Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is as follows: the problems of unsafe feeding and discharging and low efficiency of a forging press in the prior art are solved.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: the feeding and discharging industrial robot for the forging press comprises a feeding device arranged beside the forging press, a discharging device arranged beside the forging press and a control unit;
the feeding device comprises a lifting mechanism and a horizontally arranged pushing mechanism, wherein the lifting mechanism is vertically arranged on the rack and is positioned above a horizontally placed blank, the lifting mechanism lifts the blank to the pushing mechanism, and when the pushing mechanism pushes rightwards, the blank moves to the position above a workbench of the forging machine tool along with the pushing mechanism;
the blanking device comprises a material taking mechanism and a lifting mechanism, the material taking mechanism is arranged on the movable end of the lifting mechanism, the material taking mechanism is positioned above a finished product on the workbench when taking materials, and the lifting mechanism is connected with the control unit;
the feeding device, the forging machine tool and the discharging device are all connected to the control unit.
Preferably, the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting cylinder connected with the control unit and a lifting sucker horizontally arranged at the lower end of a piston rod of the lifting cylinder.
Preferably, the pushing mechanism comprises a pushing cylinder connected with the control unit and a pushing sucker horizontally arranged at the right end of a piston rod of the pushing cylinder.
Preferably, the pushing mechanism further comprises a pushing guide pillar horizontally arranged along the left-right direction, and the pushing sucker slides left and right along the pushing guide pillar under the driving of the pushing cylinder.
Preferably, the feeding device further comprises a pushing lifting mechanism vertically arranged on the rack, the movable end of the pushing lifting mechanism is fixedly connected with the pushing mechanism, and the pushing lifting mechanism is connected to the control unit.
Preferably, the pushing lifting mechanism is a pushing lifting cylinder, and a piston rod of the pushing lifting cylinder is connected to the pushing mechanism.
Optimized, loading attachment still includes that the horizontal slip sets up the blank storage mechanism in carrying the below of drawing mechanism, blank storage mechanism includes the storage slide rail that sets up along the fore-and-aft direction level, install blank storage bottom plate together with the cooperation of storage slide rail, the vertical blank reference column that sets up on blank storage bottom plate, set up the blank storage bottom plate actuating mechanism at storage slide rail tip, the blank reference column sets up two at least, all blank reference columns are along the direction evenly distributed of storage slide rail, blank storage bottom plate actuating mechanism's expansion end is connected to on the blank storage bottom plate, blank storage bottom plate actuating mechanism drives blank storage bottom plate and makes a round trip to slide along the storage slide rail, blank storage bottom plate actuating mechanism is connected to the control unit, the blank cover is piled up together on the blank.
Preferably, the feeding device further comprises a rack sliding rail horizontally arranged along the front-back direction, a rack bottom plate and a rack bottom plate sliding rail horizontally arranged along the left-right direction; the rack is arranged on the rack sliding rail in a sliding manner, the rack sliding rail is arranged on the rack bottom plate, and the rack bottom plate is arranged on the rack bottom plate sliding rail in a sliding manner.
Preferably, the material taking mechanism comprises a vertically arranged motor, a material taking swing arm horizontally arranged on the motor driving end, and a material taking sucker horizontally arranged on the material taking swing arm and far away from one end of the motor, the motor is arranged on the movable end of the lifting mechanism, and the motor is connected to the control unit.
