CN103132859A - Automatic strip-inserting process of heat-insulting bridge cut-off aluminum window and door profiles - Google Patents
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Disclosed is an automatic strip-inserting process of heat-insulting bridge cut-off aluminum window and door profiles. The automatic strip-inserting process includes the steps: (1), an automatic feeding process: automatically feeding aluminum profiles placed in a feed frame into a feeding frame of a laminator automatically; (2), a laminating-and-tooth punching linkage process: automatically laminating and delaminating the aluminum profiles by the laminator driven by a tooth punching machine which is used for punching teeth and roughening rabbets for inserting strips of the aluminum profiles; (3), a manipulator delivery process: transversely moving and turning to deliver upper profiles and lower profiles which are punched with teeth into a fixed conveyer to be subjected to strip inserting process by a manipulator; (4), a continuous automatic strip-inserting process: placing the strips in trays in a strip feeding rack, completing strip inserting, strip length determining and strip cutting automatically by the strip feeding rack, the strip cutting detecting platform and an automatic strip-inserting machine in a linkage manner; and (5), a rolling depression process: flattening strip-inserted upper profiles and lower profiles and then conveying the same into a roller press to be rolled and finally discharged. The automatic strip-inserting process has the advantages of realizing completely continuous automation of production of the heat-insulting bridge cut-off aluminum window and door profiles.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the metal gate ﹠ metal window frame field, be specifically related to a kind of heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile and automatically wear bar technique.
Background technology
The heat-insulating bridge-cut-off alumium alloy door and window are the alumium alloy door and window that continue, a kind of Novel door window after plastic-steel door and window.The principle of heat-insulating bridge-cut-off alumium alloy door and window is utilize heat insulating strip (claiming again adhesive tape) that the two-layer aluminium alloys of indoor and outdoor had not only been separated but also closely connect into an integral body, consist of a kind of new heat-insulated aluminium extruded sections, do door and window with this section bar, its thermal insulation with mould (steel) window in same grade---the GB level, thoroughly solved the fatal problem that the aluminium alloys heat loss through conduction is fast, do not meet energy-conservation requirement, take simultaneously some new respective outer side edges forms, thoroughly solved the hard nut to crack of " aluminum alloy slide window is poorly sealed ".This product two sides is aluminium, the centre is plastic heat-insulating material, and this innovation structure designs, and has taken into account the advantage of plastics and aluminium alloys bi-material, satisfy simultaneously the multiple requirement of decorative effect and door and window intensity and durability energy, significantly improve watertightness and the tightness of door and window.This window rolls into one aluminium, the advantage of moulding two kinds of windows, has removed their shortcomings separately, thereby has become user's ideal selection.Although the present price of this window a little more than in the market conventional aluminium, mould sliding sash, but the Integrated using effect of this window is better than common Compound aluminium-plastics window greatly, even effective than Double-layer aluminum sliding sash, have very high cost performance, and use this window can save heating cost and electric power changes of air conditioners reaches 50% left and right.
At present, heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile is worn the relevant equipment of bar gulleting machine, roller, machine for stringing etc., the equipment that tooth punching is worn the bar all-in-one and similarly had complex function also occurred.The external automatic assembly line that import is also arranged, but be not only the import price costliness, and can not adapt to the instructions for use of China's aluminium extruded sections compound section, wear bar and also can not realize comprehensive continuous and automatic.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to fill up the blank of prior art, what a kind of heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile was provided wears bar technique automatically, can complete pad pasting, tooth punching, wire rod and wear the multiple working procedures such as bar and roll extrusion, realize each operation of bridge-cut-off aluminum door-window section bar production line operatorless comprehensive continuous and automatic fully, greatly enhance productivity, reduce production costs.
Technical scheme of the present invention is specially: a kind of heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, comprise following step:
(1) self-feeding operation: the aluminium extruded sections that will put into the material frame is sent into laminator automatically;
(2) pad pasting and tooth punching operation: laminator carries out automatic coating, disconnected film to aluminium extruded sections, and gulleting machine is worn on the notch of adhesive tape tooth punching and hacking and processed at aluminium extruded sections;
(3) manipulator transmission operation: lower sectional material, the upper sectional material traversing upset of manipulator after with tooth punching sent into fixed conveyor and waited for and wear bar;
(4) Automatic continuous is worn the bar operation: adhesive tape one-tenth dish is placed on the adhesive tape discharging frame, and adhesive tape discharging frame, adhesive tape broken end monitor station, automatic machine for stringing interlock are completed aluminium extruded sections and worn bar, adhesive tape fixed length and adhesive tape severing;
(5) rolling step: the roller of sending into after aluminium extruded sections is bulldozed up and down that will put on bar carries out roll extrusion and output.
