the at least one supply roll to be assigned a supply sensor for monitoring and / or determining a wire supply on the supply roll. The supply sensor can be, for example, a sensor roll that contacts the anchor wire wound on the at least one supply roll. Depending on the position of the sensor roll on the supply roll, the remaining stock of anchor wire on the supply roll can then be inferred. However, it is also possible to design the stock sensor as an optical sensor.

However, it is also possible for the brush production machine to have a dancer roll, which is arranged downstream of the at least one supply roll in the conveying direction. This dancer roll can then be used to indicate that the supply of anchor wire on the at least one supply roll has been used up. As soon as there is no longer any anchor wire on the supply roll, the dancer roll lying in the use position on an anchor wire section running between the at least one supply roll and the take-off device changes its position. As soon as this happens, it becomes apparent

BE2017 / 5542 that the supply of anchor wire on the at least one

Supply roll is used up.

In order to be able to prevent the supply roll from turning back against the conveying direction of the anchor wire, it can be advantageous if the at least one supply roll has a freewheel which is effective in the conveying direction of the anchor wire.

Finally, it should be mentioned that the wire buffer mentioned several times before can be designed as a so-called wire holder. The wire holder can have the previously mentioned two oppositely arranged side walls and the two oppositely arranged end walls which connect the two side walls to one another. The receiving space of the wire buffer then results between the side walls and the end walls. Thus, the wire holder as a receptacle for receiving the in the

Wire buffer arranged wire section can be viewed. The wire section is freely movable within the wire holder. A mobility of the wire section within the

Wire quiver is only from the side walls and the two

End walls connecting side walls limited. Depending on the fill level of the wire buffer, the

Wire section none of the

Side walls or

Contact the end walls or just one or some or even all of the walls of the

Touch wire buffer.

This is possible because the wire section is freely movable within the receiving space. There are therefore no further guiding means within the receiving space of the wire storage device which would influence the course of the wire section which is freely variable within the receiving space. Thus, the wire section within the wire buffer is loosely arranged and between the two already mentioned, on the one hand by the

Main drive device and on the other hand by the

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Pre-deduction device hung predetermined fixed points.

Overall, a high clock frequency when removing the

Anchor wire from the wire buffer for feeding the

Anchor wire to the cutter and tamping tool

reached be, since only the mass of the within the

Wire buffer arranged wire section must be accelerated.

Below are exemplary embodiments of the invention based on the

drawing described in more detail. It shows strong in part

schematic representation:

Fig. 1 a highly schematic perspective representation

a brush manufacturing machine according to the invention, wherein a

between a wire puller and one

Main drive device of the brush manufacturing machine arranged wire buffer can be seen, in the receiving space a wire section with a curved course

within of the recording room freely movable and hanging loosely

is arranged

Fig. 2 2 shows a sectional side view of the brush production machine shown in FIG. 1, Fig. 3 a partially sectioned side view of another brush manufacturing machine according to the invention, the main drive device comprising two clamping wedge drives and the wire buffer in comparison to the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 being designed as a slender wire holder, on the two end walls of which the wire section arranged in a loop within the receiving space of the wire buffer at least in sections lies flat,

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4 shows a plan view of the deflection wheels and counter wheels of a main deflection device or deflection device arranged in different positions in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, wherein it can be seen that the counter wheel engages in a guide groove of the deflection wheel for the anchor wire and closes off the guide groove radially , such as

Fig. 5 is a block diagram of a control circuit, in the upper part of the figure, a central controller and in the lower part of the figure, the brush manufacturing machine according to the invention can be seen in a highly simplified representation.

Figures 1, 2, and show different

Embodiments of an im

Whole with designated

Brush making machine.

The brush making machine has one

Darning tool 2, a cutting device 3, at least one supply roll 4 with a supply of anchor wire 5 and one

Main drive device for feeding the anchor wire to the cutting device 3 and the tamping tool 2.

As shown in particular in Fig. 1, this anchor wire is here as

Flat or

Rectangular wire, preferably the usual one

Standard dimensions, designed this

Anchor wire 5 is guided over the broad side of its cross-sectional shape.

The

Darning tool is for plugging and fastening

Bundles of bristles in bundle holes

9a of a brush by means of that

Anchor wire 5 cut to length

Wire anchors 10 set up. To the brush body 9a

Brush 9 with the

Bundle holes 8 in a position relative to that required for plugging the bristle bundles

To be able to position the darning tool

Brush making machine one relative to that

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Darning tool 2 movable brush holder 11 on which the

Brush 9 or the brush body 9a is clamped.

In order to be able to determine the fill level of the wire supply in the supply roll 4, an ultrasonic sensor can be provided which is aligned directly with the supply roll 4.

With the aid of the cutting device 3, the wire anchors 10 can be cut to length from the anchor wire 5 fed to the cutting device 3 in a length required for fastening the bristle bundles 7 in the bundle holes 8.

With

With the help of the main drive device 6, the armature wire 5 is the

Cutting device 3 and the stuffing tool.

