EP0478507B1 - Verfahren und Anlage zur Herstellung von Wärmetauschern - Google Patents

Verfahren und Anlage zur Herstellung von Wärmetauschern Download PDF

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EP0478507B1
EP0478507B1 EP19910810765 EP91810765A EP0478507B1 EP 0478507 B1 EP0478507 B1 EP 0478507B1 EP 19910810765 EP19910810765 EP 19910810765 EP 91810765 A EP91810765 A EP 91810765A EP 0478507 B1 EP0478507 B1 EP 0478507B1
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Rudolf Lüthi
Walter Pauli
Roland Krebs
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Styner and Bienz AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D53/00—Making other particular articles
    • B21D53/02—Making other particular articles heat exchangers or parts thereof, e.g. radiators, condensers fins, headers
    • B21D53/08—Making other particular articles heat exchangers or parts thereof, e.g. radiators, condensers fins, headers of both metal tubes and sheet metal
    • B21D53/085—Making other particular articles heat exchangers or parts thereof, e.g. radiators, condensers fins, headers of both metal tubes and sheet metal with fins places on zig-zag tubes or parallel tubes

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  • the present invention relates to a method for producing heat exchangers according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a method is known from US-A-4,780,955.
  • the two straight legs of U-shaped tubes are inserted into the aligned openings formed by collars, whereupon the elbows of the tubes are supported by a support plate while the expanding mandrels are inserted from the straight ends of the tubes to bring them to the collars of the fins to press and thus establish a mutual connection.
  • the support plate is advanced against the direction of movement of the expanding mandrels at a speed or by a distance which should correspond to the shortening of the pipes as a result of their spreading.
  • the aim of the present invention is to remedy this deficiency.
  • This goal is achieved according to the features of claim 1.
  • the rigid support of the pipes at both ends makes it possible to keep the pipes under full pressure, regardless of the position of the expanding mandrel, and thus to determine the final position and length of the pipes after spreading, regardless of the tolerances .
  • the invention also relates to a plant for carrying out the method.
  • Figure 1 shows a package of heat exchanger fins 1, which are provided with openings which are delimited by curved collars 2.
  • the lamellae are stacked at a certain mutual distance from one another and rigidly clamped between two plates 3 and 4.
  • the successive openings or collar 2 of the lamellae each form a channel passing through the entire package, and the plates 3 and 4 are provided with holes 5 and 6, which are each in front of a channel of the lamella package 1.
  • the plate 4 is preceded by a further plate 7 with holes 8, the diameter of the holes 8 being smaller than the diameter of the holes 5 and 6.
  • Expansion mandrels 10 each with an expansion head 11, are used for expansion, and these expansion mandrels 10 can be pushed through the tubes 9 by means of a common drive, in particular a spindle drive, in order to expand these tubes so much that they collide with the collars 2 of the lamellae 1 pressed and firmly connected to the same.
  • the pressure acting on the tubes 9 from the expanding mandrels 10 is absorbed by a support plate 12 on which the tubes 9 are supported.
  • This support plate 12 is also provided with holes 13 which are dimensioned such that a driver 14 which can be detachably coupled to the front end of the expanding mandrel 10 can pass through.
  • the support plate 12 is not arranged rigidly, but can be moved in the direction of the arrow against the pressure direction of the expanding mandrels 10. It can also be moved transversely to the longitudinal direction of the tubes 9.
  • a prepared pipe 9 ' is shown on the right whose front end has a rolled constriction 15, and in which a driver 14 is inserted.
  • the constriction 15 and the driver 14 are dimensioned such that a new tube can be drawn into a plate pack 1 from a magazine (not shown) by means of this driver.
  • the plate pack 1 is not only rigidly clamped in the stacking direction between the plates 3 and 4, but it is also clamped practically rigid in the transverse direction.
  • Figure 2 shows a view of the plate pack with tubes 9 with the plates 3 and 12 removed.
  • the plate pack 1 is clamped between a lower support 18 and an upper clamping frame with cross sections 16 and longitudinal sections 17, which is pressed onto the plate pack by means of clamping means (not shown).
  • the support 18 has lateral support profiles 19 for the plate pack 1. It is thus ensured that the plate pack does not buckle under the considerable pressure of all expanding mandrels 10 which are active at the same time.
  • FIG. 1 shows the operating state during the expansion of the tubes, only one tube 9 with its expanding mandrel 10 being shown in FIG. But actually at the same time expanded as many pipes as are shown in FIG. 2, for example.
  • the expanding mandrel 10 with the expanding head 11 is advanced from left to right in FIG. 1, the expanding head 11 progressively expanding the tube and pressing it against the fins 1.
  • the tube 9 is shortened by the pressure in the longitudinal direction and the plastic deformation in the region of the expansion head 11, this shortening being somewhat dependent on the tolerances of the tube.
  • This shortening of the tube 9, which occurs anyway, but is not completely controllable, is now converted according to the invention into a controlled shortening by moving the support plate 12, which absorbs the pressure exerted on the tubes in the longitudinal direction, to the left in FIG.
  • This movement takes place in a rigid speed ratio to the rate of penetration of the expanding mandrels 10, the speed of the plate, for example in the case of aluminum tubes, corresponding to 1.5 to 2.5% of the rate of penetration of the expanding mandrels 10.
  • the speed or the path of the support plate 12 is dimensioned such that this path is in any case greater than the shortening of the tube 9 that occurs anyway.
  • the tube 9 is therefore constantly under additional pressure during expansion by the advance of the support plate 12 set, which increases the plastic shortening of the tube to a predetermined value given by the path of the support plate 12.
  • this has the double advantage that, on the one hand, all the pipes are brought to the same length, or protrude exactly the same distance from the plate pack 1, namely on the one hand up to the plate 7 and on the other hand up to the plate 12.
  • the expansion of the tube takes place up to the front end, which is supported on the plate 12, in that the coupling member 14 passes through the hole 13 in the support plate 12 and the expansion head 11 also so far can penetrate into the hole 13 that he widens the tube 9 to the end.
  • the expanding mandrel is fully retracted behind the plate 7, whereupon the plate pack with the retracted tubes 9 is removed and replaced by a new plate pack. If the new disk set is clamped rigidly again in the manner described, all expanding mandrels 10 are pushed forward together after the coupling member 14 has been removed therefrom. Here, the support plate 12 is extended up or down in the direction of its plane, so that the expanding mandrels can be pushed freely up to the bar magazine. There, all expanding mandrels are then coupled, each with a coupling member 14, and then withdrawn in order to pull a new tube into the plate pack 1 with the coupling element 14.
  • the pipes are subjected to tension and, if necessary, are straightened in the plate pack.
  • the tubes 9 are drawn in here until the expansion head 11 with its largest diameter is at the level of the inner surface (on the right in FIG. 1) of the plate 7.
  • the support plate 12 is brought back into the operating position shown and is placed against the pipe ends. All pipes are placed under pressure prestressing regardless of small differences in length such that their ends are slipped over the expansion head 11 and expanded in the process until they abut the plate 7.

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