EP0449767A1 - Rectifieuse cylindrique sans centre - Google Patents

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EP0449767A1
EP0449767A1 EP91810118A EP91810118A EP0449767A1 EP 0449767 A1 EP0449767 A1 EP 0449767A1 EP 91810118 A EP91810118 A EP 91810118A EP 91810118 A EP91810118 A EP 91810118A EP 0449767 A1 EP0449767 A1 EP 0449767A1
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Walter Pfluger
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B5/00—Machines or devices designed for grinding surfaces of revolution on work, including those which also grind adjacent plane surfaces; Accessories therefor
    • B24B5/18—Machines or devices designed for grinding surfaces of revolution on work, including those which also grind adjacent plane surfaces; Accessories therefor involving centreless means for supporting, guiding, floating or rotating work

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  • the present invention relates to a centerless cylindrical grinding machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Centerless cylindrical grinding machines of the abovementioned type are usually equipped with a grinding wheel headstock which is firmly connected to the machine bed as a carrier of the grinding wheel.
  • the regulating wheel opposite the grinding wheel is mounted on a regulating wheel carriage with a regulating wheel headstock according to the state of the art.
  • the regulating wheel can be adjusted to set the machine, for example, as follows:
  • the workpiece support located between the grinding wheel and the regulating wheel is usually arranged on the regulating wheel carriage and, in order to adapt the machine to different workpiece diameters, is adjustable in the radial direction relative to the regulating wheel.
  • the workpiece support further comprises a workpiece support body which is displaceable in height and in the axial direction of the regulating wheel. To compensate for a taper or to align a parallelism with respect to the grinding wheel and / or with respect to the regulating wheel, the workpiece support body is additionally arranged so that it can be pivoted horizontally.
  • a dressing device with a dressing member is assigned to both the regulating wheel and the grinding wheel.
  • each of the dressing devices comprises a first dressing slide that can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the machine and a second dressing slide that can be moved at right angles to the first dressing slide.
  • Machines of the type outlined above and belonging to the prior art can be improved. Because of the longitudinal mobility and pivotability of the workpiece support body, if an automatic workpiece feeder is present, it must be adaptable and trackable to the respective position of the body mentioned. This requires considerable design and control engineering. Because the grinding wheel is non-pivotably connected to the machine bed, each pivoting movement of the workpiece support body relative to the grinding wheel results in readjusting the regulating wheel.
  • the invention solves this problem with a machine, which has the features listed in the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the workpiece support can be essentially firmly connected to the machine bed.
  • the swivel position of the workpiece support relative to the grinding wheel is adjusted within the scope of the adjustment options of the latter by adjusting the grinding wheel.
  • the relative position of the regulating wheel to the workpiece support remains unchanged, i. H. the regulating wheel does not need to be readjusted.
  • the workpiece support is decoupled from the regulating wheel. Because the workpiece support is always in the same place, the workpiece feed device can be implemented with less effort compared to the prior art.
  • in-process measurements can be considerably simplified by the embodiment of the machine according to the invention.
  • the cross-slide drive for the grinding wheel can be made smaller.
  • the centerless cylindrical grinding machine which is shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, comprises a machine bed 1 on which a first horizontal plate 5 is pivotally mounted about a vertical axis 6 (pivoting direction C1). The edge region of the plate 5 opposite the pivot axis is supported by a support guide 40.
  • a first longitudinal slide 7 is arranged on the swivel plate 5 and has a part which can be displaced in the longitudinal direction X1 of the machine.
  • a first cross slide 8 is arranged on this part and has a part which can be displaced perpendicular to the direction X1 in the transverse direction Y1 of the machine.
  • a grinding wheel headstock 49 with a rotatably mounted grinding wheel 2 is fastened to this.
  • the axis of the grinding wheel 2 is designed as a hub 27, in which a shaft 28 engages in a longitudinally displaceable manner.
  • the torque transmission from the shaft to the hub takes place, for example, by means of a serration or by means of feather keys.
  • the shaft 28 is coupled, for example, via a V-belt drive 50 to the drive motor 39, which in this example is arranged on the first longitudinal slide 7.
  • This structure has the advantageous effect that the massive drive motor 39 does not have to be moved when the grinding wheel 2 is moved back and forth, for example when the grinding wheel executes its intended oscillating movements when machining workpieces.
  • An embodiment in which the drive motor 39 is attached to the first cross slide 8, is also possible especially for very small machines.
  • a first dressing device 12 for the grinding wheel 2 is arranged on the first pivotable plate 5 and is firmly connected to said plate.
  • the first dressing device 12 comprises a first dressing member 14, for example a diamond, which is positioned at the center height 16 of the grinding wheel axis and is held in the dressing device 12 by means of a locking device 51.
  • a workpiece support 4 is connected to the machine bed 1 at a distance A1 from the outer surface of the grinding wheel.
  • the workpiece support 4 comprises a workpiece support body 17. The horizontal distance and the horizontal angular position of the grinding wheel 2 relative to the support body 17 is set by means of the pivotable first plate 5, the first longitudinal slide 7 and the first cross slide 8.