In order to decouple force and momentum between the

To enable the main drive device 6 and the supply roll 4, the brush manufacturing machine 1 has one of the

Supply roll arranged downstream in the conveying direction of the anchor wire, and a wire withdrawal device 12 between the

Wire take-off device and the

Main drive device 6 arranged wire buffer 13.

The wire buffer 13 includes a receiving space 14, which serves to receive a wire section 15 of the supplied anchor wire 5. In the receiving space 14, the wire section 15 is arranged to move freely up to a tensioned state with a variable, curved or curved course within the receiving space 14. This can be seen particularly well from FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.

There is no guide element acting on the wire section 15, such as, for example, a guide roller or a dancer roll, within the receiving space 14, which guards the free mobility of the wire section 15

BE2017 / 5542 would restrict or impair within the receiving space 14. The wire section 15 of the armature wire is therefore essentially free of tension within the receiving space 14.

This is the course of the wire section 15 within the

Recording space 14 by removing anchor wire 5 from the

Wire buffer 13 or by feeding anchor wire 5 in the

Wire buffer 13, that is, depending on a degree of filling of the

Wire buffer 13 changeable without resistance. Forces which act on the mass of the wire section 15 or frictional forces which act between the wire section 15 and an inner wall 19, 20 of the wire buffer 13 when the

Wire section s 15, as can be seen in FIG. 3, may not be regarded in the context of the invention as relevant resistances or forces affecting the mobility of the wire section within the receiving space 14.

The wire section 15 within the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 can thus be shortened without resistance and force-free by removing anchor wire 5 from the receiving space 14.

According to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the wire section 15 is arranged in the receiving space 14 in the form of a wire loop 16.

Through the loop-shaped

Course of the wire section within the

Recording space 14 gives way to a length of

Wire section of a minimal

Length that he would take if he was along a direct connection between the

Wire take-off device and the

Main drive device would be cocked.

These

Length deviation from the conceivable straight course between the

Wire take-off device 12 and the main drive device 6 represent a supply of anchor wire 5 that is largely force-free and resistance-free, even with a high one

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Clock frequency can be removed from the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13.

Only the wire section 15 arranged in the wire buffer 13 has to be accelerated for the cyclical feeding of the anchor wire 5 to the cutting device 3 and the stuffing tool 2. Further guide elements which increase the mass to be accelerated, such as guide rollers or dancer rollers and / or dancer rollers, which could guide the wire section 15 within the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 with a certain tension and impair the free mobility of the wire section 15 within the

Recording room 14 des

Wire buffers 13 would not exist, do not create any resistance to the free

Agility of the

Wire section within the

And therefore do not have to be accelerated.

The figures

1, 2, and further show that the

Brush making machine a non-contact

Detection device 17 with

The detection device 17 with its sensors 18 is

Monitoring and determination of a fill level of the wire buffer set up.

The wire buffer 13 comprises two spaced apart side walls 19 which are oriented in the conveying direction of the anchor wire 5 through the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 and which laterally delimit the receiving space 14. The wire section 15 is arranged to move freely between the two side walls 19, so it can only assume any position within the receiving space 14 to a limited extent due to the side walls 19 and possibly limited by its internal stress. It should be mentioned once again that within the receiving space 14 there is no wire section 15

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Guide of the wire section 15 within the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 are present.

A distance between the two side walls 19 is greater than a diameter or the anchor width of the anchor wire 5. Depending on the diameter or anchor width of the anchor wire, the distance between the side walls 19 can be between 0.05 mm and 3.0 mm larger than a diameter or the anchor width of the supplied anchor wire 5.

In one embodiment of the brush manufacturing machine 1 according to the invention, which is not shown in the figures, it is provided that the distance between the side walls 19 from one another can be set as a function of a diameter or as a function of the armature width of the supplied armature wire 5. This in order to be able to adapt the brush manufacturing machine 1 to different anchor wires for manufacturing different brushes.

In addition to the two spaced apart

Sidewalls 19, the wire buffer has two mutually spaced transverse or perpendicular to

Direction of funding of

Anchor wire through the

Recording space 14 of the wire buffer oriented

End walls 20 on. These end walls connect the

Side walls of the wire buffer with each other and limit the

Recording space 14 on the front.

Thus the

Receiving space 14 on the one hand through the two mutually spaced side walls 19 and on the other hand through the two spaced apart

End walls 20 defined.

Between the two end walls is the

Wire section arranged freely movable and can, for example, depending on the degree of filling

Wire buffer that shown in Figures 1 and 2

Position within the

Take up space 14 or according to Figure 3, the one

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Brush manufacturing machine 1 shows in another embodiment, on which here compared to the embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 2 arranged at a short distance from each other end walls of the one shown there

Apply wire buffer 13.

In the

Variant of the invention

Brush manufacturing machine 1 according to Figure 3 with a

Comparison to the embodiment of the wire buffer according to Figures 1 and 2 narrower wire buffer 13, which also as

Wire quiver can be called, there is

Advantage in the front

Attachment of the wire section to the

End walls

20. Due to the friction between the

End walls and the wire section 15 can vibrations and other uncontrolled occurring when the anchor wire 5 is removed from the wire accumulator in cycles

Movements of the wire section 15 within the receiving space of the wire buffer 13 can be reduced or even avoided.

