CN113880460B

CN113880460B - Vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace and continuous production line

Info

Publication number: CN113880460B
Application number: CN202111328373.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王立国; 王斐然
Original assignee: Wami Zhenbo Technology Beijing Co ltd
Current assignee: Wami Zhenbo Technology Beijing Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-11-10
Filing date: 2021-11-10
Publication date: 2022-04-08
Anticipated expiration: 2041-11-10
Also published as: CN113880460A

Abstract

The invention relates to a vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace which comprises a furnace body and a plurality of vacuum trolleys which can move relative to the furnace body, wherein a heater for adjusting the temperature is arranged on the wall inside the furnace body, and an opening for allowing the vacuum trolleys to pass through is formed in the wall at the bottom of the furnace body; the vacuum trolley comprises a trolley travelling system, a vacuumizing system, one or more layers of material racks, one or more exhaust heads and an exhaust pipe communicated with the exhaust heads, wherein the exhaust pipe is communicated with the vacuumizing system; the exhaust pipe and the exhaust head extend into the lower part of the air suction port of the vacuum glass workpiece from the side surface of the material rack. The invention also provides a vacuum glass continuous production line. The single furnace has large treatment capacity, and can treat a plurality of pieces of large-size vacuum glass at the same time; the fusion defect of the vacuum glass near the extraction opening can be avoided; the production capacity can be improved, the cost is reduced, the automation is realized, and the quality stability is better controlled.

Description

Vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace and continuous production line

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the field of vacuum glass processing, and particularly relates to a heating furnace and a continuous production line for integrating edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing of vacuum glass.

Background

The edge sealing, air exhaust and sealing device for producing vacuum glass in the prior art generally adopts a plurality of single furnaces to be connected in series to form a production line with the edge sealing and air exhaust and sealing functions for vacuum glass to be processed, each single furnace is independent of an adjacent single furnace, a plurality of layers of supports are arranged in each single furnace, one or more matched two-layer toughened glass to be processed is placed on each layer of support, and in the production process, the air exhaust device for vacuumizing extends to an air exhaust opening of the lower-layer toughened glass to perform pre-air exhaust operation and vacuumizing operation. Such prior art can be found in the patent of "vacuum extractor, vacuum glass manufacturing system and related method" published under the number CN103570229A by beijing new foundational vacuum glass technology limited.

In addition, in the conventional multiple layer glass heating furnace, as shown in fig. 10, a heater and a circulating fan are arranged on the side surface of the furnace body, and the circulating fan directly blows heat of the heater to the glass, and the structure of the heating furnace causes uneven temperature distribution of hot air in the vertical and horizontal directions.

The prior art mentioned above has the following disadvantages: 1. because the air extractor entering the monomer furnace extends upwards from the lower side, the size of the vacuum glass to be processed on the multilayer support is limited, the size of the glass plane on the next layer of support is required to be smaller than that of the glass on the previous layer of support, otherwise, the upward extension of the air extractor is influenced; 2. the vacuum glass produced by the edge sealing, air exhausting and sealing device has defects, and the glass near the air exhaust opening is easy to warp and deform; 3. the hot air has an uneven temperature distribution in the vertical and horizontal directions.

The inventor carefully analyzes and pertinently improves the problems existing in the prior art on the basis of the prior art, and provides the following invention.

Disclosure of Invention

With respect to the above problems of the prior art, the inventor of the present invention has found through careful analysis and experimental operations that the first drawback of the prior art can be solved by changing the access way of the air-extracting device to the vicinity of the air-extracting opening of the tempered glass; for the second defect, because the place where the air exhaust device contacts and seals with the glass is made of metal, the temperature of the toughened glass near the air exhaust opening can be influenced due to the rapid heat conduction effect of the metal when the temperature is raised, and essentially, when the air exhaust device contacts with the lower layer of toughened glass, the air exhaust device absorbs heat from the glass, so that the temperature of the place where the air exhaust device contacts with the glass is lower, the fusion state of the toughened glass at the upper side and the lower side near the air exhaust opening is different from the fusion state of the glass at other parts, and the situation of poor fusion near the air exhaust opening is caused; to the third defect, its root is that hot-air has been blown directly to glass, leads to cold and hot air to come not to be enough intensive mixing, and the solution thinking is to change the flow direction of hot-air, sets up heating blower at the oven roof of heating furnace or oven upper portion, lets heating blower stir the hot-air that the heater produced, and the hot-air is through abundant flow in the heating furnace intracavity, and the cold air intensive mixing inside becomes the even air current of temperature.

Based on the above thought to solve the prior art, the present invention provides the following technical solutions, which can solve at least one technical problem in the prior art.

A vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace comprises a furnace body and a plurality of vacuum trolleys which can move relative to the furnace body, wherein a heater used for adjusting the temperature is arranged on the furnace wall in the furnace body, and an opening for accommodating the vacuum trolleys to pass through is formed in the furnace wall at the bottom of the furnace body;

the vacuum trolley comprises a trolley travelling system, a vacuumizing system, one or more layers of material racks, one or more exhaust heads and exhaust pipes communicated with the exhaust heads, wherein the exhaust pipes are communicated with the vacuumizing system, and each exhaust pipe is independently connected with an electric valve; the exhaust pipe and the exhaust head extend into the lower part of an air suction opening of the vacuum glass workpiece to be vacuumized from the side surface of the material rack.

Further, the exhaust pipes comprise horizontal parts and vertical parts, and the vertical parts of the exhaust pipes are gathered in an exhaust main pipe on the side surface of the material rack; the exhaust head is provided with an up-and-down moving device and can move away from the edge of the vacuum glass workpiece to be edge-sealed through translation or rotation. The advantage that sets up like this is to remove the exhaust head to extraction opening below when needs evacuation, and the sealed extraction opening of back rise is to vacuum glass work piece evacuation, leaves the banding region of vacuum glass work piece when not needing the evacuation, avoids the heat transfer of metal exhaust head to lead to near local temperature reduction of glass extraction opening to lead to the temperature of glass edge sealing inhomogeneous, influence near vacuum glass banding quality and the near sealing strength of extraction opening.

