CN202571371U - Multi-hole boring mill with combined boring rod - Google Patents

Multi-hole boring mill with combined boring rod Download PDF

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CN202571371U
CN202571371U CN 201220185348 CN201220185348U CN202571371U CN 202571371 U CN202571371 U CN 202571371U CN 201220185348 CN201220185348 CN 201220185348 CN 201220185348 U CN201220185348 U CN 201220185348U CN 202571371 U CN202571371 U CN 202571371U
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The utility model discloses a multi-hole boring mill with a combined boring rod, comprising a driving device, a boring rod driven by the driving device, and at least two boring cutters arranged on the boring rod, wherein the multi-hole boring mill also comprises a boring platform, a deflection fine adjusting mechanism for adjusting the deflection of the boring rod, and a boring cutter adjusting mechanism used for adjusting the telescopic length of the boring cutters; the boring cutters are respectively arranged in boring cutter mounting holes on the boring rod; a deflection detection hole is arranged on the boring rod; the two ends of the boring rod are respectively connected with two movable support seats; the deflection fine adjusting mechanism is arranged between the two movable support seats and connected with the boring rod; the boring cutter adjusting mechanism is arranged in the boring cutter mounting holes and connected with the boring cutters; and the movable support seats and the deflection fine adjusting mechanism are arranged on the boring platform. According to the multi-hole boring mill, the combined boring rod is adopted, the problem that an ultra-long boring rod is difficult in controlling the deflection, and the deformation is caused, and meanwhile, the deformation amount of the boring rod can be accurately adjusted, and the concentricity and other machining accuracies of a workpiece are ensured.

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The porous boring machine of combined type boring bar
Technical field
The utility model relates to boring machine and makes the field, relates in particular to a kind ofly can mainly be applicable to microscler large-scale metal cabinet bore hole to the porous boring machine of the combined type boring bar of the synchronous bore hole of workpiece porous.
Background technology
In the prior art, no matter being numerical control borer, also is non-numerical control borer, and on structural design, its boring bar is the single pole boring bar.Its weak point: the one, the bore hole and the bore hole efficient that are not suitable for auto parts and components are low; The 2nd, because the bore hole in some parts is a porous, spacing between its porous and required precision are very tight, therefore adopt single pole boring bar bore hole, are difficult to guarantee the precision of its bore hole and the precision between the Kong Yukong.
In addition, the crudy of the cylinder barrel on the cylinder body has material impact to the performance of engine, and the working (machining) efficiency of cylinder barrel has directly determined the output of cylinder body; When processing the cylinder barrel of engine cylinder-body according to existing boring equipment, most modes of carrying out single hole processing one by one that still adopt are carried out heavy boring to each hole successively; Right boring is carried out in tool changing again; Whenever process a hole, when reprocessing next hole, will readjust workbench and carry out centering; Not only waste time and energy, the positional precision between each hole also is difficult to guarantee; Therefore, there is bigger defective in existing cylinder barrel boring equipment aspect product quality, aspect production efficiency, have more deficiency.
In order to address the above problem, following improvement technology has appearred in the prior art:
Chinese patent number " 201020616375.8 " discloses a kind ofly can either can guarantee three high boring machines of spacing precision between three holes again simultaneously to the synchronous bore hole in workpiece three holes, and open day is 2011.08.17; Its motor is installed in the lathe bed end face through angle iron, and electric appliance box is installed on the lathe bed, and the main spindle box base is positioned at lathe bed table top one end; Main spindle box is positioned on the main spindle box base, and control box is positioned at the main spindle box side, the main axis rotation in the electronic drive main spindle box; Three boring bars of said main spindle box output; Sliding seat laterally is positioned on the lathe bed, and slide unit is positioned on the sliding seat, and anchor clamps are positioned on the slide unit.