Described step (four) utilizes the linkages such as adhesive tape discharging frame, broken end detect, automatic machine for stringing to wear continuously and automatically bar, fixed length, severing; it is this core process of automatically wearing the bar production line; the adhesive tape discharging frame is used for placing wire rod; adhesive tape broken end monitor station: feedback alarm and shutdown when broken end appears in adhesive tape, the adhesive tape carriage is used for supporting adhesive tape.The adhesive tape that existing machine for stringing uses is all the adhesive tape of bundled regular length, such as long every of 6m, section bar is worn bar need to have the workman to take the auxiliary machine for stringing running of adhesive tape.The invention enables section bar no longer to wear bar by human assistance in wearing the bar process, the realization of higher degree the automation of production line, solved simultaneously craft after wearing bar and the completing problem that fractures, the adhesive tape section is neat, and has stopped the waste of adhesive tape.
Preferably, described step () be will put into the aluminium extruded sections of material frame be emitted on respectively and carry out the automatic charging feeding on two bin hoists of parallel placement and be transported to laminator.
Preferably, described step (three) manipulator transmission operation is that the lower sectional material after with tooth punching carries out vertical rising and the traversing fixed conveyor that is transported to the lower sectional material manipulator; Upper sectional material with the upper sectional material manipulator after with tooth punching vertically raises, 180 ° of upsets and traversing to fixed conveyors, accurately is positioned at the lower sectional material top.
Preferably, described automatic machine for stringing comprises the guiding mouth mechanism of upper lower sectional material location, adhesive tape auto counter mechanism, automatically cut off adhesive tape mechanism, can rely on the friction pulley on encoder to make pure rolling on adhesive tape, measures needed length.
Pad pasting is in order to prevent that section bar from being scratched, and affects product attractive in appearance in the following process engineering.
Gulleting machine is the special equipment of producing heat-insulation aluminum section, is mainly to wear tooth punching on the notch of adhesive tape on aluminium extruded sections, to play the effect of the longitudinal shear power that adds heavy section.
Roller is will be installed with the aluminium alloy extrusions compacting pressing of adhesive tape with the hard rolling depression cutter.Common roller is with 3 groups of hard rolling depression cutters, first group: guiding and pre-the clamping; Second group: roll extrusion; The 3rd group: alignment, charging rate is by the Frequency Converter Control adjustable speed.
The invention has the advantages that: comprehensive continuous and automatic of having realized heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door's window profile production, the rewinding when workman only needs blanking, all really realized unmannedly in each operation manufacturing processes, alleviated labor strength, greatly enhanced productivity.
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Fig. 1 is the production line schematic diagram of the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the change in location schematic diagram of upper lower sectional material in embodiment of the present invention manipulator transmission operation;
Fig. 3 is the variation schematic diagram of section bar before and after embodiment of the present invention roll extrusion;
Fig. 4 is the variation schematic diagram of embodiment of the present invention section bar.
Description of symbols in figure: 1-mo(u)ld bottom half material frame machine, 2-mo(u)ld top half material frame machine, 3-laminator, the 4-gulleting machine, 5-conveyer, 6-lower sectional material manipulator, 7-upper sectional material manipulator, 8-fixed conveyor, 9-adhesive tape discharging frame, 10-adhesive tape broken end monitor station, 11-adhesive tape carriage, the automatic machine for stringing of 12-, the 13-roller, the a-lower sectional material, b-upper sectional material, c-adhesive tape.
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Below in conjunction with Figure of description and specific embodiment, the present invention is described in further detail:
The present embodiment is take PX5501 housing bridge insulation thermal resistance aluminium section as example.
Heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, comprise following step:
(1) self-feeding operation: mo(u)ld top half material frame machine 2, mo(u)ld bottom half material frame machine 1 are sent upper sectional material a, lower sectional material b into laminator 3 respectively automatically;
(2) pad pasting and tooth punching operation: 3 pairs of aluminium extruded sectionss of laminator carry out automatic coating, disconnected film, and the section bar after pad pasting automatically enters gulleting machine 4 and carries out tooth punching;
(3) manipulator transmission operation: the section bar after tooth punching enters conveyer 5 and carries out the location, position, lower sectional material manipulator 6 grasps lower sectional material, vertically raise and be traversing, accurately send in fixed conveyor 8, upper sectional material manipulator 7 with upper sectional material grasp, vertically raise, 180 ° of upsets and traversing, accurately send in fixed conveyor 8, this moment, upper sectional material was positioned at above lower sectional material, referring to Fig. 2;
(4) Automatic continuous is worn the bar operation: the guiding mouth mechanism that fixed conveyor 8 is delivered to automatic machine for stringing 12 together with upper lower sectional material positions, and machine for stringing 12 pierces into adhesive tape c in the section groove up and down of accurately having good positioning automatically, and adhesive tape is carried out fixed length and severing.Adhesive tape c one-tenth dish is placed on adhesive tape discharging frame 9, and adhesive tape discharging frame 9, adhesive tape broken end monitor station 10,12 interlocks of automatic machine for stringing are completed aluminium extruded sections and worn bar, adhesive tape fixed length and adhesive tape severing;
(5) rolling step: the section bar that fixed conveyor 8 will be put on bar again is delivered to roller 13 and carries out roll extrusion, and before and after roll extrusion, accompanying drawing 3 is seen in the variation of section bar, and the finished product after roll extrusion transfers out with vertical carriage.
In whole activities, the variation of section bar is referring to accompanying drawing 4.
The aluminium extruded sections of this kind aluminium extruded sections up and down is separated by adhesive tape, and the conduction of the heat of up and down can reduce greatly like this, can play the loss of good protection heat to the building of our inhabitation.
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.Those skilled in the art make the change of unsubstantiality, all fall into protection scope of the present invention.
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- A heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, it is characterized in that comprising the following steps:(1) self-feeding operation: the aluminium extruded sections that will put into the material frame is sent into laminator automatically;(2) pad pasting and tooth punching operation: laminator carries out automatic coating, disconnected film to aluminium extruded sections, and gulleting machine is worn on the notch of adhesive tape tooth punching and hacking and processed at aluminium extruded sections;(3) manipulator transmission operation: lower sectional material, the upper sectional material traversing upset of manipulator after with tooth punching sent into fixed conveyor and waited for and wear bar;(4) Automatic continuous is worn the bar operation: adhesive tape one-tenth dish is placed on the adhesive tape discharging frame, and adhesive tape discharging frame, adhesive tape broken end monitor station, automatic machine for stringing interlock are completed aluminium extruded sections and worn bar, adhesive tape fixed length and adhesive tape severing;(5) rolling step: the roller of sending into after aluminium extruded sections is bulldozed up and down that will put on bar carries out roll extrusion and output.
- Heat-insulating bridge-cut-off according to claim 1 aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, it is characterized in that: described step () is aluminium extruded sections to be emitted on respectively carry out the automatic charging feeding on two bin hoists of parallel placement and be transported to laminator.
- Heat-insulating bridge-cut-off according to claim 1 aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, it is characterized in that: described step (three) manipulator transmission operation is that the lower sectional material after with tooth punching carries out vertical rising and the traversing fixed conveyor that is transported to the lower sectional material manipulator; Upper sectional material with the upper sectional material manipulator after with tooth punching vertically raises, 180 ° of upsets and traversing to fixed conveyors, accurately is positioned at the lower sectional material top.
- Heat-insulating bridge-cut-off according to claim 1 aluminium alloy door window profile automatically wear bar technique, it is characterized in that: described automatic machine for stringing comprises guiding mouth mechanism, the adhesive tape auto counter mechanism of upper lower sectional material location and automatically cuts off adhesive tape mechanism.
- 5. automatically wear bar technique according to what right was wanted 4 described heat-insulating bridge-cut-off aluminium alloy door window profiles, it is characterized in that: described automatic machine for stringing is to rely on the friction pulley on encoder to make pure rolling on adhesive tape, measures needed length.
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