Optionally, the inside rotatory and elevating gear of exhaust head that is provided with of exhaust manifold, the rotatory and elevating gear of exhaust head includes first cylinder body, first piston rod, first fluid is imported and exported, second fluid is imported and exported and the pin, first piston sets up in first cylinder body, S type groove has been seted up on the circumferential surface of first piston, two fluid import and export the middle fixed pin that can stretch into S type inslot portion that is provided with, first piston rod is as an organic whole with first piston connection, the part that first piston rod stretches out first cylinder body is connected with the vertical part of blast pipe.

Optionally, an exhaust head translation and lifting device is arranged inside the exhaust manifold, the exhaust head translation and lifting device includes a fluid cylinder capable of moving linearly and a planar slide, a connecting rod and a slider capable of moving in horizontal and vertical directions, the fluid cylinder includes a second cylinder body, a second piston rod, a third fluid inlet and outlet and a fourth fluid inlet and outlet, the second piston is arranged in the second cylinder body, and the third fluid inlet and outlet and the fourth fluid inlet and outlet are distributed at two ends of the second piston; the second piston rod and the second piston are connected into a whole; the planar slideway comprises a horizontal section and a vertical section, the vertical section and the horizontal section are both provided with grooves for exhaust pipes to pass through, and the exhaust pipes are fixed on the sliding blocks; and two ends of the connecting rod are respectively hinged with the second piston rod and the sliding block in the plane slideway.

Optionally, one side of exhaust head is equipped with the blast pipe, inside first vacuum exhaust pipe and the second vacuum exhaust pipe of being equipped with of blast pipe, evacuation chamber has been seted up at the exhaust head top, evacuation chamber with first vacuum exhaust pipe intercommunication, the below of evacuation chamber is equipped with sealing strip heating device, and sealing strip heating device's top is used for setting up the sealing strip, and sealing strip heating device sets up on lift platform, and lift platform's below is equipped with scalable bellows, and scalable bellows and second vacuum exhaust pipe intercommunication install electric valve on the blast pipe.

Furthermore, a vertical driving mechanism for driving the exhaust head to vertically move and a horizontal driving mechanism for driving the exhaust head to horizontally move are further installed on the exhaust pipe.

Further, the furnace body comprises furnace walls at the top, two sides and the bottom, the heater is arranged on the furnace wall at the top or the upper parts of the two sides, and the heating fan facing the heater is arranged on the furnace wall near the heater.

Furthermore, the heating fan comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, a water cooling system and a control system, and realizes air circulation in the furnace body so as to heat the vacuum glass workpiece; the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

Further, the heater comprises a heating wire, a heating wire fixing device and a heating wire electric control system, and the heater is used for heating air in the furnace body.

Furthermore, a cooling fan is also arranged in the furnace body and comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, wherein the cooling fan realizes the circulation of cold air in the furnace body so as to cool the vacuum glass workpiece; the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

Optionally, a heating and cooling fan is further arranged in the furnace body, and comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, wherein the heating and cooling fan realizes circulation of heating air or cooling air in the furnace body so as to heat or cool the vacuum glass workpiece; the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

Furthermore, the trolley traveling system comprises a driving motor, wheels, a gearbox and a transmission system, wherein the driving motor is a servo motor, a stepping motor or a common motor.

Further, the vacuum pumping system comprises a rough vacuum pump, a low vacuum pump and a high vacuum pump, and realizes the pumping of the pressure in the vacuum glass workpiece from normal pressure to high vacuum such as 10^-5Pa; the air exhaust pipe connected with each pump is provided with an electric valve for controlling the on-off of each air exhaust pipeline; the vacuum pumping system also comprises a measuring system for three vacuum degrees of rough vacuum, low vacuum and high vacuum.

Further, the rough vacuum pump, or the high vacuum pump is not limited to the type of the pump, and may be any pump capable of performing vacuum pumping.

Furthermore, the vacuum-pumping system is arranged on the outer side surface of the furnace body or on the side surface of a furnace door of the vacuum trolley. The arrangement can reduce the overall height of the furnace body or the vacuum trolley and reduce the energy consumption during heating and cooling.

The invention also provides a continuous production line of the vacuum glass, which comprises an upper plate area, a lower plate area and a plurality of heating furnaces connected in series and connecting the upper plate area and the lower plate area, wherein the heating furnaces are the integrated heating furnaces for sealing edges, vacuumizing and sealing the vacuum glass.

Furthermore, a vacuum trolley circulating track is arranged between the upper sheet area and the lower sheet area and used for transferring the vacuum trolley which is unloaded from the lower sheet area and used for transferring the vacuum trolley back to the upper sheet area.

Furthermore, the pressure and temperature of a plurality of heating furnaces connected in series are different to form a plurality of pressure-temperature areas, the vacuum glass workpiece to be processed bears different pressure and temperature in the pressure-temperature areas, and the pressure-temperature areas comprise a normal pressure heating area with the temperature of 20-420 ℃, a normal pressure heat preservation edge sealing area with the temperature of 250-470 ℃, a normal pressure cooling area with the temperature of 470-250 ℃, a vacuum-pumping area with the temperature of 400-240 ℃ and a vacuum sealing area with the temperature of 350-20 ℃.

Further, the plurality of pressure-temperature zones also comprise a cooling zone with the temperature of 350-20 ℃.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. one or more layers of vacuum glass can be arranged in the furnace body of the heating furnace, each layer can be used for placing a plurality of pieces of vacuum glass with the same or different sizes, the single furnace has large treatment capacity, and a plurality of pieces of large-size vacuum glass can be treated simultaneously.