The exemplary embodiments of the wire buffer 13 shown in the figures have in common that the distance between the two end walls 20 is a multiple of the distance between the two side walls 19.

According to FIG. 3, the distance between the two end walls 20 is selected and matched to the anchor wire 5 processed by means of the brush manufacturing machine 1 in such a way that the wire section 15 contacts the two end walls 20 within the receiving space 14.

For monitoring and determining the degree of filling of the wire buffer 13, the detection device 17 is designed as an optical detection device 17. The detection device 17 can have ultrasonic sensors or other, preferably non-contact sensors as sensors 18. In this one

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Detection device 17 sensors 18, which are designed as light barriers 21 which are preferably evenly spaced from one another. Each of the light barriers 21 in each case comprises a light emitting element 22 and a light receiving element 23, which are arranged in pairs opposite one another on the end walls 20 of the wire buffer 13.

In particular, the sectional representations of the wire buffer 13 according to FIGS. 2 and 3 make it clear that both the light-transmitting elements 22 and the light-receiving elements 23 of the light barriers 21 are recessed in the end walls 20 of the wire buffer 13 and are arranged at a distance from the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 . In this way, the light-emitting elements 22 and also the light-receiving elements 23 are well protected against contamination or damage by the wire section 15 of the armature wire 5, which is freely movable within the receiving space 14.

The light barriers 21 of the detection device 17 are aligned parallel to the side walls 19 of the wire buffer 13. This means that light beams 24 forming between the light transmitting elements 22 and light receiving elements 23 propagate parallel to the side walls 19 of the wire buffer 13 within the receiving space 14. The functioning of the light barriers 21 can be seen particularly well from FIG. 2.

Here, the wire loop 16 of the wire section 15 extends so far from above into the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 that four of the five light barriers 21 arranged vertically one above the other and at a distance from one another are connected. Only in the lowermost light barrier 21 is that between the light emitting element 22 and the

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Light receiving element 23 trained light beam 24 Not interrupted. On these Way the Spread the Wire loop 16 of Wire section 15 within of Recording room 14 of Wire buffer 13 with help the non-contact Detection device 17 can be determined.

At the latest when the wire loop 16 of the wire section 15 has been pulled out of the wire buffer 13 by the removal of anchor wire 5 from the receiving space 14 to such an extent that it no longer switches the uppermost one of the light barriers 21, the wire pulling device 12 can issue a corresponding request in the form of a control signal receive anchor wire 5 to replenish the wire buffer 13 in the receiving space 14.

As soon as the wire buffer 13 has reached a desired degree of filling, for example when all five light barriers 21 are switched again due to the wire loop 16 of the wire section 15 reaching into the receiving space 14, the wire withdrawal device 12 can receive a corresponding control signal, as a result of which the anchor wire 5 is further conveyed is stopped in the wire buffer 13.

In one embodiment of the brush manufacturing machine 1 according to the invention, not shown in the figures, it is provided that the brush manufacturing machine

1, for example the detection device 17, at least one, preferably optical,

Level sensor for monitoring and / or determining the

Degree of filling of the

Has wire buffer.

This fill level sensor can then be used to supplement or replace the light barriers 21. It can be provided that the level sensor on the

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Brush manufacturing machine 1 is arranged that it is directed to an open narrow side 25 and from above or from below through the open narrow side 25

Recording space 14 of the wire buffer 13 optically monitored.

According to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the wire take-off device has a belt 26, which can be designed, for example, as a toothed belt. In addition to the belt 26, the wire take-off device 12 has a take-off wheel 27. The trigger wheel 27 is wrapped by the belt 26 with a wrap angle of approximately 90 °. Larger wrap angles are possible and, depending on the application, also desirable.

The anchor wire 5 is arranged between the belt 26 and the take-off wheel 27. With the help of the belt 26 and the pull-off wheel 27, the anchor wire 5 can be pulled off the supply roll 4 and fed to the wire buffer 13. According to FIG. 1, the belt 26 runs over two belt wheels 28, which bring the belt 26 into the arrangement required for wrapping the take-off wheel 27.

A tensioning wheel 29 is arranged between the two belt wheels 28. A tensioning drive 30 is assigned to the tensioning wheel 29, by means of which the relative position of the tensioning wheel 29 to the two other belt wheels 28 can be changed in order to generate a tension of the belt 26.

One of the two and the trigger wheel 27 is one

Trigger drive 31 in

Mapped shape of an engine. With the help of the trigger drives 31 on the one hand the belt 2 6 and on the other hand that

Trigger wheel 27 are driven.

The

Trigger wheel 27 is also with an m

Direction of delivery of the anchor wire 5 effective freewheel 32 equipped, which is an undesirable

Turn back the trigger wheel

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The

Wire drawing device also has one

Pressing device 33 with which the driven belt wheel for pressing the belt against that assigned to it

Trigger wheel 27 can be pressed. This is for the for

Promoting the

Anchor wire useful

To be able to provide contact pressure.