Preferably, the blanking device further comprises a horizontally arranged material taking slide rail, a material taking mechanism bottom plate slidably mounted on the material taking slide rail, and a finished product material storing bottom plate slidably mounted on the material taking slide rail;
the lifting mechanism is arranged on the material taking mechanism bottom plate, a finished product positioning column is vertically arranged on the finished product material storing bottom plate, and a finished product taken out of the workbench by the material taking mechanism falls down from the top of the finished product positioning column and is sleeved on the finished product positioning column.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the machine replaces manpower to carry out feeding and discharging work of the forging machine tool, so that the safety and the production efficiency of feeding and discharging can be effectively improved;
2. the material is sucked by the sucking disc, so that the material can be quickly and accurately transferred on the premise of not damaging the material;
3. the blank storage bottom plate slides back and forth on the storage slide rail, so that when a blank on a front blank positioning column is used up, a blank on another blank positioning column can be timely fed up to avoid production stop due to feeding, and meanwhile, the blank can be filled into the used blank positioning column for subsequent feeding, so that the production efficiency is improved;
4. the frame slides back and forth on the frame slide rail, and the frame bottom plate slides left and right on the frame bottom plate slide rail, so that the position of the feeding device relative to the forging machine tool workbench can be adjusted according to requirements in actual production, accurate feeding is facilitated, and the feeding quality is ensured;
5. the material taking mechanism bottom plate slides on the material taking slide rail, so that the position of the material taking mechanism relative to a forging machine tool workbench can be adjusted according to actual requirements, accurate blanking is facilitated, and the blanking quality is ensured;
6. finished product storage bottom plate is slided on getting the material slide rail to adjust the position of finished product storage bottom plate for extracting mechanism according to actual demand, so that the finished product accurately falls on the finished product reference column, retrieve the finished product smoothly.
Detailed Description
The present invention is described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, the forging press feeding and discharging industrial robot includes a feeding device 1 disposed beside a forging press 2, a discharging device 3 disposed beside the forging press 2, and a control unit (not shown in the figure), wherein the feeding device 1 in this embodiment is disposed on the left side of the forging press 2, and the discharging device 3 is disposed on the right side of the forging press 2.
The feeding device 1, the forging machine tool 2 and the discharging device 3 are all connected to a control unit, and the control unit is used for controlling the movement of the feeding device 1, the forging machine tool 2 and the discharging device 3.
Referring to fig. 5, which shows a blank 41 in the present embodiment, the feeding device 1 is used for transferring the blank 41 to the worktable 21 of the forging machine 2, while fig. 6 shows a finished product 42 after the blank 41 is processed by the forging machine 2, and the discharging device 3 is used for transferring the finished product 42 from the forging machine 2.
As shown in fig. 1-3, the feeding device 1 includes a lifting mechanism 11 vertically arranged on a frame 14, and a horizontally arranged pushing mechanism 12, wherein the lifting mechanism 11 is located above a horizontally arranged blank 41, the lifting mechanism 11 lifts the blank 41 to the pushing mechanism 12, when the pushing mechanism 12 pushes rightward, the blank 41 moves to above a workbench 21 of the forging machine 2 along with the pushing mechanism 12, and then the pushing mechanism 12 puts the blank 41 on the workbench 21 of the forging machine 2, i.e. the feeding action is completed.
As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the pulling mechanism 11 includes a pulling cylinder 111 connected to the control unit, and a pulling suction cup 112 horizontally disposed at a lower end of a piston rod of the pulling cylinder 111, in this embodiment, one pulling cylinder 111 is disposed, the piston rod of the pulling cylinder 111 faces downward, the pulling cylinder 111 is located at a top end of the frame 14, the pulling suction cups 112 in this embodiment are four, the four pulling suction cups 112 are uniformly distributed at a lower end of the piston rod of the pulling cylinder 111, and an open end of the pulling suction cup 112 faces the horizontally disposed blank 41, when the pulling cylinder 111 drives the pulling suction cup 112 to descend to an upper surface of the blank 41, the pulling suction cup 112 sucks one blank 41, and then the pulling cylinder 111 lifts the pulling suction cup 112 together with the blank 41 to the pushing mechanism 12.
In addition, in order to ensure the smoothness of the movement of the lifting mechanism 11 when lifting the blank 41, a guide post, a guide sleeve or a slide rail may be arranged between the lifting mechanism 11 and the frame 14 to cooperate with the slide block for guiding.
The cylinder and the sucker in the embodiment are both connected with an external air source, and the air source provides power for the movement of the cylinder and provides air for the sucker.
As shown in fig. 1-3, the pushing mechanism 12 includes a pushing cylinder 121 connected to the control unit, a pushing suction cup 122 horizontally disposed at the right end of a piston rod of the pushing cylinder 121, the pushing mechanism 12 further includes a pushing guide post 123 horizontally disposed along the left-right direction, the pushing suction cup 122 slides left and right along the pushing guide post 123 under the driving of the pushing cylinder 121, the feeding device 1 further includes a pushing lifting mechanism 13 vertically disposed on the rack 14, a movable end of the pushing lifting mechanism 13 is fixedly connected to the pushing mechanism 12, and the pushing lifting mechanism 13 is connected to the control unit. The pushing lifting mechanism 13 is a pushing lifting cylinder, and a piston rod of the pushing lifting cylinder is connected to the pushing mechanism 12.