2. The exhaust head can leave the extraction opening through translation or rotation, and the exhaust head can be avoided taking away the heat of upper and lower layer vacuum glass when the banding, avoids vacuum glass because of the inhomogeneous at the extraction opening of temperature, and the bight solder melts poorly, and sealing strength is poor.

3. The exhaust head rotating and lifting device is adopted, and the S-shaped groove is formed in the piston, so that the exhaust head can rotate and lift with a simple structure, the manufacturing cost of the heating furnace is low, and the heating furnace is stable in operation.

4. The exhaust head translation and lifting device is adopted, and translation and lifting of the exhaust head are realized through the fluid cylinder and the plane slideway by a simple structure, so that the manufacturing cost of the heating furnace is low, and the heating furnace is stable in operation.

5. The passage through the control exhaust pipe forms pressure difference between the inside of the telescopic corrugated pipe and the inside of the vacuum pumping chamber, the telescopic corrugated pipe is driven to extend and lift the lifting platform and the sealing piece heating device, and the sealing piece is attached to the pumping hole of the vacuum glass workpiece to finish sealing operation. The exhaust head is convenient to control, low in manufacturing cost and more accurate in movement position control, the force of the sealing sheet pressing on the glass can be accurately controlled between zero pressure and atmospheric pressure, and the sealing sheet is more firmly bonded.

6. The heating circulating fan is arranged on the top of the furnace body and the upper part of the side face, so that air is heated and then is stirred by the fan, cold air and hot air are mixed in an air channel through a longer path, the temperature of the hot air is uniform in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, and the hot air with uniform temperature is blown onto glass to uniformly heat all the glass.

7. The heating fan and the cooling fan are simplified into one fan, and the circulation of air can be realized by heating and cooling.

8. The edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace for vacuum glass can realize a series of operations of edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing of vacuum glass in the heating and cooling processes, and the manufacture of a vacuum glass finished product is finished.

9. The two or more vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnaces are connected together to form a continuous production line, so that large-scale continuous production of the vacuum glass at different temperatures and under different process conditions is realized, the productivity is improved, the production cost of the vacuum glass is reduced, the automation is realized, and the quality stability of products are better controlled.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of the vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of the structure of the heating furnace after the exhaust head of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is rotated 180 along a vertical axis.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of an exhaust head rotating and lifting device of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for sealing, evacuating and sealing vacuum glass edges of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of an exhaust head translation and lifting device of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for sealing, evacuating and sealing vacuum glass edges of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a combination of an exhaust head and an exhaust pipe of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for sealing, evacuating and sealing edges of vacuum glass according to the invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the arrangement of the vacuum-pumping system of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for edge sealing, vacuum-pumping and sealing of vacuum glass according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the vacuum-pumping system of another embodiment of the integrated evacuated glass edge-sealing, evacuating and sealing furnace according to the invention.

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of the continuous vacuum glass production line of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a schematic view showing the arrangement of the heating furnace in one embodiment of the continuous vacuum glass production line of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view showing the arrangement of a heater and a circulating fan of a multi-layer glass heating furnace of the prior art.

Wherein, 100-furnace body, 110-furnace wall, 120-heater, 130-opening, 140-heating fan, 150-cooling fan, 160-circulating air duct, 170-air duct top heat preservation layer, 200-vacuum trolley, 210-trolley traveling system, 211-supporting plate, 212-heat insulation board, 220-vacuum pumping system, 221-rough vacuum pump, 222-low vacuum pump, 223-high vacuum pump, 230-material rack, 240-exhaust head, 241-vacuum pumping chamber, 242-sealing piece heating device, 243-lifting platform, 244-telescopic bellows, 245-sealing ring, 246-sealing piece, 247-conducting wire, 250-exhaust pipe, 251-first vacuum exhaust pipe, 252-second vacuum exhaust pipe, 253-electric valve, 254-vertical drive mechanism, 255-horizontal drive mechanism, 260-exhaust manifold, 270-exhaust head rotation and lifting device, 271-first cylinder, 272-first piston, 2721-S-groove, 273-first piston rod, 274-first fluid inlet/outlet, 275-second fluid inlet/outlet, 276-pin, 280-exhaust head translation and lifting device, 281-second cylinder, 282-second piston, 283-second piston rod, 284-third fluid inlet/outlet, 285-fourth fluid inlet/outlet, 286-plane slideway, 287-connecting rod, 288-slider, 300-upper plate area, 400-lower plate area, 410-storage table, 500-vacuum trolley circulation track, 600-ground track, 700-robot, 800-vacuum glass finished product, W-vacuum glass workpiece.

Detailed Description

In order to make the implementation objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the integrated vacuum glass edge-sealing, vacuumizing, and sealing heating furnace and continuous production line of the present invention are described in more detail below with reference to fig. 1 to 9 in the embodiments of the present invention. The described embodiments are only some, but not all embodiments of the invention. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings:

in the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more; the terms "first," "second," "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in the orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and for simplicity in description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated in a particular manner, and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "communicating" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium; either external or internal communication is possible. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood as appropriate to those of ordinary skill in the art.

As shown in fig. 1, a schematic cross-sectional structure of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for sealing edges, evacuating and sealing vacuum glass according to the present invention includes a furnace body 100 and a plurality of vacuum trolleys 200 movable relative to the furnace body 100, the furnace body 100 is semi-closed, substantially rectangular parallelepiped, and includes a top, left and right sides, a bottom and support legs for supporting the bottom, the front and rear sides of the furnace body 100 are provided with an inlet and outlet for the vacuum trolleys 200 to pass through, a heater 120 for adjusting temperature is provided on a furnace wall 110 inside the furnace body 100, and the furnace wall 110 at the bottom of the furnace body 100 is provided with an opening 130 for allowing the vacuum trolleys 200 to pass through.