Distance sensors 34 are assigned to both the tensioning wheel 29 and the driven one. With these the

Position of the driven or the

Position of the tensioning wheel are monitored. From the positions determined, it can be concluded whether there is an anchor wire 5 between the belt and the trigger wheel. Thus, the two distance sensors 34 can

Monitoring and controlling the

Feeding the anchor wire 5 can be used.

Upstream of the wire withdrawal device 12 in the conveying direction of the anchor wire 5, the brush production machine 1 has a deflection device 35. This deflection device 35 comprises a deflection wheel 36, a guide sleeve 37 for the anchor wire 5 and a counter wheel 38 assigned to the deflection wheel 36, by means of which the anchor wire can be reliably pressed onto the deflection wheel 36 in order to deflect the anchor wire 5.

In order to be able to prevent the armature wire 5 from slipping sideways from the deflection wheel 36, the deflection wheel 36 has a conical guide groove 39 on its outer circumference for guiding the armature wire 5. A top view of the deflection wheel 36 and the counter wheel 38 assigned to the deflection wheel 36 is shown in FIG. The guide groove 39 of the is also good here

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Recognizing the deflection wheel 36, in which the mating wheel 38 engages to a certain extent in order to produce a closed guide channel for the safe guidance and deflection of the armature wire 5.

The deflection device 35 is arranged between the supply roll 4 and the wire draw-off device 12.

According to FIGS. 1 and 2, the main drive device 6 of the brush manufacturing machine 1 shown there has two mutually associated drive wheels 40 and 41.

In the variant of the brush-making machine 1 shown in FIG. 3, the main drive device 6 comprises two clamping wedge drives 42, 43 arranged one behind the other, with which, as with the two drive wheels 40, 41, the anchor wire 5 of the cutting device 3 and the tamping tool 2 can be fed in cycles. According to FIG. 1, each of the two drive wheels 40, 41 is assigned a drive motor 44, which apply the torque required for feeding the armature wire 5.

When using clamping wedge drives 42, 43 according to the figure, either the front clamping wedge drive 42 can be moved or both can be moved in opposite directions, each of the two clamping wedge drives 42, 43 then only executing half a stroke.

The

Main drive device further includes one

Press device 45.

These

Pressing device 45 is assigned to the upper drive wheel 41 of the two drive wheels 40, and is used to supply the

Anchor wire 5 desirable

Contact pressure between the two

Drive wheels

40 to generate.

The

Press device 45 of the upper drive wheel 41 is there

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Distance of the upper drive wheel 41 to the lower drive wheel can be monitored. On the

Distance between the two

Drive wheels

40, to each other it can be concluded whether between the two

Drive wheels

40, anchor wire still available

The brush manufacturing machine shown in the figure includes one upstream of the two clamping wedge drives 42 and

Main deflection device

The

Main deflecting device 46 serves to be able to feed the anchor wire 5 to the two clamping wedge drives 42 and with the required precision.

The

For this purpose, the main deflection device 46 has a deflection wheel 36 and a deflection wheel assigned to it has the same reference numerals as the deflection wheel 36 and that

Counter wheel of the deflecting device 35, since it with respect to their

Construction with these.

The deflection wheel of the main deflection device 46 is constructed analogously to the deflection wheel 36 of the deflection device 35 and also comprises a guide groove 39 for guiding the

Anchor wire

5. Also in the main deflection device 46, the counter wheel engages in the guide groove 39 of the deflection wheel 36.

This is for example according to the partially cut

Recognition in Figure 3.

In this respect, the

Representation of a deflection wheel 36 and that associated with the deflection wheel

Counter wheel 36 according to Figure 4 also on the

Transfer main deflector 46 according to Figure 3.

The outside of the belt 26, the drive wheels 40, 41 and the deflection wheels 36 contacting the anchor wire 5 are coated with a non-slip coating made of plastic or rubber or the like in order to prevent the anchor wire 5 from slipping during the feed relative to the drive means mentioned above prevent.

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The aforementioned distance sensors 34 of the

The main drive device 6 and the wire take-off device 12 each have the function of a sensor for detecting the

Anchor wire 5 in the main drive device 6 or in the wire withdrawal device 12.

The supply of the armature wire 5 can be controlled by the brush manufacturing machine 1 in accordance with the states determined by the sensors. It is also possible to output appropriate signals to an operator with which it can be indicated that, for example, a change of the supply roll 4 is necessary.

also be assigned to the supply roll 4, by means of the supply roll

Stock sensor a den

Anchor wire 5 contacting

Supply roll

on the supply roll 4

Remaining stock of anchor wire 5 can be on the remaining stock. It is an optical one

Sensor or determination

In addition, stock sensor on anchor wire

Here, the wound up and decreasing on the sensor roll 4, from which the monitoring can be deduced as a stock sensor

Storage roll 4 without contact other

Brush production machine is supply roll 4 and the sensor roll on the between the wire take-off device This dancer roll 5 is more a corresponding one whose remaining stock can be monitored on the supply roll 4 The position of the changes with the supply roll on the anchor wire 5 but also possible that is used with that of the wire supply on the. In one embodiment, it is provided that a dancer roll 4 and 5 rests between the one.

if none determined

The wire take-off device of the supply roll of anchor wire then changes its position if it is present. This makes it possible to determine when the supply roll 4 needs to be changed.