  • a workpiece feed device 31 comprises, for example, a horizontal transport rail 29 attached to vertical stands 42, 43 and arranged above the machine.
  • a transport slide 32 arranged on the latter in a longitudinally displaceable manner has vertically movable feed arms 33, 34 for removing or dispensing workpieces on a workpiece supply device 30 and for feeding one workpiece to be machined on the support body 17 or for removing a machined workpiece from the support body 17. It is obvious and immediately apparent that the feeding and removal of the workpieces in the support body 17 is easier compared to the prior art if the support body is always the same in the longitudinal direction of the machine Positioned and always aligned in the transverse direction to the machine. The design and the control engineering effort of the feed device can be significantly reduced.
  • both the first longitudinal slide 7 and the first transverse slide 8 are each provided with a CNC-controlled axis, which is not specifically shown in the figures.
  • the axes are each driven by a drive motor 35 for the longitudinal slide and by a drive motor 37 for the cross slide.
  • the drive motors are electrically connected to an associated electronic control 21, 22.
  • the drive motors can either be stepper motors or servomotors, the effective position of the two slides being reported back to the electronic control via position sensors (not shown).
  • the pivot axis 6 for the first plate 5 is arranged in the area of the grinding wheel 2. It has proven to be advantageous in the course of the development of the machine to have the pivot axis 6 for the first plate 5 run centrally through the workpiece support 4.
  • a regulating wheel 3 is provided horizontally spaced from the grinding wheel 2 in the longitudinal direction of the machine. It is arranged on a regulating disc headstock 47 and is rotatably mounted about an axis 19. The direction of rotation the regulating wheel is indicated in the figures with B2.
  • the regulating disc headstock 47 is fastened to a holding bracket 48 and can be inclined in the vertical direction V2 relative to the latter.
  • the heat development in the drive of the machine according to the invention which is carried out with a toothed belt drive, is considerably smaller, which has an advantageous effect.
  • the regulating disc headstock 47 and the holding bracket 48 are fastened to a second cross slide 11 which can be displaced in the transverse direction Y2 of the machine.
  • the latter is arranged on a second longitudinal slide 10 which can be displaced in the longitudinal direction X2 of the machine.
  • This is in turn, practically identical to the design of the grinding wheel side, mounted on a second horizontal and pivotable plate 9.
  • This is pivotally mounted on a further vertical pivot axis 24, which is advantageously arranged approximately centrally under the regulating disc 3, in the direction C2.
  • the edge area, which lies opposite the pivot axis 24 of the second plate 9, is supported by a further support guide 41.
  • the second slides 10, 11 for the regulating wheel 3 are also preferably set by CNC-controlled drives 36, for the longitudinal slide 10, and 38 for the cross slide 11.
  • a second dressing device 13 is immovably mounted on the second plate 9, this second dressing device 13 comprising a second dressing member 15, for example in the form of a further diamond, which is arranged at the center height 16 of the regulating wheel axis 19 is.
  • the second dressing member 15 is fastened to the second dressing device 13 with holding means 52.
  • the pivoting movement of the second plate can, although not shown in the drawing, also be carried out by a further numerically controlled drive.
  • a very significant advantage of the machine according to the invention is that the longitudinal or transverse slides 7, 10; 8, 11 can be used not only for feeding the grinding wheel 2 and the control wheel 3 to a workpiece to be machined, but also for feeding the grinding wheel 2 to the first dressing device 12 and for feeding the control wheel 3 to the second dressing device 13.
  • the dressing processes and the machining processes can be controlled in the machine according to the invention.
  • at least two of the relatively expensive numerical drives can be saved.
  • taper compensation or parallelism alignments can be carried out by the grinding wheel 2 and / or the regulating wheel 3.
  • An adjustment, either on the grinding wheel side or on the regulating wheel side does not necessarily mean that the other side has to be readjusted. This is because the workpiece support 4 is designed to be non-pivotable in its horizontal plane. Control advantages result from this arrangement.
  • the machine is programmed via a control panel 22, which is connected to electronic cabinets 21 of the electronic control system via a cable channel 44.
  • the vertical inclination setting V2 of the regulating wheel 3 can also be carried out either manually or by an additional numerically controlled operation.
  • a protective hood 53 covers the machine bed with the grinding and regulating wheel arrangements thereon.
  • the electronic control 21, 22 assigned to the machine can also be used, among other things, to calculate the control wheel contour and to generate the latter by the second dressing device 13. Since the control wheel is aligned to the center height, it is necessary to convert the control wheel contour to be generated as a function of the altitude, the diameter of a workpiece to be machined and the inclination of the control wheel. This conversion must take place because a workpiece is usually machined above the center height 16 of the regulating and grinding wheels, while the regulation wheel is aligned to the center height. Without conversion, there would be a distortion of the regulating wheel contour.
  • the embodiment of the centerless cylindrical grinding machine according to the invention shown in this example is suitable for drive powers of the grinding wheel of approximately 9 kW.
  • the machining diameters of the workpieces are advantageously below about 15 mm.
  • Appropriately adapted and reinforced constructions would of course also make and use larger machines which have the features according to the invention.