The vacuum trolley 200 comprises a trolley walking system 210 at the lower part, a vacuumizing system 220 at the middle part, one or more layers of material racks 230 at the upper part, one or more exhaust heads 240 and exhaust pipes 250 communicated with the exhaust heads 240, wherein the exhaust pipes 250 comprise horizontal parts and vertical parts, the vertical parts of the exhaust pipes 250 are communicated into an exhaust manifold 260 at the side surface of the material racks 230 in a gathering manner, the exhaust pipes 250 are communicated with the vacuumizing system 220, and each exhaust pipe 250 is independently connected with an electric valve 253; specifically, each exhaust pipe 250 and each exhaust head 240 extend from the same side of the rack 230 to below the pumping hole of the vacuum glass W to be pumped.

The vacuum carriage 200 can automatically travel in and out of the furnace body 100, and a position sensor is mounted on the vacuum carriage 200 and automatically stops after traveling to a predetermined position. The contact position of the upper edge of the vacuum trolley 200 and the bottom opening 130 of the furnace body 100 is sealed, the sealing can adopt various temperature-resistant sealing materials, and the sealing structure is not limited.

The number of the exhaust heads 240 and the exhaust pipes 250 is related to the number of layers of the rack 230 and the number of vacuum glass workpieces W to be processed placed on each layer, the area of each layer of the rack 230 is fixed, the area of each vacuum glass workpiece W to be processed can be large or small, for a vacuum glass workpiece W to be processed with a small area, a plurality of vacuum glass workpieces W to be processed can be placed on each layer of the rack 230, and in order to perform edge sealing, vacuum pumping and sealing operations on each vacuum glass workpiece W, a plurality of exhaust heads 240 and exhaust pipes 250 are required to be arranged to deal with vacuum glass workpieces W with different areas and numbers. In practical operation, it is preferable to provide 4 exhaust heads 240 and exhaust pipes 250 for each layer of material rack. When the number of the vacuum glass workpieces W to be processed resting on each layer of the stacks 230 is less than the number of the exhaust heads 240 and the exhaust pipes 250, the suction sources of those idle exhaust pipes 250 can be turned off, for example, by turning off the electric valves 253 connected to the exhaust pipes 250.

The furnace body 100 includes top, both sides and bottom furnace walls 110, a heater 120 is provided on the top or both sides of the upper furnace wall 110, and a heating fan 140 facing the heater 120 is provided on the furnace wall in the vicinity of the heater 120. The furnace body 100 may have a high temperature resistant layer inside, and the furnace body 100 may have a heat insulating layer outside.

The heater 120 includes a heating wire, a heating wire fixing device and a heating wire electric control system, and the heater 120 heats the air in the furnace body 100.

The heating fan 140 comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, a water cooling system and a control system, and realizes air circulation in the furnace body to heat the vacuum glass workpiece W; the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

A cooling fan 150 is also arranged in the furnace body 100 and comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, and the cooling fan realizes the circulation of cold air in the furnace body so as to cool the vacuum glass workpiece; the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

In an alternative embodiment, the heating fan and the cooling fan are simplified into a heating and cooling fan which can blow hot air of the heater and cool air, and the heating and cooling fan comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, and the heating and cooling fan realizes circulation of the heating air or the cooling air in the furnace body to heat or cool the vacuum glass workpiece W.

A circulation duct 160 is formed in a space formed in the furnace body 100 and an upper portion of the vacuum carriage 200, and heated or cooled air flows along the circulation duct 160 by the heating fan 140 or the cooling fan 150, thereby heating or cooling the vacuum glass workpiece W on the stack 230.

An air duct top insulating layer 170 is provided at the upper portion of the circulating air duct 160 and the stack 230 to block a rapid rise of hot air, thereby providing and maintaining sufficient heating time for the vacuum glass workpiece W on the stack 230.

The trolley traveling system 210 includes a driving motor, a wheel, a gearbox and a transmission system, and the driving motor is a servo motor, a stepping motor or a common motor. The wheels may travel on the ground track 600.

The evacuation system 220 includes a rough vacuum pump 221, a rough vacuum pump 222, and a high vacuum pump 223, and is configured to evacuate the pressure in the vacuum glass workpiece W from a normal pressure to a high vacuum, such as 10^-5Pa. The rough vacuum pump 221, the rough vacuum pump 222, or the high vacuum pump 223 is not limited to the type of pump, and may be any pump capable of vacuum pumping.

The vacuum pumping system 220 further comprises control valves of the pumps, and the exhaust pipes 250 connected to each pump are provided with electric valves 253 for controlling the on-off of each exhaust pipe 250.

The vacuum pumping system 220 further comprises a measuring system for three vacuum levels of rough vacuum, low vacuum and high vacuum.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the exhaust head 240 has an up-and-down movement means and is capable of moving away from the edge of the vacuum glass work piece W to be edge sealed by translation or rotation.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, when the exhaust head 240 is rotated away from the edge of the vacuum glass work piece W to be edge sealed, a rotary drive mechanism is provided at the position where the exhaust tube 250 is collected in the exhaust manifold 260, so that the exhaust tube 250 and the exhaust head 240 can be rotated along a vertical axis, for example, the axis of a piston rod (not shown) connected to the vertical portion of the exhaust tube 250, which is installed in the exhaust manifold 260, preferably by 90-180 °.