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Supply roll 4 can be rotated against the conveying direction. This would lead to an undesired tension or movement of the armature wire 5 against the actual conveying direction, which in turn could impair the accuracy and the operation of the brush manufacturing machine 1.

The brush manufacturing machine 1 has a main drive shaft on which three double eccentrics are formed. A first double eccentric is responsible for a lifting movement of the tamping tool 2 and a pusher tongue 46 movably arranged therein. A lifting movement of the cutting device 3 can be generated with a second double eccentric. A third double eccentric is connected to the clamping wedge drives 42, 43 via an adjustable lever system in order to drive them or only one of these two.

According to the sectional view of the cutting device 2 according to

Figure 2 has the cutting device 2 in its interior

Stop surface 57 for the cutting device 2 fed

Anchor wire 5 on.

The method described below can be carried out on the brush production machine 1 described above.

In order to produce brushes 9, anchor wire 5 is pulled off the supply roll 4 and fed to the cutting device 3. In the cutting device 3, wire anchors 10 are cut to length from the anchor wire 5 and then together with bristle bundles 7 for fastening the bristle bundles 7 to the brush 9 by means of the tamping tool 2 in bundle holes 8

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Brush 9 stuffed. For this purpose, the bristle bundles 7 are transferred to the tamping tool 2 in a manner known per se. For this purpose, the stuffing tool 2 has a receiving notch 47 within which the bristle bundles 7 to be stuffed can be arranged.

With the aid of the ram tongue 46, the wire anchor 10 held ready can be stuffed together with the bundle of bristles 7 arranged in the receiving notch 47 into the corresponding bundle hole 8 of the brush 9 provided on the brush holder 11, which is still shown here as a very schematically represented brush body 9a or bundle holding plate.

It is provided that the anchor wire 5 is fed to the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 after it has been pulled off the supply roll 4 and before being fed to the cutting device 3. The armature wire 5 is freely movable within the receiving space 14, that is to say it is not held under a certain tension or forced into a certain position by any guiding element within the receiving space. The anchor wire 5 assumes a curved or curved course within the receiving space 14, which varies freely depending on the filling level of the wire buffer 3 up to a tensioned state of the anchor wire 5 and can be transported with this course through the receiving space 14.

The

Course of the anchor wire 5 within the

Recording room 4 by removing anchor wire 5 from the

Wire buffer 13 unloaded, changed resistance-free and force-free, in particular shortened. The armature wire 5 is transported through the receiving space 14 in a force-free, resistance-free manner and under a lower tension than transport sections upstream or downstream in the wire buffer 13. This way he can move within the limits of the

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Arrange or align the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 freely.

When the brush manufacturing machine 1 is set up, the anchor wire 5 is formed into the loop 16, arranged in the receiving space 14 and then moved through the receiving space 14 of the wire buffer 13 with a loop-shaped, resistance-free and force-free variable course.

The anchor wire 5 is removed from the wire buffer 13 in a clocked manner and fed to the cutting device 3 and then to the stuffing tool 2 in a clocked manner. The fill level of the wire buffer 13 is monitored and determined by means of the detection device 17. Anchor wire 5 is then fed into the wire buffer 13 when the fill level reaches or falls below a defined minimum fill level. In this case, a conveying speed of the armature wire 5 into the wire buffer 13 can be predetermined and set as a function of the detected degree of filling of the wire buffer 13 by means of a central control unit 48.

FIG. 5 shows a simplified illustration of a circuit for operating the brush manufacturing machine 1 according to the invention. The brush manufacturing machine 1 and the central control unit 48, which can be arranged in a control cabinet 54, can be seen in the lower part of this illustration. The central control unit 48 controls the main drive device 6 and thus switches on the drive motors 44 or the clamping wedge drives 42, 43. In general, the sensors 18 or specifically the light receiving elements 23 of the light barriers 21 of the detection device 17, which can also be referred to as light guide sensors, report the filling level of the wire memory 13, which can also be referred to as a wire holder, via I / O units 56 and a CAN bus system 55 to the central control unit

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48. In addition to CAN bus systems, other bus systems can also be used. In principle, the use of direct control without a bus system is also conceivable.

Depending on the fill level of the wire store 13, the trigger drives 31 are activated for refilling the wire store 13.

In the simplest embodiment of the brush manufacturing machine 1, a relay 49 connects a power supply 51 to the drive motors 44 and trigger drives 31, which are designed, for example, as DC motors. A resistor 50 can control the speed of the drive motors 44 and also the speed

Specify trigger drives 31. Resistor 50 can be an adjustable resistor, since the speed of drive motors 44 and trigger drives 31 can be variably adjusted in this way.