In this embodiment, one pushing cylinder 121 is disposed, a piston rod of the pushing cylinder 121 faces right, one pushing lifting cylinder is disposed, a piston rod of the pushing lifting cylinder faces downward, the pushing lifting cylinder is fixed at a lower end of the piston rod of the pushing lifting cylinder through a fixing frame, two pushing guide pillars 123 are disposed, two pushing guide pillars 123 are also fixed on the fixing frame, four pushing suction cups 122 are disposed with openings facing downward and are disposed on a lower surface of a pushing slider, the pushing slider is fixed at a right end of the piston rod of the pushing cylinder 121, the pushing slider is installed in cooperation with the pushing guide pillars 123, the lifting cylinder 111 lifts the lifting suction cup 112 together with the blank 41 to the pushing mechanism 12, the pushing suction cup 122 is sucked on an upper surface of the blank 41, the lifting suction cup 112 continues to move upward after releasing the blank 41 so as to interfere with the movement of the pushing mechanism 12, and then the pushing cylinder 121 pushes the pushing slider to drive the pushing suction cups 122 and the blank 41 And (3) pressing the workbench 21 of the machine tool 2, then pushing the lifting mechanism 13 to move downwards to drive the pushing mechanism 12 to move downwards, then pushing the suction cup 122 to loosen the blank 41, and placing the blank 41 on the workbench 21 of the forging machine tool 2 to finish the feeding work.
In order to ensure the stability and accuracy of the movement of the pushing and lifting mechanism 13, a guide post, a guide sleeve or a slide rail can be arranged between the pushing and lifting mechanism 13 and the frame 14 to cooperate with the slide block for guiding.
As shown in fig. 1-3, the feeding device 1 further includes a blank storage mechanism 15 horizontally disposed below the lifting mechanism 11 in a sliding manner, the blank storage mechanism 15 includes a storage slide rail 151 horizontally disposed along the front-back direction, a blank storage bottom plate 152 installed together with the storage slide rail 151 in a matching manner, blank positioning pillars 153 vertically disposed on the blank storage bottom plate 152, and a blank storage bottom plate driving mechanism 154 disposed at the end of the storage slide rail 151, the blank positioning pillars 153 are at least two, all the blank positioning pillars 153 are uniformly distributed along the direction of the storage slide rail 151, the blank positioning pillars 153 in this embodiment are two, and the two blank positioning pillars 153 are located on the same blank storage bottom plate 152.
The movable end of the blank storage base plate driving mechanism 154 is connected to the blank storage base plate 152, the blank storage base plate driving mechanism 154 drives the blank storage base plate 152 to slide back and forth along the storage slide rail 151, the blank storage base plate driving mechanism 154 is connected to the control unit, and the blanks 41 are stacked together by being sleeved on the blank positioning columns 153.
As shown in fig. 7, when the blank 41 on the previous blank positioning column 153 is used up, the blank storage base plate driving mechanism 154 drives the blank storage base plate 152 to move along the storage slide rail 151, and moves the second blank positioning column 153 to the position right below the lifting mechanism 11, so as to avoid stopping production due to continuous feeding, and simultaneously, the blank 41 can be added to the used blank positioning column 153 for subsequent continuous feeding, thereby improving the production efficiency.
As shown in fig. 1-3, the feeding device 1 further includes a rack slide rail 16 horizontally arranged along the front-back direction, a rack bottom plate 17, and a rack bottom plate slide rail 18 horizontally arranged along the left-right direction; the rack 14 is slidably mounted on rack slide rails 16, the rack slide rails 16 are disposed on a rack base plate 17, and the rack base plate 17 is slidably mounted on rack base plate slide rails 18.
The frame 14 slides back and forth on the frame slide rails 16, and the frame bottom plate 17 slides left and right on the frame bottom plate slide rails 18, so that the position of the feeding device relative to the workbench 21 of the forging machine tool 2 can be adjusted according to requirements in actual production, accurate feeding is facilitated, and the feeding quality is ensured.