As shown in fig. 3, the rotation driving mechanism may be an exhaust head rotation and lifting device 270 disposed inside the exhaust manifold 260, the exhaust head rotation and lifting device 270 includes a first cylinder 271, a first piston 272, a first piston rod 273, a first fluid inlet and outlet 274, a second fluid inlet and outlet 275, and a pin 276, the first piston 272 is disposed inside the first cylinder 271, an S-shaped groove 2721 is formed on a circumferential surface of the first piston 272, the pin 276 capable of extending into the S-shaped groove 2721 is fixedly disposed between the two fluid inlet and outlet (273,274), the first piston rod 273 and the first piston 272 are integrally connected, and a portion of the first piston rod 273 extending out of the first cylinder 271 is connected to a vertical portion of the exhaust pipe 250. The exhaust pipe 250 is divided into a horizontal portion, an end of which is connected to the exhaust head 240, and a vertical portion, which is disposed inside the exhaust manifold 260 and may be fixedly connected to the horizontal portion through a quarter bend. In operation, fluid such as gas or liquid enters the first cylinder 271 through one of the fluid inlets and outlets (274,275), and drives the first piston 272 to move towards the other fluid inlet and outlet (274,275), so as to cause the length of the first piston rod 273 outside the first cylinder 271 to be lengthened or shortened, that is, cause the exhaust head 240 to lift; meanwhile, due to the existence of the pin 276, when the pin 276 enters the S-shaped groove 2721, the pin 276 interacts with the groove wall of the S-shaped groove 2721 to cause the first piston 272 to rotate, which causes the first piston rod 273 to rotate, which in turn causes the exhaust pipe 250 connected to the first piston rod 273 to rotate, and the exhaust pipe 250 drives the exhaust head 240 to rotate, thereby realizing the rotation of the exhaust head 240, wherein the rotation angle may be 90-180 °. If fluid enters the first cylinder 271 from the opposite direction, it causes reverse lift and rotation of the exhaust head 240. Here, the vertical axis about which the exhaust head 240 rotates is the axis of rotation of the piston 272.

With the exhaust head rotating and lifting device 270, the fluid drives the first piston rod 273 to rotate 90 or 180 degrees, so as to drive the exhaust head 240 to rotate to the position below the glass exhaust opening along the vertical axis of the first piston 272, the pin 276 is taken out of the S-shaped groove, and the fluid drives the first piston rod 273 to vertically rise to press and attach the exhaust head 240 to the glass, thereby performing vacuum pumping. And conversely, the exhaust head rotates 90 or 180 degrees to separate from the surface of the glass after descending.

In another alternative embodiment, when the exhaust head 240 is moved away from the edge of the vacuum glass work piece W to be edge sealed by translation, a left-right translation and lifting mechanism is provided in the exhaust manifold 260 to move the exhaust tube 250 left, right, and up and down so that the exhaust head 240 is moved away from the edge of the vacuum glass work piece W to be edge sealed.

As shown in fig. 4, the left-right translation and lift mechanism may be an exhaust head translation and lift device 280 disposed inside the exhaust manifold 260, the exhaust head translation and lift device 280 including a fluid cylinder capable of linear motion including a second cylinder 281, a second piston 282, a second piston rod 283, a third fluid inlet/outlet 284 and a fourth fluid inlet/outlet 285, and a planar slide 286, a connecting rod 287 and a slider 288 capable of generating motion in horizontal and vertical directions, the second piston 282 being disposed inside the second cylinder 281, the third fluid inlet/outlet 284 and the fourth fluid inlet/outlet 285 being distributed at both ends of the second piston 282; the second piston rod 283 is integrally connected to the second piston 282; the planar slideway 286 comprises a horizontal section and a vertical section, the vertical section and the horizontal section are both provided with grooves for the exhaust pipe 250 to pass through, and the exhaust pipe 250 is fixed on the sliding block 288; both ends of the connecting rod 287 are hinged to the second piston rod 283 and the sliding block 288 in the planar sliding channel 286, respectively. Fluid such as gas or liquid enters the second cylinder 281 through the fourth fluid inlet/outlet 285, and pushes the second piston 282 and the second piston rod 283 to move leftward, the connecting rod 287 drives the sliding block 288 to translate along the horizontal segment of the planar slideway 286 first and then ascend along the vertical segment, and the exhaust pipe 250 fixedly connected with the sliding block 288 also drives the exhaust head 240 to move horizontally leftward first and then ascend vertically; conversely, fluid entering the second cylinder 281 through the third fluid port 284 causes the exhaust head 240 to lower and then move horizontally to the right.

With the exhaust head translation and lifting device 280, the fluid drives the slider 288 and the exhaust pipe 250 thereon to drive the exhaust head 240 to translate below the glass exhaust opening, and the fluid drives the slider 288 and the exhaust pipe 250 thereon to vertically ascend in a straight line, so that the exhaust head 240 is tightly pressed and attached to the glass, and the glass can be vacuumized. Conversely, the exhaust head 240 is lowered and then translated away from the glass surface.

Referring to fig. 5, which is a schematic view of a combination structure of an exhaust head and an exhaust pipe of an embodiment of the integrated furnace for sealing, evacuating and sealing vacuum glass edges of a vacuum glass workpiece W according to the present invention, an exhaust head 240 is capable of performing operations of evacuating and sealing a vacuum glass workpiece W. An exhaust pipe 250 is arranged on one side of the exhaust head 240, a first vacuum exhaust pipe 251 and a second vacuum exhaust pipe 252 are arranged in the exhaust pipe 250, an evacuation chamber 241 is arranged at the top of the exhaust head 240, the evacuation chamber 241 is communicated with the first vacuum exhaust pipe 251, a sealing piece heating device 242 is arranged below the evacuation chamber 241, a sealing piece 246 is arranged at the top of the sealing piece heating device 242, the sealing piece heating device 242 is arranged on a lifting platform 243, a telescopic corrugated pipe 244 is arranged below the lifting platform 243, the telescopic corrugated pipe 244 is communicated with the second vacuum exhaust pipe 252, and an electric valve 253 is arranged on the exhaust pipe 250.

The sealing sheet heating device 242 is connected with a lead 247 for connecting a power supply for supplying power to the sealing sheet heating device 242.

