EP0392003A1 - Single-purpose machine for processing lead armatures for manufacturing accumulators - Google Patents

Single-purpose machine for processing lead armatures for manufacturing accumulators

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EP0392003A1
EP0392003A1 EP89911591A EP89911591A EP0392003A1 EP 0392003 A1 EP0392003 A1 EP 0392003A1 EP 89911591 A EP89911591 A EP 89911591A EP 89911591 A EP89911591 A EP 89911591A EP 0392003 A1 EP0392003 A1 EP 0392003A1
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lead
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accumulators
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Lászlo Dr. Toth
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M4/00Electrodes
    • H01M4/02Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material
    • H01M4/64Carriers or collectors
    • H01M4/70Carriers or collectors characterised by shape or form
    • H01M4/72Grids
    • H01M4/73Grids for lead-acid accumulators, e.g. frame plates
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22DCASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D25/00Special casting characterised by the nature of the product
    • B22D25/02Special casting characterised by the nature of the product by its peculiarity of shape; of works of art
    • B22D25/04Casting metal electric battery plates or the like
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M4/00Electrodes
    • H01M4/02Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material
    • H01M4/64Carriers or collectors
    • H01M4/82Multi-step processes for manufacturing carriers for lead-acid accumulators
    • H01M4/84Multi-step processes for manufacturing carriers for lead-acid accumulators involving casting
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10Energy storage using batteries

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  • the invention relates to a single-purpose machine for processing lead armatures for manufacturing accumulators.
  • SUBSTITUTE SHEET The aim of present invention is to develop a machine (according to figure 1) with axial intake and radial arrangement, with which lead armatures needed for manufacturing accumulators can be made with any option - an alloy or unalloyed lead, with optional thickness and optional geometry of grids (as it becomes abvious from figs. 3a and 3b), including grids with Ca-alloy and grids of the Coorens-type.
  • the high-speed quick-casting process is a complex centrifugal casting method having been realized with a rotary motion, by the aid of which "single-dimensional" a ⁇ d"double-dimensio ⁇ al” castings with proper division can be produced simultaneously and in a high number (mass-production).
  • "single-dimensional" a ⁇ d"double-dimensio ⁇ al” castings with proper division can be produced simultaneously and in a high number (mass-production).
  • moulds are used for casting lead grids.
  • These moulds resp. dies are made of thin aluminium sheets or ceramics forming a packet of sheets, which are covered on both sides with a thicker cover-sheet each. Tangential plane of the sheets is formed by the dividing plane.- On both sides of the sheets a halved profiled cavity is formed and so, that the cavity-halves facing each other form the profiled cavity of the casts. A halved cavity each is to be found on the inner surface of the covering sheets. Profiled sheets having been assembled into a packet form a profile packet.
  • N-1 pcs of intermediate profile sheets and 2 pcs of covering sheets having a half- cavity on one side In case, if we intend to cas N-1 pieces of casts, we need for this action N-1 pcs of intermediate profile sheets and 2 pcs of covering sheets having a half- cavity on one side, as it becomes obvious from Figure 2.
  • Output of casting process will be fundamentally defined by the number of the profiled cavities within one packet i.e. N pcs; in the centrifugal machine number of the profiled packets to be cast simultaneously amounts to M pieces, wherein cycle-time of casting equals to T/s/:
  • profile-packets should be emptied at a high temperature, while lead grids are to be cooled possibly quickly (hardening), at last, in dependence of the alloy used, natural or artificial ageing is required.
  • Figure 4 illustrates the version of the apparatus being suitable for mass production.
  • the apparatus comprises all structural elements needed for production, arranged in the mechanized line, as follows:
  • Preheater is formed as a tunnel, while intake and outtake openings of the tunnel are closed by the "profile packets" Formation of working area complies
  • Profile packets are pushing each other forwards owing to the force exerted by the pushing cylinder arranged at the force part of the tunnel.
  • profile packets are lead and supported by sliding plates provided with graphite insert. Packets are pushed one by one by the pushing cylinder, as a consequence, at the other end profile packets are leaving one by one.
  • Rotary unit There are four identical rotary units provided
  • Profile packets are charged resp. removed from below, by means of a lifting cylinder.
  • the rotary unit is covered resp. enclosed by a casing, which serves for the purposes of health protection, thermal insulation and aesthetics.
  • Said casing is provided with a melt-feeding opening in the axis of rotation.
  • Profile packets are to be compressed with a force of lOkN to assure that melt could not escape in course of casting on the dividing plane at a number of re ⁇ volutions of 200/mi ⁇ .
  • the mechanism exerting compressive force is actuated by the pushing force of the lifting cylinder .
  • Holding means Formation is identical with that of the preheater, as described in the relating chapter, however it works et a lower temperature and smaller output. Holding is most important from two points of view: partly heating energy may be saved, partly quick cooling of lead grids having been cast from tempered lead alloys, from a high temperature, can be achieved. Disassembly means The task of said means lies in to unfold the
  • SUBSTITUTE SHEET profile packets to such an extent and for a period, which are needed for allowing the lead grid to fall out from the profile sheets.
  • Essentially it is a tank filled with water; keeping at the required temperature is achieved by feeding fresh water controlled with a thermostat(cooling water system with recirculation) .