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EP0616870A1 (fr) * 1993-03-23 1994-09-28 Agathon A.G. Maschinenfabrik Rectifieuse cylindrique centerless
DE19940687A1 (de) * 1999-08-27 2001-03-01 Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh Schleifmaschinen zum spitzenlosen Schleifen von Werkstücken
DE19940686A1 (de) * 1999-08-27 2001-03-01 Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum CNC-gesteuerten Abrichten einer Regelscheibe einer Schleifmaschine für einen spitzenlosen Schleifprozess an einem Werkstück, Verfahren zum spitzenlosen Schleifen sowie Schleifmaschine
WO2002036305A1 (fr) * 2000-11-03 2002-05-10 Urs Tschudin Rectifieuse cylindrique sans centres
DE102011117819A1 (de) 2011-11-02 2013-05-02 Schaudt Mikrosa Gmbh Spitzenlose Rundschleifmaschine
WO2016058575A1 (fr) * 2014-10-13 2016-04-21 Hans-Wilhelm Modler Dispositif de rectification cylindrique sans centre et procédé d'utilisation d'un tel dispositif
CN105522450A (zh) * 2014-10-17 2016-04-27 肖特米克罗莎有限公司 磨削机、特别是构造紧凑的无心磨削机
EP3269500A1 (fr) * 2016-07-12 2018-01-17 Tschudin GmbH Grenchen Procede et dispositif de rectification cylindrique sans pointe simultanee de plusieurs pieces usinees
CN110549176A (zh) * 2019-10-09 2019-12-10 浙江立群汽车配件制造有限公司 一种十字轴专用的无心外圆磨床
CN115971994A (zh) * 2022-12-29 2023-04-18 广东鼎泰机器人科技有限公司 一种多轴外圆磨床