In actual production, a vacuum layer is arranged in the middle of a vacuum glass workpiece W to be vacuumized, an air suction opening is formed in tempered glass at the bottom of the vacuum glass workpiece W, when the vacuum trolley 200 is used for vacuumizing, firstly, the exhaust head 240 is placed below the vacuum glass workpiece W, the position of the air suction opening of the vacuum glass workpiece W is aligned with that of the vacuum chamber 241 above the exhaust head 240, then, the vacuum chamber W is connected with a power supply through a wire 247, one end of the first vacuum exhaust pipe 251 and one end of the second vacuum exhaust pipe 252 are connected with the external vacuum system 220, the electric valve 253 is opened, and the air inside the vacuum layer is vacuumized through the exhaust head 240, the first vacuum exhaust pipe 241 and the air suction opening of the vacuum glass workpiece W. At the same time, the inside of the bellows 244 is evacuated through the second vacuum exhaust pipe 252. At this time, the inside of the bellows 244 and the inside of the evacuation chamber 241 are both in a vacuum state, and they are isolated from each other and not communicated with each other, so that there is no pressure difference, and the bellows 244 does not expand.

After the evacuation is completed, the sealing piece heating device 242 melts the sealing solder attached to the surface of the sealing piece 246, the second vacuum exhaust pipe 252 is connected to the outside through the electric valve 253, air enters the interior of the flexible bellows 244 along the second vacuum exhaust pipe 252, so that a pressure difference is formed between the interior of the flexible bellows 244 and the interior of the evacuation chamber 241, i.e. the pressure inside the bellows 244 is greater than the pressure inside the evacuation chamber 241, the telescopic bellows 244 is extended to lift the lifting platform 243 and the sealing piece heating device 242, so as to control the opening degree of the electric valve 253, the extension speed of the telescopic bellows 244 can be controlled, the sealing sheet 246 is attached to the suction opening of the vacuum glass workpiece W, and at the moment, the sealing sheet 246 and the vacuum glass workpiece W are attached together by the molten sealing solder, so that the vacuum pumping and sealing operations of the vacuum glass workpiece W are realized.

In production, can be directly with the extraction opening of vacuum glass work piece W to adjust evacuation chamber 241 on the exhaust head 240 well, open electric valve 253 again, evacuation system 220 operation can carry out the evacuation to the inside vacuum layer of vacuum glass work piece W automatically, seals vacuum glass's extraction opening through closing piece 246 automatically simultaneously after the evacuation is accomplished to realized that vacuum glass work piece W exhausts and seals disposable completion, degree of automation is high, and the evacuation is fast efficient.

The exhaust pipe 250 is further provided with a vertical driving mechanism 254 for driving the exhaust head 240 to vertically move and a horizontal driving mechanism 255 for driving the exhaust head 240 to horizontally move. The vertical drive mechanism 254 and/or the horizontal drive mechanism 255 may be a motor drive mechanism, a cylinder drive mechanism, or a hydraulic drive mechanism.

The above-mentioned embodiments all show the advantages of the integrated edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing heating furnace for vacuum glass, and because the vacuum trolley type heating furnace is adopted, and a vacuum system, a material rack and an exhaust device such as a vacuum pump are mounted on a travelling mechanism trolley, the integrated edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing heating furnace for vacuum glass has the following characteristics.

(1) The integrated level is high, and the integrated level can be used as an independent unit, and the number of the integrated units can be combined at will to form production lines with different capacities.

(2) A plurality of spare trolleys can be arranged and replaced at any time, so that the service life of the production line after the production line is connected is ensured, and the normal production of the production line is not influenced by maintenance.

(3) Because the heating furnace is hot-worked, the processing and manufacturing difficulty is highest, and the vacuum trolley type furnace body greatly reduces the manufacturing difficulty of the heating furnace.

(4) In order to reduce the difficulty of manual loading, the conventional trolley is provided with a vacuum system on the side surface of the trolley instead of the lower surface, and the vacuum system can only be made into a single furnace, cannot be connected into a production line and cannot realize automatic large-scale production.

(5) The important points are: the structure unitizes the furnace body and the vacuumizing operation, can be made into a single furnace, and can also be connected into a production line, so that large-scale automatic production is realized, and the design period, the manufacturing cost, the manufacturing period and the processing and manufacturing difficulty of the production line are greatly simplified.

In addition, the combination of the furnace body 100 and the vacuum trolley 200 can be modified for different processes and energy saving requirements, for example, in an alternative embodiment, the vacuum-pumping system 220 of the vacuum trolley 200 can be installed on the outer side of the furnace body 100, in this scheme, the vacuum-pumping system 220 of the vacuum trolley 200 and the material rack 230 are in different areas, wherein the material rack 230 can carry the vacuum glass work pieces W which are conveyed into the furnace body 100 by the trolley traveling system 210, the vacuum-pumping system 220 is arranged outside the furnace body 100, the vacuum-pumping system 220 is communicated with the exhaust main 260, and a plurality of exhaust pipes 250 extending from the exhaust main 260 parallelly penetrate through the furnace wall 110 of the furnace body 100 and then are connected with the exhaust head 240, as shown in fig. 6.

During operation, the trolley traveling system 210 of the vacuum trolley 200 is stopped at a predetermined position according to a predetermined program, at this time, the exhaust head 240 is just under the exhaust opening of the vacuum glass workpiece W loaded on the material rack 230, and after the edge sealing, vacuum pumping or sealing operation is completed, the trolley traveling system 210 is loaded with the material rack 230 and the vacuum glass workpiece W thereon and enters the next working position. Such an arrangement can reduce the overall height of the furnace body 100, reduce the space volume of the furnace body 100, and reduce the energy consumption during heating and cooling.

In another alternative embodiment, the vacuum pumping system 220 may be disposed on the outer side of the furnace body 100, in this scheme, the vacuum pumping system 220 and the material rack 230 are disposed in parallel on the supporting plate 211 on the upper portion of the trolley traveling system 210 of the vacuum trolley 200, the supporting plate 211 may be made of a heat insulating material, or may be a layer of a heat insulating material disposed on a common steel plate, and a heat insulating plate 212 is disposed between the vacuum pumping system 220 and the material rack 230, as shown in fig. 7.