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Abstract

La présente invention se rapporte à un équipement de coulage par centrifugation avec admission axiale et disposition radiale, qui sert à réaliser des formes pour la préparation d'armatures en plomb en vue de la fabrication d'accumulateurs. Les armatures peuvent être fabriquées en plomb allié ou non allié, avec géométrie des grilles et épaisseur optionnelle, et une vitesse de production extrêmement élevée peut être atteinte. Le moule est fabriqué en feuilles d'aluminium minces ou en céramique ayant la forme d'un paquet de feuilles recouvertes des deux côtés par une plaque de revêtement plus épaisse. Le plan de division est constitué par le plan tangentiel des feuilles. De chaque côté des feuilles est formée une demi-cavité et, ainsi, les demi-cavités situées en face l'une de l'autre forment la cavité profilée du produit coulé. Sur les plaques de revêtement uniquement la surface interne est creuse. On peut obtenir, avec les N-1 pièces de feuilles minces qui ont été pressées entre les deux plaques de revêtement, N pièces de produits coulés. On peut disposer sur l'équipement N pièces de paquets profilés, ce qui permet de produire en un cycle M.N pièces. Grâce au système de moule utilisé pour les feuilles minces, la consommation d'énergie peut être maintenue à un niveau faible et une productivité élevée peut en même temps être obtenue par coulage de plomb sans sublimation, après chauffage du plomb à une température élevée.The present invention relates to centrifugal casting equipment with axial inlet and radial arrangement, which is used to produce forms for the preparation of lead reinforcements for the manufacture of accumulators. The reinforcements can be fabricated from alloyed or unalloyed lead, with optional grid geometry and thickness, and extremely high production speed can be achieved. The mold is made of thin aluminum foils or ceramic in the shape of a packet of foils covered on both sides by a thicker coating plate. The division plane is formed by the tangential plane of the leaves. On each side of the sheets is formed a half-cavity and, thus, the half-cavities located opposite one another form the profiled cavity of the cast product. On the facing plates only the internal surface is hollow. With the N-1 pieces of thin sheets which have been pressed between the two cover plates, N pieces of castings can be obtained. N pieces of profiled packages can be placed on the equipment, which makes it possible to produce M.N pieces in one cycle. With the mold system used for the thin sheets, the power consumption can be kept low, and at the same time high productivity can be achieved by casting lead without sublimation, after heating the lead to a high temperature.