In addition, Chinese patent number " 201010285648.X " discloses a kind of porous and has processed boring machine simultaneously, and open day is 2010.09.19; It comprises lathe bed, and said lathe bed is provided with main spindle box, and said main spindle box is provided with at least two output shafts with the main shaft interlock; On each said output shaft boring bar is installed; Each said boring bar is corresponding with hole site to be processed, on each said boring bar the heavy boring boring cutter is installed all, and the rear of said heavy boring boring cutter is equipped with the right boring boring cutter; On the said lathe bed in the boring cutter working region workbench is installed, the workpiece special fixture is installed on the said workbench, be provided with the boring bar guider that is used to improve the boring bar rigidity between said workpiece special fixture and the said boring bar.
But it is following not enough that the boring bar of above-mentioned technology all also exists: one, the boring bar in the above-mentioned technology is all shorter; When some workpiece need adopt the overlength boring bar; All there is the deflection deformation problem; The modification amount of boring bar can not be adjusted, and causes workpiece processing concentricity and required precision lower, can't carry out the processing of large-scale metal cabinet.Two, microscler large-scale metal cabinet complex structure, need the hole of boring many, requirement on machining accuracy is high, prior art mainly is employing φ 160, φ 200 boring-mill works, about ten thousand yuan of every equipment 150-500; Can only process a hole at every turn; A Kong Houxu is to workpiece clamping again in each processing, thereby, cause machining accuracy to be difficult to guarantee; Working (machining) efficiency is low, processing cost is high, and general medium-sized and small enterprises can't carry out the processing of large-scale metal cabinet because of investing greatly.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of the utility model is to overcome the problems referred to above that existing boring machine exists; A kind of porous boring machine of combined type boring bar is provided; The utility model adopts the combination boring bar; Solve the problem of the restive amount of deflection modification of overlength boring bar, and the accurate deflection of adjustment boring bar, guarantee concentricity and other machining accuracy of processing work.
For realizing above-mentioned purpose, the technical scheme that the utility model adopts is following:
A kind of porous boring machine of combined type boring bar; Comprise drive unit, by the boring bar of drive device drives be arranged on the boring cutter on the boring bar; It is characterized in that: also comprise the bore hole platform, be used to the boring cutter governor motion regulating the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism of boring bar amount of deflection and be used to regulate the collapsing length of boring cutter; Said boring cutter is at least two, is separately positioned in the boring cutter installing hole on the boring bar, and said boring bar is provided with amount of deflection and detects the hole; The boring bar two ends are connected on the movable supporting seat; The amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism is connected between two movable supporting seats and with boring bar, and the boring cutter governor motion is arranged in the boring cutter installing hole and with boring cutter and is connected, and movable supporting seat and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism are arranged on the bore hole platform.
Said amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism comprises supporting seat, pressing plate, elastomeric pad, bearing, bearing block and adjusting bolt, and bearing block is installed on the supporting seat, and is seated against the displacement of supporting seat on vertically through pressing plate, elastomeric pad and adjusting bolt regulating shaft.
Said bearing block is arranged on the elastomeric pad, and pressing plate is arranged on the bearing block, and supporting seat is provided with adjustment hole, regulates bolt and cooperates with pressing plate through adjustment hole.
Said boring cutter governor motion comprises adjusting rod, adjusting nut and compresses bolt that said boring cutter is regulated collapsing length through adjusting rod and adjusting nut, fixes through compressing bolt.
Said adjusting rod is fixedly connected with boring cutter, and adjusting rod stretches out on the part of boring bar adjusting nut is set, and compresses hold-down apertures and the boring cutter matching and fixing of bolt through being provided with on the boring bar.
Said drive unit is arranged on the main frame guide rail, and drive unit comprises drive motors, power transmission shaft and shaft joint, and power transmission shaft is connected with drive motors, and shaft joint one end is connected with power transmission shaft, and the other end is connected with boring bar.
The supporting seat bottom of said movable supporting seat and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism is provided with slide block, and the bore hole platform is provided with chute, and slide block is positioned at chute.
It is two that said amount of deflection detects the hole, is symmetricly set on the boring bar two ends.