During operation, the vacuum trolley 200 is stopped at a predetermined position according to a predetermined program, at this time, the heat insulation board 212 is just blocked at the door opening of the furnace body 100, the rack 230 on the left side of the heat insulation board 212 and the vacuum glass workpiece W placed thereon are heated or cooled in the furnace body 100, and the vacuum pumping system 220 on the right side of the heat insulation board 212 does not enter the furnace body 100. Such an arrangement can reduce the overall height of the furnace body 100 and the vacuum carriage 200, reduce the spatial volume of the furnace body 100, and reduce the energy consumption during heating and cooling. Meanwhile, the vacuum-pumping system 220 can be prevented from being exposed to a high-temperature environment for a long time, and the service life of the vacuum-pumping system 220 can be prolonged.

Referring to fig. 8, a schematic structural view of an embodiment of the continuous vacuum glass manufacturing line according to the present invention is shown, wherein the continuous vacuum glass manufacturing line comprises an upper sheet area 300 and a lower sheet area 400, and a plurality of furnaces connected in series and connecting the upper sheet area 300 and the lower sheet area 400, wherein the furnaces are the above-mentioned edge-sealing, vacuum-sealing and integrated vacuum glass edge-sealing furnaces.

In the upper sheet area 300, a robot 700 for loading and a supply table for loading a vacuum glass workpiece W to be processed are provided, the robot 700 transfers the vacuum glass workpiece W to be processed on the supply table to the vacuum trolley 200, and a standby vacuum trolley 200 is provided in the upper sheet area 300 so that a defective trolley can be replaced in time when a failure occurs in an individual vacuum trolley 200.

In the sheet feeding area 400, a robot 700 for feeding and a storage table 410 for storing the processed vacuum glass products 800 are provided, and the robot 700 transfers the cooled vacuum glass products 800 from the vacuum cart 200 to the storage table 410.

A vacuum trolley circulating track 500 is further arranged between the upper sheet area 300 and the lower sheet area 400, and is connected with a ground track 600 of the vacuum glass edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace into a whole for transferring the vacuum trolley 200, which is unloaded from the vacuum glass finished product 800 in the lower sheet area 400, back to the upper sheet area 300.

As shown in FIG. 9, in the continuous production line of vacuum glass of the present invention, a plurality of heating furnaces connected in series are provided with a vacuum trolley temperature-partitioned heat insulation board 212 to form a plurality of pressure-temperature zones, the pressure and temperature of the vacuum glass workpiece W before and after the heat insulation board are different, and the plurality of pressure-temperature zones include an atmospheric heating zone with a temperature of 20 ℃ to 420 ℃, an atmospheric heat insulation edge sealing zone with a temperature of 250 ℃ to 470 ℃, an atmospheric cooling zone with a temperature of 470 ℃ to 250 ℃, a vacuum pumping zone with a temperature of 400 ℃ to 240 ℃, a vacuum sealing zone with a temperature of 350 ℃ to 20 ℃ and a cooling zone with a temperature of 350 ℃ to 20 ℃.

In the normal-pressure heating zone, heating the vacuum glass workpiece W from room temperature to a preset temperature to prepare for edge sealing to be performed; in the normal-pressure heat-preservation edge sealing area, the vacuum glass workpiece W is sealed at the temperature required by edge sealing; in the normal-pressure cooling area, the temperature of the vacuum glass workpiece W is reduced to the temperature for vacuumizing; in the vacuumizing area, the vacuum glass workpiece W is vacuumized; in the vacuum sealing area, the extraction opening of the vacuum glass workpiece W is sealed; in the cooling zone, the vacuum glass workpiece W is cooled to become a vacuum glass product 800.

The above examples are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. But all equivalent changes and modifications within the scope of the present invention should be considered as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace for the vacuum glass comprises a furnace body (100) and a plurality of vacuum trolleys (200) which can move relative to the furnace body, wherein a heater (120) for adjusting the temperature is arranged on a furnace wall (110) in the furnace body (100), and an opening (130) for accommodating the vacuum trolleys (200) to pass through is formed in the furnace wall (110) at the bottom of the furnace body (100);

the vacuum trolley (200) comprises a trolley travelling system (210), a vacuum pumping system (220), one or more layers of material racks (230), one or more exhaust heads (240) and exhaust pipes (250) communicated with the exhaust heads (240), wherein the exhaust pipes (250) are communicated with the vacuum pumping system (220), and each exhaust pipe (250) is independently connected with an electric valve (253); the exhaust pipe (250) and the exhaust head (240) extend into the lower part of an exhaust opening of a vacuum glass workpiece (W) to be vacuumized from the side surface of the material rack (230);

the exhaust pipes (250) comprise horizontal parts and vertical parts, and the vertical parts of the exhaust pipes (250) are gathered in an exhaust manifold (260) on the side surface of the rack (230); the exhaust head (240) is provided with an up-and-down moving device and can move away from the edge of the vacuum glass workpiece (W) to be edge-sealed through translation or rotation;

the exhaust head rotating and lifting device (270) is arranged inside an exhaust manifold (260), the exhaust head rotating and lifting device (270) comprises a first cylinder body (271), a first piston (272), a first piston rod (273), a first fluid inlet and outlet (274), a second fluid inlet and outlet (275) and a pin (276), the first piston (272) is arranged inside the first cylinder body (271), an S-shaped groove (2721) is formed in the circumferential surface of the first piston (272), the pin (276) capable of extending into the S-shaped groove (2721) is fixedly arranged in the middle of the two fluid inlet and outlet (274,275), the first piston rod (273) is connected with the first piston (272) into a whole, and the part of the first piston rod (273) extending out of the first cylinder body (271) is connected with the vertical part of an exhaust pipe (250).