Description

SINGLE-PURPQSE MACHINE FOR PROCESSING LEAD ARMATURES FOR MANUFACTURING ACCUMULATORS
The invention relates to a single-purpose machine for processing lead armatures for manufacturing accumulators.
As it is well-known from the present practice of manufacturing accumulators, lead armatures (grids, connecting means) needed for production involve serious technical problems in course of processing, endangering simultaneously health.
From the point of view of mechanics we are con- fronted with the main problem, in so far as presently used laddie pouring appliances based on gravity are able to process lead alloyed with antimony (Sb) only with defined parameters (thickness, geometry of grids), involving considerable disadvantages in the field of application, namely with accumulators; accumulators having been prepared with the aforementioned grids tend considerably to self-discharge; a further problem lies in the fact that in order to achieve proper speed of production, in course of processing lead alloy is used to be processed at a high temperature, immediately in the environment of eutectic, resulting in considerable problems in respect to health protection due to the sublimating characteristic of the lead. In such a manner presently used laddie pouring appliances and technology of production - resulting from Physico- technical laws - are unable to meet optimally re¬ quirements of accumulator production.
SUBSTITUTE SHEET The aim of present invention is to develop a machine (according to figure 1) with axial intake and radial arrangement, with which lead armatures needed for manufacturing accumulators can be made with any option - an alloy or unalloyed lead, with optional thickness and optional geometry of grids (as it becomes abvious from figs. 3a and 3b), including grids with Ca-alloy and grids of the Coorens-type.
Owing to the utmost high productiπg velocity of the equipment it is well suitable for high-speed casting - further on HSC - , simultaneously, in comparison to presently applied casting methods based on gravity energy consumed is lower by an order of magnitude.
Accordingly, the high-speed quick-casting process is a complex centrifugal casting method having been realized with a rotary motion, by the aid of which "single-dimensional" aπd"double-dimensioπal" castings with proper division can be produced simultaneously and in a high number (mass-production). Under single- dimensioned casts bars are meant, while as "double- dimensional" products sheets and "planar grids" made of bars are produced.
In course of the HSC-process special moulds are used for casting lead grids. These moulds resp. dies are made of thin aluminium sheets or ceramics forming a packet of sheets, which are covered on both sides with a thicker cover-sheet each. Tangential plane of the sheets is formed by the dividing plane.- On both sides of the sheets a halved profiled cavity is formed and so, that the cavity-halves facing each other form the profiled cavity of the casts. A halved cavity each is to be found on the inner surface of the covering sheets. Profiled sheets having been assembled into a packet form a profile packet. In case, if we intend to cas N-1 pieces of casts, we need for this action N-1 pcs of intermediate profile sheets and 2 pcs of covering sheets having a half- cavity on one side, as it becomes obvious from Figure 2. Output of casting process will be fundamentally defined by the number of the profiled cavities within one packet i.e. N pcs; in the centrifugal machine number of the profiled packets to be cast simultaneously amounts to M pieces, wherein cycle-time of casting equals to T/s/:
N.M
"1 T pcs/a/ (1) In order to be able to perform casting repeatedly and cyclically, the following operative steps are needed with the profile-packets:
- pre-heating,
- compression
- centrifugal casting
- centrifugal cooling (slightly below temperature of solidification),
- holding according to necessity
- disassembly (emptying the profile-packet)
- manipulation of the profile-packet, as required by the process.
It is necessary that profile-packets should be emptied at a high temperature, while lead grids are to be cooled possibly quickly (hardening), at last, in dependence of the alloy used, natural or artificial ageing is required.
SUBSTITUTE SH' £Ϊ Interpretation of the denominations, as used in the specification of the process: Normal grid = lead grid built-in into the accumulator twin-grid = a pair of grids cast in one profile-cavity (2 pcs normal grids) intermediate profile sheet = an aluminium sheet, wherein on one sheet- surface one cavity- half of the twin-grid is formed, while on the other sheet surface the other cavity-half for the twin-grid is to be found covering profiled sheet = thicker aluminium sheet covering the packet consisting of the intermediate profiled sheets (2pcs are needed for one packet; on the surface facing inwards of one of the sheets there is one cavity-half of the twin-grid, while on the other surface facing inward the other cavity half for the twin-grid is formed) profile packet = a packet consisting of the intermediate and covering sheets
SUBSTITUTE: SH; a set = number of pieces of the profile packets which can be simultaneously cast charge for casting = the quantity of lead needed for casting one set, i.e. the product of the number of twin-grids having been cast in one set and of the piece-weight of the twin-grids, cycle time = average interval between two casting processes following one another. Figure 4 illustrates the version of the apparatus being suitable for mass production. The apparatus comprises all structural elements needed for production, arranged in the mechanized line, as follows:
1) melting furnace
2) pump for the lead
3) feeding shaft
4) preheater
5) rotary table with rotary units for four operative steps
6) holding means
7) diesasse bly unit
8) grid cooler
9) transporting, sorting and stacking means for the grids.
Preheater
Preheater is formed as a tunnel, while intake and outtake openings of the tunnel are closed by the "profile packets" Formation of working area complies
SUBSTITUTE SHEET wuth heat transfer by air-circulation. Profile packets are pushing each other forwards owing to the force exerted by the pushing cylinder arranged at the force part of the tunnel. In the furnace profile packets are lead and supported by sliding plates provided with graphite insert. Packets are pushed one by one by the pushing cylinder, as a consequence, at the other end profile packets are leaving one by one.
As a thermal source for the preheater the traditional electric resistor is used, or one can use a gas- or oil heated radiating tube (Technical University, Budapest was commissioned to test applicability of high-frequency heating in industry. Experiments will be evaluated at the end of 1989). Rotary table
It is a rotary table performing discontinuous revolutions, receiving four rotary units; the table can be fixed in four positions. Operations to be performed in four positions are as follows: - charging the profile packets into the rotary unit,
- casting while performing the rotary motion (centri¬ fugal casting)
- cooling (according to necessity while performing rotary motion) - removal of the rotating packets from the rotary unit.
Putting into rotation (shifting) of the rotary table is realized by friction. drive. Positioning with required accuracy is performed by a separate mechanism.? - Principle of driving, fixing and braking is shown in the kynematic diagramme. Rotary unit There are four identical rotary units provided
SUBSTITUTE SI ~IZET for. Every one carries four profile packets each, in the middle the distributing shaft is arranged, therefrom melt is flowing radially into the profile packets arranged along the periphery. In position of casting - in case of necessity in cooling position too - continuous rotary motion is performed, while in the position of charging and removal the rotary motion is ciscoπtiπuous .
Profile packets are charged resp. removed from below, by means of a lifting cylinder.
The rotary unit is covered resp. enclosed by a casing, which serves for the purposes of health protection, thermal insulation and aesthetics. Said casing is provided with a melt-feeding opening in the axis of rotation. On the bottom of the casing there is bent-back flange, which receives eventually scattering melt drops.
Profile packets are to be compressed with a force of lOkN to assure that melt could not escape in course of casting on the dividing plane at a number of re¬ volutions of 200/miπ. The mechanism exerting compressive force is actuated by the pushing force of the lifting cylinder .
Holding means Formation is identical with that of the preheater, as described in the relating chapter, however it works et a lower temperature and smaller output. Holding is most important from two points of view: partly heating energy may be saved, partly quick cooling of lead grids having been cast from tempered lead alloys, from a high temperature, can be achieved. Disassembly means The task of said means lies in to unfold the
SUBSTITUTE SHEET profile packets to such an extent and for a period, which are needed for allowing the lead grid to fall out from the profile sheets.
Several versions of pneumatic and mechanic dis¬ assembly means have been elaborated.
Grid cooler
Essentially it is a tank filled with water; keeping at the required temperature is achieved by feeding fresh water controlled with a thermostat(cooling water system with recirculation) .
Tempering of grids
It is intended to perform ageing (tempering) of lead grids formed into unit-packets in an artificial way in a separate chamber kiln.
Determination of the technology of heat treatment of lead grids alloyed with calcium is in progress.
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Claims

What we claim is:
1. Single-purpose machine for processing lead aramtures needed for the production of accumulators characteri zed in that the melt (lead or alloyed lead) to be processed is fed axially in course of the rotary motion, while in the forming stroing caskets having been shifted radially from the centre of the rotary disc, work pieces i.e. lead armatures are formed in N-number.
2. Machine as claimed in claim 1, characteri zed i π that forming storing caskets are made preferably of aluminium or ceramics.
3. Machine as claimed in claim 1 characterized that storing caskets made of aluminium or ceramics are well sutiable for making grids of the Coorrens type.
4. Machine as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 3 characteri zed in that the equipment is well suitable for processing lead, optionally alloyed or unalloyed.
5. Machine as claimed in any of the claims 1 to 4 characteri zed that speed of production can be increased by two orders of magnitude, simultane¬ ously energy consumption can be reduced by one order of magnitude.
6 . Machine as claimed in any of claims 1 to 5, characteri zed in that it is well suitable for processing lead free of sublimation with optional geometry and thickness.
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