EP0227275B1 - Apparatus for treating machined objects - Google Patents

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EP0227275B1
EP0227275B1 EP86308692A EP86308692A EP0227275B1 EP 0227275 B1 EP0227275 B1 EP 0227275B1 EP 86308692 A EP86308692 A EP 86308692A EP 86308692 A EP86308692 A EP 86308692A EP 0227275 B1 EP0227275 B1 EP 0227275B1
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Miguel Agullo Negui
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24C—ABRASIVE OR RELATED BLASTING WITH PARTICULATE MATERIAL
    • B24C3/00—Abrasive blasting machines or devices; Plants
    • B24C3/08—Abrasive blasting machines or devices; Plants essentially adapted for abrasive blasting of travelling stock or travelling workpieces
    • B24C3/083—Transfer or feeding devices; Accessories therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/02—Cleaning by the force of jets or sprays

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  • the machined objects are, for example, motor vehicle components and are subject to treatments such as sand blasting, washing and drying.
  • Patent specification US-A 4 476 627 discloses a machine for automatically assembling equipment composed of parts at least some of which are arranged on a carrier.
  • the machine includes a plurality of assembly stations, a set of conveyers and loading and unloading stations.
  • At each assembly station there are two conveyers, a carrier loader having two sets of suspension pawls and a shiftable table arranged to move in the horizontal direction of movement of the carrier loader.
  • the carrier loader moves downwardly so that one set of pawls engages the carrier, lifts the carrier up and carries it towards the shiftable table.
  • the carrier loader then moves downwardly so that the second set of pawls engages a second carrier supported by the shiftable table and then moves upwardly.
  • the shiftable table then moves to a position underneath the first carrier, the carrier loader then moves downwardly and places the first carrier on the shiftable table, moves upwardly and carries the second carrier to the second conveyer, where it will place the second carrier on the second conveyer and pick up a third carrier from the first conveyer.
  • Patent Specifications such as EP-A 0 022 307, EP-A 0 065 861 and ES-A 8 600 978 disclose apparatus for treating machined objects.
  • Patent Application EP-A 0 110 525 in particular discloses apparatus which comprises a plurality of stations, there being a treatment chamber at at least one station, a transfer mechanism for transferring objects from one station to another, and means for carrying an object into and out from the treatment chamber and supporting the object whilst it is being treated, the carrying means and the treatment chamber being horizontally movable with respect to each other, and the carrying means and the transfer mechanism being vertically movable with respect to each other.
  • the transfer mechanism is a walking beam mechanism adapted to carry the objects in one rectilinear horizontal direction.
  • the treatment chamber is disposed to one side of the horizontal direction. On the other side is a robot with a horizontal arm and a clamp at the free end of the arm. In use of the apparatus, each object is picked up by the clamp from the transfer mechanism, raised vertically and inserted horizontally along the length of the arm into the chamber.
  • the clamp can rotate about the horizontal axis of the arm.
  • the present invention is characterised in that the carrying means comprises a cradle adapted to receive and support the object to be treated and the transfer mechanism is arranged to place the object in the cradle.
  • the cradle may be arranged to execute a vertical movement with respect to the transfer mechanism, and the treatment chamber may be arranged to execute a horizontal movement with respect to the cradle.
  • the transfer mechanism is arranged to have a horizontal direction of movement, a downward direction of movement after placing an object in the cradle for treatment and an upward direction of movement to collect an object from the cradle after treatment
  • the treatment chamber is disposed to one side of the horizontal direction of movement of the transfer mechanism
  • the cradle is arranged to have a horizontal direction of movement cross-wise of the horizontal direction of movement of the transfer mechanism.
  • Figure 1 shows a treatment station in apparatus for treating machined objects.
  • the apparatus comprises a transfer mechanism, which includes bars 6, for transferring the objects from one treatment station to another in a horizontal direction.
  • Two box shaped housings 7 and 8 are disposed an opposite sides of the bars 6.
  • Each housing 7, 8 defines a treatment chamber with openings facing each other.
  • Two cradles 1 and 2 which face the respective openings of the housings 7 and 8, are supported by an upstanding wall 3, cradle 2 being vertically aligned with the bars 6.
  • the wall 3 depends from a carriage 4 which is connected to a hydraulic piston and cylinder device 5.
  • the bars 6 of the transfer mechanism have a pre-determined forward stepping distance at the end of which the object to be treated is positioned inside one of the cradles 1, 2.
  • the bars 6 then move downwardly leaving the object supported by the cradle 1, 2.
  • the hydraulic cylinder 5 is activated to move the carriage 4 and thus the cradles 1, 2 horizontally cross-wise of the bars 6 and cause the respective cradle to carry the object into the treatment chamber of one of the housings 7 and 8.
  • This movement brings the other cradle 1, 2 out of the other treatment chamber carrying another object, its treatment at this station being completed.
  • This other cradle 1, 2 is vertically aligned with the bars 6.
  • the bars 6 move upwardly to collect the other object, move forward the pre-determined distance to bring a third object into the other cradle 1, 2 and then move donwardly again to leave the third object in the other cradle.