Adopt the advantage of the utility model to be:
One, the utility model also comprises the bore hole platform, is used to the boring cutter governor motion regulating the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism of boring bar amount of deflection and be used to regulate the collapsing length of boring cutter; Said boring cutter is at least two, is separately positioned in the boring cutter installing hole on the boring bar, and said boring bar is provided with amount of deflection and detects the hole; The boring bar two ends are connected on the movable supporting seat; The amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism is connected between two movable supporting seats and with boring bar, and the boring cutter governor motion is arranged in the boring cutter installing hole and with boring cutter and is connected, and movable supporting seat and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism are arranged on the bore hole platform; After adopting the utility model; Solved the problem of the restive amount of deflection modification of overlength boring bar through the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism, and, guaranteed the concentricity and other machining accuracy of processing work through the accurate deflection of adjustment boring bar of boring cutter governor motion.
Two, in the utility model; Said amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism comprises supporting seat, pressing plate, elastomeric pad, bearing, bearing block and adjusting bolt; Bearing block is installed on the supporting seat; And be seated against the displacement of supporting seat on vertically through pressing plate, elastomeric pad and adjusting bolt regulating shaft, adopt the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism of this structure to make the precision of adjusting higher, thereby improve machining accuracy.
Three, in the utility model, said bearing block is arranged on the elastomeric pad, and pressing plate is arranged on the bearing block; Supporting seat is provided with adjustment hole, regulates bolt and cooperates with pressing plate through adjustment hole, regulates bolt and acts on the pressing plate; Make pressing plate downward; And the deflection through elastomeric pad realizes accurate adjustment, regulates simple and conveniently, is convenient to operate.
Four, in the utility model; Said boring cutter governor motion comprises adjusting rod, adjusting nut and compresses bolt; Said boring cutter is regulated collapsing length through adjusting rod and adjusting nut; Fix through compressing bolt, can regulate, guarantee the concentricity and other requirement on machining accuracy of processing work according to the processing size in hole.
Five, in the utility model; Said adjusting rod is fixedly connected with boring cutter; Adjusting rod stretches out on the part of boring bar adjusting nut is set, and compresses hold-down apertures and the boring cutter matching and fixing of bolt through being provided with on the boring bar, and this combination not only is convenient to boring cutter is regulated; And be convenient to fix after regulating, reliability is better.
Six, in the utility model, said drive unit is arranged on the main frame guide rail, and drive unit comprises drive motors, power transmission shaft and shaft joint; Power transmission shaft is connected with drive motors; Shaft joint one end is connected with power transmission shaft, and the other end is connected with boring bar, and this structure has not only guaranteed the reliability of transmission; And drive unit can move quickly into next bore hole position, has improved bore hole efficient.
Seven, in the utility model, the supporting seat of said movable supporting seat and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism bottom is provided with slide block, and the bore hole platform is provided with chute; Slide block is positioned at chute; But to the bore hole position, boring bar can be installed fast at the bottom of this structure fast moving movable supporting seat and the supporting seat, significantly improve working (machining) efficiency; Improve working (machining) efficiency more than 3 times, increase economic efficiency and improve more than 20 ﹪.
Eight, behind employing the utility model; Solve enterprise investment pressure, strengthened enterprise competitiveness, significantly improved the processing work efficiency; Practice thrift equipment investment; The cost of the utility model is 1/2-1/4 of existing φ 160, φ 200 boring and milling machines, has significantly reduced processing cost, significantly increases economic efficiency.
Nine, the boring bar of the utility model has adopted the combination of accurate calibration apparatus structure of amount of deflection and scalable boring cutter structure; Can the hole of workpiece 1.5-2.6M distance be processed simultaneously; The accurate deflection of adjustment boring bar; Solved the difficult problem of the difficult control of overlength boring bar amount of deflection modification, can guarantee the concentricity and other machining accuracy of processing work the synchronous bore hole of workpiece porous.