2. The edge sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace for the vacuum glass comprises a furnace body (100) and a plurality of vacuum trolleys (200) which can move relative to the furnace body, wherein a heater (120) for adjusting the temperature is arranged on a furnace wall (110) in the furnace body (100), and an opening (130) for accommodating the vacuum trolleys (200) to pass through is formed in the furnace wall (110) at the bottom of the furnace body (100);

the exhaust head translation and lifting device (280) is arranged inside the exhaust manifold (260), the exhaust head translation and lifting device (280) comprises a fluid cylinder capable of moving linearly, a plane slide way (286), a connecting rod (287) and a slide block (288) capable of generating movement in the horizontal and vertical directions, the fluid cylinder comprises a second cylinder body (281), a second piston (282), a second piston rod (283), a third fluid inlet and outlet (284) and a fourth fluid inlet and outlet (285), the second piston (282) is arranged in the second cylinder body (281), and the third fluid inlet and outlet (284) and the fourth fluid inlet and outlet (285) are distributed at two ends of the second piston (282); the second piston rod (283) and the second piston (282) are connected into a whole; the plane slideway (286) comprises a horizontal section and a vertical section, the vertical section and the horizontal section are both provided with grooves for the exhaust pipe (250) to pass through, and the exhaust pipe (250) is fixed on the sliding block (288); two ends of the connecting rod (287) are respectively hinged with the second piston rod (283) and a slide block (288) in the plane slide way (286).

3. The integrated furnace for sealing and evacuating vacuum glass edges and sealing of claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that one side of the exhaust head (240) is provided with an exhaust pipe (250), a first vacuum exhaust pipe (251) and a second vacuum exhaust pipe (252) are arranged in the exhaust pipe (250), the top of the exhaust head (240) is provided with an evacuation chamber (241), the evacuation chamber (241) is communicated with the first vacuum exhaust pipe (251), a sealing sheet heating device (242) is arranged below the vacuum pumping chamber (241), the top of the sealing sheet heating device (242) is used for arranging a sealing sheet (246), the sealing sheet heating device (242) is arranged on a lifting platform (243), a telescopic corrugated pipe (244) is arranged below the lifting platform (243), the telescopic bellows (244) is communicated with a second vacuum exhaust pipe (252), and an electric valve (253) is installed on the exhaust pipe (250).

4. The integrated furnace for vacuum edge sealing, vacuum sealing and heating of vacuum glass according to claim 3, wherein the exhaust tube (250) is further provided with a vertical driving mechanism (254) for driving the exhaust head (240) to move vertically and a horizontal driving mechanism (255) for driving the exhaust head (240) to move horizontally.

5. The vacuum glass edge-sealing, vacuumizing and sealing integrated heating furnace according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the furnace body (100) comprises a top, two sides and a bottom furnace wall (110), the heater (120) is arranged on the top or two upper furnace walls (110), and a heating fan (140) facing the heater (120) is arranged on the furnace wall (110) near the heater (120).

6. The integrated furnace for sealing and vacuumizing a vacuum glass according to claim 5, wherein a cooling fan (150) is further arranged in the furnace body (100) and comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, and the cooling fan realizes cold air circulation in the furnace body to cool the vacuum glass workpiece (W); the water cooling system ensures the cooling of the motor shaft and prevents the motor shaft from deforming due to high temperature.

7. The integrated furnace for sealing and vacuumizing a vacuum glass according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a heating and cooling fan is further arranged in the furnace body (100) and comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a coupler, an air duct control valve, a water cooling system and a control system, and the heating and cooling fan realizes circulation of heating air or cooling air in the furnace body (100) to heat or cool the vacuum glass workpiece (W).

8. The evacuated glass edge sealing, evacuating and sealing integrated furnace according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the evacuating system (220) comprises a rough vacuum pump (221), a rough vacuum pump (222) and a high vacuum pump (223) for evacuating the pressure in the evacuated glass workpiece (W) from atmospheric pressure to high vacuum; the system also comprises control valves of the pumps, wherein the exhaust pipes (250) connected with each pump are provided with electric valves (253) for controlling the on-off of each exhaust pipe (250); the vacuum pumping system (220) further comprises a measuring system for three vacuum degrees of rough vacuum, low vacuum and high vacuum.

9. The integrated furnace for sealing and sealing vacuum glass edges and vacuum sealing of claims 1 or 2, wherein the vacuum-pumping system (220) is installed on the outer side of the furnace body (100) or on the side of the furnace door of the vacuum trolley (200).

10. A continuous vacuum glass production line comprising an upper zone (300) and a lower zone (400), and a plurality of furnaces connected in series for connecting the upper and lower zones, wherein the furnaces are vacuum glass edge-sealing, vacuum sealing and integrated furnaces according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

11. A vacuum glass continuous manufacturing line according to claim 10, characterized in that a vacuum trolley circulating track (500) is further provided between the upper sheet area (300) and the lower sheet area (400) for transferring the vacuum trolley (200) after unloading the vacuum glass workpiece (W) from the lower sheet area (400) back to the upper sheet area (300).

12. The continuous vacuum glass production line according to claim 10, wherein a plurality of the heating furnaces connected in series have a difference in pressure and temperature to form a plurality of pressure-temperature zones in which the vacuum glass workpiece (W) to be processed is subjected to different pressures and temperatures, and the plurality of pressure-temperature zones include an atmospheric heating zone having a temperature of 20 ℃ to 420 ℃, an atmospheric heat-insulating edge-sealing zone having a temperature of 250 ℃ to 470 ℃, an atmospheric cooling zone having a temperature of 470 ℃ to 250 ℃, a vacuum-pumping zone having a temperature of 400 ℃ to 240 ℃ and a vacuum-sealing zone having a temperature of 350 ℃ to 20 ℃.

13. The continuous vacuum glass production line of claim 12, wherein the plurality of pressure-temperature zones further comprises a cooling zone having a temperature of 350 ℃ to 20 ℃.