According to FIG. 5, the brush manufacturing machine 1 has two relays 49 and two variably adjustable resistors 50, which are connected to the power supply 51. The power supply 51, the relay 49 and the resistors 50 are connected to the trigger drives 31 and the tensioning drives 30 via a supply line 52.

In one embodiment of the brush manufacturing machine 1, which is not shown in the figures, several relays and resistors can be connected in parallel, so that depending on the filling level of the wire storage device 13 different conveying speeds of the drive motors 44, the clamping wedge drives 43, 44 and / or also the trigger drives 31 and the tensioning drive 30 can be set.

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In order to be able to implement a particularly precise control, tension drives 30, trigger drives 31 and also as

Drive motors 44 of the main drive device 6 servomotors or stepper motors can be used.

The drive motors 44 of the main drive device 6 are controlled via controller 53, which is subordinate to the central control unit 48.

The central control unit 48 is housed by the control cabinet 54, which is shown only in a highly schematic manner.

To be precise Feeder from Anchor wire 5 too the Cutting device 3 and the Darning tool 2 the Brush making machine 1 to will enable the

Main drive device of the

Brush manufacturing machine 1 by means of the wire buffer and the wire drawing device 12 from the supply roll 4, on which the armature wire 5 is wound, decoupled force and / or pulse. For this purpose, it is provided that the armature wire 5 in the receiving space 14 of the

Wire buffers loose, that is freely movable, arranged and through the

Recording room is transported.

The

Wire section of the

Anchor wire within the

Receiving space a curved or curved or loop-shaped

Course.

This

Course is

Dependence of

Fill level of the wire buffer within the

Recording room 14 freely changeable. The more anchor wire 5 is removed from the wire storage 13, the less curved or curved is the course of the wire section 15 within the receiving space 14. Since the anchor wire 5 within the receiving space 14 has no further guide element, such as a dancer roller or other guide roller, in a specific position brought or held in such, the removal of the armature wire 5 from the wire memory 13 largely without force or resistance

BE2017 / 5542. Only the mass of the anchor wire 5 located within the receiving space must be accelerated in addition to the mass of the drive means of the main drive device 6 when the anchor wire 5 is removed from the receiving space 14 in cycles. An acceleration of another

Guide elements in the form of a dancer roll or even the entire supply roll 4, on which the anchor wire 5 is wound, can thus be avoided.

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Reference symbol list

Brush making machine

Darning tool

Cutting device

Supply roll

Anchor wire

Main drive device

Bristle bundle

Bundle holes

brush

9a brush body

Wire anchor

Brush holder

Wire take-off device

Wire buffer

Recording room

Wire section

Wire loop

Detection device

Sensors

Side walls

End walls

Photoelectric barrier

Light emitting element

Light receiving element

Beam of light

Narrow side of 13

belt

Trigger wheel

Belt wheels

Tensioning wheel

Tension drive

Trigger drive

Freewheel

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33 Pressing device from 12 34 Distance sensors 35 Deflection device 36 Deflection wheel 37 Guide sleeve 38 Counter wheel 39 Guide groove 40 drive wheel 41 drive wheel 42 Clamp wedge drive 43 Clamp wedge drive 44 Drive motor 45 Pressing device from 6 46 Tongue 47 Recording score for 7th 48 central control unit 49 relay 50 resistance 51 Power supply 52 supply line 53 Control for 6 54 switch cabinet 55 CAN bus 56 I / O unit 57 Stop surface for 5 in 3

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Claims (25)