Ten, in the utility model, it is two that said amount of deflection detects the hole, is symmetricly set on the boring bar two ends, and it is more accurate to detect the amount of deflection that draws through this mode, thereby is convenient to regulate, and further improves the bore hole precision with this.
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Fig. 1 is the utility model structural representation
Fig. 2 is the utility model boring bar structural representation during bore hole on workpiece
Be labeled as among the figure: 1, boring bar, 2, boring cutter, 3, the bore hole platform, 4, the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism, 5, the boring cutter governor motion; 6, amount of deflection detects the hole, and 7, the movable supporting seat, 8, supporting seat, 9, bearing; 10, adjusting rod, 11, compress bolt, 12, the main frame guide rail, 13, drive motors; 14, power transmission shaft, 15, shaft joint, 16, slide block, 17, workpiece.
The specific embodiment
A kind of porous boring machine of combined type boring bar; Comprise drive unit, by the boring bar 1 of drive device drives be arranged on the boring cutter 2 on the boring bar 1; Also comprise bore hole platform 3, be used to the boring cutter governor motion 5 regulating the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism 4 of boring bar 1 amount of deflection and be used to regulate the collapsing length of boring cutter 2; Said boring cutter 2 is at least two, is separately positioned in the boring cutter installing hole on the boring bar 1, and said boring bar 1 is provided with amount of deflection and detects hole 6; Boring bar 1 two ends are connected on the movable supporting seat 7; Amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism 4 is connected between two movable supporting seats and with boring bar 1, and boring cutter governor motion 5 is arranged in the boring cutter installing hole and with boring cutter 2 and is connected, and movable supporting seat 7 is arranged on the bore hole platform 3 with amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism 4.
The preferred implementation of the utility model does; Said amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism 4 comprise supporting seat 8,, pressing plate, elastomeric pad, bearing 9, bearing block and adjusting bolt; Bearing block is installed on the supporting seat 8, and is seated against supporting seat 8 displacement on vertically through pressing plate, elastomeric pad and adjusting bolt regulating shaft.
Further, said bearing block is arranged on the elastomeric pad, and pressing plate is arranged on the bearing block; Supporting seat 8 is provided with adjustment hole, regulates bolt and cooperates with pressing plate through adjustment hole, regulates bolt and presses down pressing plate; Pressing plate presses down bearing block, realizes the amount of deflection accurate adjustment through the deflection of elastomeric pad.
In the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism of the utility model; The structure of regulating through supporting seat, pressing plate, elastomeric pad, bearing, bearing block and adjusting bolt has a lot, for example, can also adopt the mode that bolts and nuts combine of regulating; Therefore, be not limited to above-mentioned embodiment.
The another preferred implementation of the utility model is that said boring cutter governor motion 5 comprises adjusting rod, adjusting nut and compress bolt that said boring cutter 2 is regulated collapsing length through adjusting rod 10 and adjusting nut, and is fixing through compressing bolt 11.
Further, said adjusting rod 10 is fixedly connected with boring cutter 2, and adjusting rod stretches out on the part of boring bar adjusting nut is set, and compresses hold-down apertures and boring cutter 2 matching and fixing of bolt 11 through being provided with on the boring bar 1.
In the boring cutter governor motion of the utility model, above-mentioned embodiment is a best mode, and the mode that can also adopt spring to combine to compress bolt is regulated, and therefore, is not limited to above-mentioned embodiment.
The another preferred implementation of the utility model does; Said drive unit is arranged on the main frame guide rail 12, and drive unit comprises drive motors 13, power transmission shaft 14 and shaft joint 15, and power transmission shaft 14 is connected with drive motors 13; Shaft joint 15 1 ends are connected with power transmission shaft 14, and the other end is connected with boring bar 1.Drive unit is not limited thereto, and also can adopt headstock.
The another preferred implementation of the utility model does, supporting seat 8 bottoms of said movable supporting seat 7 and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism are provided with slide block 16, and bore hole platform 3 is provided with chute, and slide block 16 is positioned at chute.