  • the boxes 7 and 8 comprise housings fed with washing liquid when there is a part or object inside them.
  • the housing is completely closed on all sides, except one which is the one through which the applicable cradle and the respective part enters.
  • FIG. 2 shows that box 7 is formed with hollow walls, through the interior of which circulates the washing liquid or the drying air.
  • nozzles 9 On the inside wall are mounted nozzles 9 through which liquid or air is discharged, and a large apertured tubular nozzle 10 is arranged extending inside the part to be washed, whilst the latter is in the box.
  • Box 7 is furnished with a washing liquid intake through a four-way automatic valve 11, which is fed through a duct 12 coming from a main pump 13.
  • Box 8 is fed through a duct 14 from the pump 13 through another four-way valve 15.
  • One outlet of each valve 14, 15 feeds the respective box, the other one discharges the liquid to a collecting tank or sump 20 and the other is blind, that is, it does not have a outlet.
  • Box 7 has an outlet duct 16 for the used dirty liquid (or air, in the case of blowing), and a similar duct 17 is arranged for box 8.
  • the liquid leaving ducts 16 and 17 passes through a bottom grating 18 and along duct 19 to the tank 20, that collects and filters the used liquid.
  • Boxes 7 and 8 have elastic joints 21, so that vertical wall 3 can close tightly the chamber where the part 22 to be washed is supported by the cradle 1.
  • Vertical support wall 3 comprises a movable box and is formed by two independent chambers 23 and 24, so that chamber 23 closes, and has a functional relation with, the box 7 and chamber 24 closes, and has a functional relation with the box 8.
  • chamber 23 may be fed either directly from box 7, at the same time as it closes the chamber, or else through an independent valve mounted on the carriage 4. The same applies to the chamber 24; it may be fed by box 8.
  • Each housing box 7, 8 has an external thermal and/or acoustic insulation 26, so that the general noise inside the box is kept low and/or heat loss is minimised.
  • Figure 3 represents a construction in which, in use, cradles 31 rotate in order to wash the part more thoroughly. These cradles rotate once they are inside box 7, while the washing or blowing is carried out. When they are outside box 7, or at the moment of loading and unloading the part, they are in a vertical position.
  • Vertical support wall 3 is in this case divided into two parts, each of which supports an independent cradle 31.
  • Each rotating cradle 31 has hollow arms 32, which have the double function of supporting the part to be washed and at the same time channelling the washing liquid through nozzles 33 similar to those arranged on box 7. In order to feed liquid to both these arms, there is a rotatable coupling 34 for each rotary cradle 31.
  • Figure 4 represents box 7 with its side walls 27 and 28 joined on vertical hinges 29 and 30, so that once these walls are open access is gained to inside the box and inside the walls 27 and 28, which also have washing spray nozzles, as they are really parts composing the washing or blowing box 7.
  • FIG. 5 shows in more detail the above-mentioned rotary mechanism of Figure 3.
  • Hollow support arms 32, with nozzles 33, are joined to the rotary cradle 31, part of which extends into vertical support wall 3 and is joined to gear ring 35.
  • the gear ring 25 is rotatable on a ring 36 that is joined to central wall 37, which forms a part of the supporting wall 3.
  • Gear ring 35 is driven by a pinion gear 38, that is rotatably driven by a motor 39, electric or hydraulic, mounted fixed and joined to the support wall 3.
  • the rotary coupling 34 fixed to the wall 3, and inside which rotates cradle 31, has radial ducts 40 through which passes the liquid or air feeding the hollow arms 32.
  • the fluid enters the rotary coupling 34 through a flexible tube 41.
  • FIG. 6 shows the construction of a complete machine, with a washing station with two housings 42, a blowing station with two housings 43 with compressed air and multiple drying stations 44 for treating several parts at the same time.
  • a central support wall 45 carried three pairs of cradles for placing three objects at the same time in the three stations 44 formed by the housing 46 in which there are arranged blowing nozzles 47.
  • a similar housing 48 is located on the other side. At the given moment shown, the cradles supported by the central support wall 45 move parts 49, 50 and 51 to the transfer mechanism, while they carry parts 52, 53 and 54 into the stations 44 on the opposite side formed by housing 48.
  • Housings 46 and 48 are fed alternately by air coming from a fan 55, according to the position of automatic flap valve 56, so that it only feeds the housing closed by the support wall 45.
  • support wall 45 is formed by two separate chambers.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Heat Treatments In General, Especially Conveying And Cooling (AREA)
  • Drying Of Solid Materials (AREA)
  • Threshing Machine Elements (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
  • Cleaning In General (AREA)
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EP86308692A 1985-11-11 1986-11-07 Apparatus for treating machined objects Expired - Lifetime EP0227275B1 (en)

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ES549405 1985-11-11
ES549405A ES8801770A1 (es) 1985-11-11 1985-11-11 Perfeccionamientos en maquinas para el lavado de piezas me- canizadas

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ES2008801A6 (es) * 1988-05-04 1989-08-01 Agullo Ing Perfeccionamientos en maquinas para el lavado de piezas mecanizadas.
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US7146991B2 (en) 2002-01-23 2006-12-12 Cinetic Automation Corporation Parts washer system
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