Expectations 1. A process for the production of brushes (9), wherein the armature wire (5) is drawn off from a supply roll (4) and fed to a cutting device (3), after which wire armature (10) is cut to length from the armature wire (5) and the wire armature (10) then, together with bristle bundles (7) for fastening the bristle bundles (7) to a brush (9), are stuffed into bundle holes (8) of the brush (9) by means of a stuffing tool (2), the anchor wire (5) after being pulled off the Storage roll (4) and before being fed to the cutting device (3) is fed to a receiving space (14) of a wire buffer (13), characterized in that the wire buffer (13) has two mutually spaced side walls (19) which define the receiving space (14 ) limit laterally and between which a wire section (15) of the anchor wire (5) is arranged to move freely, and that the anchor wire (5) is freely movable within the receiving space (14) and has a curved or curved, depending on Availability of the degree of filling of the wire buffer (13) up to a tensioned state of the anchor wire (5) freely variable course is transported through the receiving space (14). 2. The method for producing brushes (9) according to claim 1, characterized in that the course of the anchor wire (5) within the receiving space (14) by removing the anchor wire (5) from the wire buffer (13) unloaded and / or resistance and / or changed without force, in particular shortened, and / or that the armature wire (5) is free of force and / or resistance and / or under a lower tension than transport sections upstream and / or downstream in the wire buffer (13) through the receiving space (14) is transported and / or that the BE2017 / 5542 Anchor wire (5) formed into a loop (16) in which is arranged and with a Recording room (14) Loop-shaped, resistance-free and / or force-free variable course is moved through the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer (13). 3. A method of manufacturing brushes (9) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the armature wire (5) from the wire buffer (13) clocked and removed Cutting device (3) and the stuffing tool (2) is fed in a clocked manner and / or that the degree of filling of the Wire buffer (13) is monitored and / or determined by means of a detection device (17) and that anchor wire (5) is fed into the wire buffer (13) when the fill level reaches or falls below a defined minimum fill level, in particular with one Conveying speed of the anchor wire (5) into the wire buffer (13) depending on the filling level of the wire buffer (13) is specified and set by means of a control unit (48). 4. A method for producing brushes (9) according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that a flat or rectangular wire is used as the anchor wire (5). 5. Brush manufacturing machine (1) with a tamping tool (2) for plugging and fastening bristle bundles (7) into bundle holes (8) of a brush (9) by means of wire anchors (10), with a cutting device (3) for cutting the wire anchors (10) to length of an anchor wire (5) fed to the cutting device (3), with at least one supply roll (4) with a supply of anchor wire (5) and with a main drive device (6) for feeding the BE2017 / 5542 Anchor wire (5) to the cutting device (3) and the tamping tool (2), the brush manufacturing machine (1) one of the at least one supply roll (4) arranged downstream in the conveying direction of the anchor wire (5) and one between the wire removal device (4) 12) and the main drive device (6) arranged wire buffer (13) with a receiving space (14) for receiving a wire section (15), characterized in that the wire section (15) up to a tensioned state with a variable, curved or curved course can be freely moved within the receiving space (14) and is arranged when the brush manufacturing machine (1) is used, the wire buffer (13) having two spaced apart side walls (19) which laterally delimit the receiving space (14) and between which the wire section (15 ) can be freely arranged or arranged. 6. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to claim 5, characterized in that the course of the wire section (15) within the Recording space is variable without resistance and / or that the wire section (15) can be shortened without resistance and / or force-free and / or that the Wire section (15) in the receiving space in the form of at least one Wire loop can be arranged or arranged. 7. brush manufacturing machine (1) according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the Brush production machine (1) has a, preferably non-contact, detection device (17) with at least one sensor (18) for monitoring and / or determining a filling level of the wire buffer (13). BE2017 / 5542 8. Brush manufacturing machine according to claim 7, characterized in that at least one sensor Detection device is designed as an ultrasonic sensor. 9. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the two spaced apart, side walls (19) in the conveying direction of the anchor wire (5) through the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer (13) are oriented, in particular with a distance the side walls (19) is larger than a diameter or larger than the anchor width of the anchor wire (5), preferably the distance between the side walls (19) being between 0.05 mm and 3.0 mm, in particular between 1.0 mm and 3, 0 mm, larger than a diameter or larger than the anchor width of the supplied anchor wire (5). 10. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to claim 9, characterized in that the distance between the side walls (19) to one another depending on a diameter or depending on the anchor width of the supplied anchor wire (5) is adjustable. 11. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the wire buffer (13) two spaced, in particular transverse or perpendicular to the conveying direction of the anchor wire (5) through the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer (13) oriented, end walls (20) which connect the side walls (19) of the wire buffer (13) to each other, which delimit the receiving space (14) and between which the wire section (15) can be freely arranged or arranged, in particular with a distance between the two end walls (20) BE2017 / 5542 a multiple of a distance from each other Side walls (19) to each other and / or is selected so that the wire section (15) within the Contacted recording room. (14) the both End walls (20) 12. Brush making machine (1) after one the previous Expectations, thereby featured, that one or the Detection device (17) the Brush manufacturing machine (1) for monitoring and / or Determination of the degree of filling of the wire buffer (13) as an optical detection device (17) with at least one, preferably wherein the detection device is arranged at least two or three or four or five or more, in particular evenly spaced apart, adjacent to the receiving space (14) Includes light barriers (21), and / or wherein Light emitting elements and / or Light receiving elements of the at least one of a wall, in particular recessed in an end wall (20) and at a distance from the receiving space 13. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one light barrier (21) of one or the detection device (17) is aligned parallel to side walls (19) of the wire buffer (13). 14. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the previous Claims, characterized in that the Brush manufacturing machine (1), especially the Detection device (17), at least one, preferably optical, fill level sensor for monitoring and / or BE2017 / 5542 Determination of the fill level of the wire buffer (13), which is directed to monitor the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer (13) and the fill level of the wire buffer (13) on an open narrow side (25), in particular from above or from below. 15. Brush manufacturing machine according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the wire pulling device (12) has a belt, in particular a toothed belt, and at least one Puller wheel (27) and / or at least two puller wheels with which the anchor wire (5) can be pulled off the at least one supply roll (4) and fed to the wire buffer, the brush manufacturing machine having a puller drive (31) with which the Belt and / or the at least one trigger wheel or with the at least one of the at least two Trigger wheels can be driven, preferably one trigger wheel (27) or at least two trigger wheels with one in which at least one of the at least one Direction of funding of the Anchor wire (5) effective freewheel (32) and / or with a motor with a brake and / or with a self-locking Gear motor is connected. 16. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to claim 15, characterized in that the wire take-off device (12) has at least one pressing device (33) with which one of the two take-off wheels (27) to the other and / or with which the belt (26) against the trigger wheel (27) assigned to it or the trigger wheel (27) can be pressed onto the belt (26). 17. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the wire withdrawal device (12) at least one clamping BE2017 / 5542 Wedge drive for pulling the anchor wire (5) from the at least one supply roll (4). 18. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the brush manufacturing machine (1) a Deflection device (35) with a deflection wheel (36) and / or with a guide sleeve (37) for the anchor wire (5), which is arranged between the at least one supply roll (4) and the wire take-off device (12), preferably wherein the deflection wheel ( 36) a, in particular conical, guide groove (39) for guiding the anchor wire (5) and / or wherein Counter wheel (38) is assigned. the Deflection wheel (36) a 19th Brush making machine (1) after one the previous claims, thereby featured, that the main drive device (6) comprises at least two drive wheels (40, 41) assigned to one another and / or a drive belt and a drive wheel and / or at least one clamping wedge drive (42, 43) with which the anchor wire (5) of the cutting device (3) and can be fed to the tamping tool (2), in particular wherein the drive belt and / or the drive wheel and / or at least one of the two drive wheels (40, 41) by means of at least one corresponding one Drive motor (44) can be driven. 20. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the main drive device (6) at least one Has pressing device (45) with which at least one of the two drive wheels (40, 41) on the other and / or with which the drive belt against the one assigned to it Drive wheel and / or the drive wheel against the 21. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the brush manufacturing machine (1) a Main deflection device (46) with a deflection wheel (36) BE2017 / 5542 Drive frame can be pressed. has in the conveying direction of the anchor wire (5) of the main drive device (12), in particular one or the clamping wedge drive (42, 43) of the Main drive device (12), upstream in the conveying direction of the armature wire (5), preferably wherein the deflection wheel (36) has a, in particular conical, guide groove (39) for guiding the armature wire (5) and / or wherein the deflection wheel (36) has a counter wheel (38) is assigned. 22. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the armature wire (5) contacting the outside of one or the belt (26) and / or at least one pull-off wheel (27) and / or one or the drive belt and / or at least one drive wheel (40, 41) and / or one or of the at least one deflection wheel (36) is provided with an anti-slip coating, in particular made of plastic or rubber or synthetic rubber. 23. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the main drive device (6) and / or the wire take-off device (12) each have at least one sensor for detecting an anchor wire (5) in the main drive device (6) and / or in the Has / have wire withdrawal device (12). 24. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding BE2017 / 5542 Claims, characterized in that the at least one is a stock sensor, in particular the one on the at least one Supply roll wound up Anchor wire contacting Sensor roll or an optical sensor for monitoring and / or determining a wire supply on the at least one supply roll (4) and / or that the brush manufacturing machine (1) is assigned Has dancer role that the at least one Supply roll (4) is downstream in the conveying direction and in the use position on one between the at least one Supply roll and the Trigger device trending Anchor wire section rests and with which can be displayed when the supply Anchor wire (5) on which at least one supply roll (4) is used up. 25. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one supply roll (4) has a free-wheel (32) which is effective in the conveying direction of the anchor wire (5). 26. Brush manufacturing machine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the brush manufacturing machine (1) Has main drive shaft on which three double eccentrics are formed, with a first double eccentric a lifting movement of the tamping tool (2) and a second double eccentric a lifting movement of the Cutting device (3) can be produced and a third double eccentric is connected to one or the clamping wedge drive (42, 43) via an adjustable lever system in order to drive it. 27th Brush making machine (1) after one BE2017 / 5542 the previous claims, characterized, that the cutting device (2) a stop surface (57) For that of the cutter (2) supplied anchor wire (5) having. 28. Brush manufacturing machine (D according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the anchor wire is designed as a flat or rectangular wire. ΒΕ2017 / 5542 -Μ BE2017 / 5542 BE2017 / 5542 Summary BE2017 / 5542 For precise feeding of anchor wire (5) to the Cutting device (3) and the tamping tool (2) Brush manufacturing machine (1) is the Main drive device (6) of the brush manufacturing machine (1) by means of the wire buffer (13) and the Wire take-off device (12) decoupled from the supply roll (4) by force and / or pulse. It is intended that the Anchor wire (5) in the receiving space (14) of the wire buffer loose, that is freely movable, arranged and through the Recording room is transported. The Wire section of the Anchor wire within the Receiving space a curved or curved or loop-shaped Course. This course is Dependence of Filling levels can be changed within the recording room. Since the Anchor wire (5) within the Recording room (14) from any other Guiding element, like a Dancer role or other Leadership role, brought into a certain position or is held in such a position, the removal of the Anchor wire (5) from the wire storage (13) largely without force or resistance. (Fig. 1). TREATY ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF PATENTING