The another preferred implementation of the utility model does, it is two that said amount of deflection detects hole 6, is symmetricly set on boring bar 1 two ends, but is not limited to two, also can be three etc.During use, can in amount of deflection detects hole 6, put into amesdial, measure and calculate the amount of deflection that draws boring bar, the measurement Calculation Method is a prior art, is not elaborated here, regulates so that carry out amount of deflection.
The operation principle of the utility model is following:
Workpiece 17 is installed boring bar at the workpiece working position after the bore hole platform is fixing, in amount of deflection detects the hole, put into amesdial again; Measurement calculates the amount of deflection of boring bar, carries out the accurate adjustment of amount of deflection through the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism again, after the accurate adjustment of amount of deflection; According to the processing in hole size, through the processing capacity of boring cutter governor motion adjustment boring cutter, fixing boring cutter after adjustment is accomplished; Start drive motors, drive boring bar and carry out the bore hole operation, behind the completion bore hole; The dismounting boring bar moves to next station through main frame guide rail and chute respectively with drive unit, movable supporting seat and supporting seat, and boring bar is installed again; Repeat aforementioned process, carry out the bore hole operation, realize microscler large-scale metal cabinet porous processing.

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1. the porous boring machine of a combined type boring bar; Comprise drive unit, by the boring bar (1) of drive device drives be arranged on the boring cutter (2) on the boring bar (1); It is characterized in that: also comprise bore hole platform (3), be used to the boring cutter governor motion (5) regulating the amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism (4) of boring bar (1) amount of deflection and be used to regulate the collapsing length of boring cutter (2); Said boring cutter (2) is at least two; Be separately positioned in the boring cutter installing hole on the boring bar (1); Said boring bar (1) is provided with amount of deflection and detects hole (6), and boring bar (1) two ends are connected on the movable supporting seat (7), and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism (4) is connected between two movable supporting seats and with boring bar (1); Boring cutter governor motion (5) is arranged in the boring cutter installing hole and with boring cutter (2) and is connected, and movable supporting seat (7) and amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism (4) are arranged on the bore hole platform (3).
2. the porous boring machine of combined type boring bar according to claim 1; It is characterized in that: said amount of deflection fine-tuning mechanism (4) comprises supporting seat (8), pressing plate, elastomeric pad, bearing (9), bearing block and adjusting bolt; Bearing block is installed on the supporting seat (8), and is seated against the displacement of supporting seat (8) on vertically through pressing plate, elastomeric pad and adjusting bolt regulating shaft.
3. the porous boring machine of combined type boring bar according to claim 2 is characterized in that: said bearing block is arranged on the elastomeric pad, and pressing plate is arranged on the bearing block, and supporting seat (8) is provided with adjustment hole, regulates bolt and cooperates with pressing plate through adjustment hole.
4. according to the porous boring machine of claim 1,2 or 3 described combined type boring bars; It is characterized in that: said boring cutter governor motion (5) comprises adjusting rod (10), adjusting nut and compresses bolt (11); Said boring cutter (2) is regulated collapsing length through adjusting rod (10) and adjusting nut, and is fixing through compressing bolt (11).
5. the porous boring machine of combined type boring bar according to claim 4; It is characterized in that: said adjusting rod (10) is fixedly connected with boring cutter (2); Adjusting rod (10) stretches out on the part of boring bar adjusting nut is set, and compresses bolt (11) and goes up hold-down apertures and boring cutter (2) matching and fixing that is provided with through boring bar (1).
6. according to the porous boring machine of claim 1,2,3 or 5 described combined type boring bars; It is characterized in that: said drive unit is arranged on the main frame guide rail (12); Drive unit comprises drive motors (13), power transmission shaft (14) and shaft joint (15); Power transmission shaft (14) is connected with drive motors (13), and shaft joint (15) one ends are connected with power transmission shaft (14), and the other end is connected with boring bar (1).
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