As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the blanking device 3 includes a material taking mechanism 31 and a lifting mechanism 32, the material taking mechanism 31 is disposed on a movable end of the lifting mechanism 32, the material taking mechanism 31 is located above a finished product 42 on the workbench 21 when taking materials, and the lifting mechanism 32 is connected with the control unit.
As shown in fig. 1, 2, and 4, the material taking mechanism 31 includes a vertically arranged motor 311, a material taking swing arm 312 horizontally arranged at a driving end of the motor 311, and a material taking suction cup 313 horizontally arranged at one end of the material taking swing arm 312 far away from the motor 311, the motor 311 is arranged at a movable end of the lifting mechanism 32, and the motor 311 is connected to the control unit.
The material taking suction cups 313 in the embodiment are four, and the openings of the four material taking suction cups 313 face downwards and are distributed at one end of the material taking swing arm 312, which is far away from the motor 311.
As shown in fig. 1, 2, and 4, the blanking device 3 further includes a horizontally disposed material taking slide rail 33, a material taking mechanism bottom plate 34 slidably mounted on the material taking slide rail 33, and a finished product storage bottom plate 35 slidably mounted on the material taking slide rail 33, where the material taking slide rail 33 in this embodiment is disposed on the right side of the forging machine 2 along the front-back direction.
Elevating system 32 sets up on picking mechanism bottom plate 34, and the vertical finished product reference column 351 that is provided with on the finished product stock bottom plate 35, picking mechanism 31 follow the finished product 42 that takes out on workstation 21 and fall and overlap on finished product reference column 351 from finished product reference column 351 top.
The motor 311 drives the material taking swing arm 312 to rotate above the finished product 42, the lifting mechanism 32 drives the material taking mechanism 31 to descend, the material taking suction cup 313 is sucked on the upper surface of the finished product 42, then the lifting mechanism 32 drives the material taking mechanism 31 to ascend, the motor 311 drives the material taking swing arm 312 to rotate above the finished product positioning column 351, the material taking suction cup 313 loosens the finished product 42, and the finished product 42 falls down and is sleeved on the finished product positioning column 351, so that the blanking is completed.
In addition, all be provided with the couple that lifts by crane the usefulness on blank storage bottom plate 152 and the finished product storage bottom plate 35 to lift blank storage bottom plate 152 and finished product storage bottom plate 35 according to the demand when actual production, make things convenient for the transition of material.
The working principle is as follows:
as shown in fig. 8, the pulling mechanism 11 is lowered, and the pulling suction cup 112 sucks the blank 41;
as shown in fig. 9, the blank 41 is lifted to the pushing mechanism 12 by the lifting suction cup 112, and the blank 41 is sucked by the pushing suction cup 122;
as shown in fig. 10, the pulling suction cup 112 continues to move upward after releasing the blank 41 so as not to interfere with the movement of the pushing mechanism 12;
as shown in fig. 11, the pushing cylinder 121 pushes the pushing suction cup 122 to move above the worktable 21 together with the blank 41;
as shown in fig. 12, the pushing and lifting mechanism 13 drives the pushing mechanism 12 to descend, and the blank 41 is placed on the worktable 21;
as shown in fig. 13, the pushing suction cup 122 rises to the original height after releasing the blank 41;
as shown in fig. 14, the pushing cylinder 121 pulls the pushing suction cup 122 to return to the original position, and the forging machine 2 processes the blank 41 into the finished product 42;
as shown in fig. 15, the motor 311 drives the material taking swing arm 312 to rotate above the worktable 21;
as shown in fig. 16, the lifting mechanism 32 drives the material taking mechanism 31 to descend, and the material taking suction cup 313 sucks on the finished product 42;
as shown in fig. 17, the lifting mechanism 32 drives the material taking mechanism 31 to lift, and the motor 311 drives the material taking swing arm 312 to rotate above the finished product positioning column 351;
as shown in fig. 18, the product 42 is released by the take-out suction cups 313 and the product 42 falls down and fits over product locator posts 351.
The above actions are repeated to complete the feeding and discharging work of the forging machine tool 2.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.