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US2466478A (en) * 1946-03-13 1949-04-05 James A Riley Grinding machine
GB981609A (en) * 1960-04-18 1965-01-27 Earl A Thompson Mfg Company Improvements in or relating to workpiece feed mechanisms

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US2466478A (en) * 1946-03-13 1949-04-05 James A Riley Grinding machine
GB981609A (en) * 1960-04-18 1965-01-27 Earl A Thompson Mfg Company Improvements in or relating to workpiece feed mechanisms

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EP0616870A1 (fr) * 1993-03-23 1994-09-28 Agathon A.G. Maschinenfabrik Rectifieuse cylindrique centerless
EP1080843A3 (fr) * 1999-08-27 2003-09-10 Schaudt Mikrosa BWF GmbH Procédé et dispositif pour dressage par commande numérique de la roue de régulation d'une rectifieuse "sans centre"
DE19940687A1 (de) * 1999-08-27 2001-03-01 Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh Schleifmaschinen zum spitzenlosen Schleifen von Werkstücken
DE19940686A1 (de) * 1999-08-27 2001-03-01 Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum CNC-gesteuerten Abrichten einer Regelscheibe einer Schleifmaschine für einen spitzenlosen Schleifprozess an einem Werkstück, Verfahren zum spitzenlosen Schleifen sowie Schleifmaschine
EP1080843A2 (fr) * 1999-08-27 2001-03-07 Schaudt Mikrosa BWF GmbH Procédé et dispositif pour dressage par commande numérique de la roue de régulation d'une rectifieuse "sans centre"
US6569000B1 (en) 1999-08-27 2003-05-27 Schaudt Mikrosa Bwf Gmbh Grinding machine for centerless grinding of workpieces
US7223159B2 (en) 2000-11-03 2007-05-29 Urs Tschudin Centerless cylindrical grinding machine
CH694940A5 (de) * 2000-11-03 2005-09-30 Urs Tschudin Spitzenlose Rundschleifmaschine.
WO2002036305A1 (fr) * 2000-11-03 2002-05-10 Urs Tschudin Rectifieuse cylindrique sans centres
DE102011117819A1 (de) 2011-11-02 2013-05-02 Schaudt Mikrosa Gmbh Spitzenlose Rundschleifmaschine
DE102011117819B4 (de) * 2011-11-02 2017-11-02 Schaudt Mikrosa Gmbh Spitzenlose Rundschleifmaschine
WO2016058575A1 (fr) * 2014-10-13 2016-04-21 Hans-Wilhelm Modler Dispositif de rectification cylindrique sans centre et procédé d'utilisation d'un tel dispositif
CN107405752A (zh) * 2014-10-13 2017-11-28 汉斯-威廉·莫拉 用于无心圆磨削的装置和用于使用用于无心圆磨削的装置的方法
CN105522450A (zh) * 2014-10-17 2016-04-27 肖特米克罗莎有限公司 磨削机、特别是构造紧凑的无心磨削机
EP3269500A1 (fr) * 2016-07-12 2018-01-17 Tschudin GmbH Grenchen Procede et dispositif de rectification cylindrique sans pointe simultanee de plusieurs pieces usinees
US10232484B2 (en) 2016-07-12 2019-03-19 Tschudin GmbH Grenchen Method and device for simultaneous centreless cylindrical grinding of multiple workpieces
CN110549176A (zh) * 2019-10-09 2019-12-10 浙江立群汽车配件制造有限公司 一种十字轴专用的无心外圆磨床
CN115971994A (zh) * 2022-12-29 2023-04-18 广东鼎泰机器人科技有限公司 一种多轴外圆磨床

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