EP1545811A1 - Casting procedure, particularly for engine cylinder head - Google Patents

Casting procedure, particularly for engine cylinder head

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EP1545811A1
EP1545811A1 EP02808016A EP02808016A EP1545811A1 EP 1545811 A1 EP1545811 A1 EP 1545811A1 EP 02808016 A EP02808016 A EP 02808016A EP 02808016 A EP02808016 A EP 02808016A EP 1545811 A1 EP1545811 A1 EP 1545811A1
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Bruno Bassi
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22CFOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C9/00Moulds or cores; Moulding processes
    • B22C9/10Cores; Manufacture or installation of cores
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22CFOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C7/00Patterns; Manufacture thereof so far as not provided for in other classes
    • B22C7/02Lost patterns
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22CFOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C7/00Patterns; Manufacture thereof so far as not provided for in other classes
    • B22C7/06Core boxes
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22CFOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C9/00Moulds or cores; Moulding processes
    • B22C9/02Sand moulds or like moulds for shaped castings
    • B22C9/04Use of lost patterns
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22CFOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C9/00Moulds or cores; Moulding processes
    • B22C9/10Cores; Manufacture or installation of cores
    • B22C9/103Multipart cores

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  • the present invention relates in general to the technology for producing cast parts. En particular, it relates to gravity chills and low-pressure processes that use cores to obtain inside cavities in the casting.
  • a typical example of such casting process is that used for obtaining engine cylinder heads, where internal cores are necessary for obtaining the water jacket for the engine cooling water, the intake and exhaust ducts, and any other secondary cavity.
  • the main difficulty consists in perfectly collimating the inside of the part to be cast, that is the cores, with the outside, that is the chill, so as to obtain the required dimensional accuracy.
  • the cores are obtained in corresponding moulds, called core boxes, and then they are normally pre-asse bled in the proximity of the chill.
  • the group of pre-assembled cores is collected by automatic devices (grippers and jigs) and laid (assembled) into the chill. At this point it is possible to cast the molten metal which will fill the volume comprised between the sand cores and the chill.
  • Sand projections are obtained onto the cores to keep the core group assembled in the desired position. Such prints are laid into the chill and do not constitute part of the object resulting from the casting.
  • cores for intake and exhaust ducts of an engine cylinder head whose surfaces form the end shape of the casting
  • such cores are inserted into the water jacket core and during the step of moving the cores group to the chill, if the assembly is performed manually they are free due to the effect of the gaps that will be occupied by the metal thickness. Then, they laid by gravity into the lower zone of the corresponding passages provided into the water jacket core. When the duct cores are in contact with the drag (lower base) of the chill, they get the final position.
  • the ducts cores are held into suitable positions relative to the water jacket by a special automatic device, but normally only by the side of the flange coupling to the intake and exhaust manifolds.
  • the water jacket core box interior must also be provided with all of the other parts resulting from the outside thickness of
  • the problem of making the duct cores pass through the openings obtained in the water jacket cores is solved by dividing the latter horizontally into two halves, which are then attached to each other by an adhesive after inserting the ducts.
  • Lost Foam Another casting process, called Lost Foam, consists in realising multiple polystyrene sectors using special dies. Once such sectors have been attached to one another, they match the part to be cast.
  • the polystyrene model thus obtained is coated and then put into a container, which is then filled by vibration with common sand or a similar material.
  • the molten metal is poured into the container. As polystyrene burns, it is replaced by the metal, so as to form the desired casting.
  • Object of the present invention is to obviate the disadvantages of the prior art mentioned above, by proposing a new casting procedure which allows obtaining higher quality castings, thereby reducing the number of the cast scrap due to dimensional defects, and further introducing new design prospects.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a casting procedure which allows a perfect relative positioning between each core and an easy insertion of the cores into the mould or into another core, whichever their shape.
  • Another object of the finding is to provide a casting procedure which allows a considerable simplification of the core boxes, that is, without any complex shapes, undercuts and connected moving parts, and which is therefore cheaper, more reliable and easier to maintain.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a chilling casting process for engine cylinder heads which allows obtaining cores for intake and exhaust ducts without any deformation on the outside thickness and with the most varied and complex shapes, which may result in better engine performance and ecologically more advanced engines as regards exhaust gases, as allowed by the new casting technology.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide a casting procedure for engine cylinder heads which allows embedding inserts for the ducts into the casting, made of a material capable of standing the heat generated by the molten metal in order to obtain perfectly smooth ducts which should contribute to improving the engine efficiency.
  • FIG. 1 shows sand and polymerised resin cores for realising the intake and exhaust ducts of an engine cylinder head
  • FIG. 2 shows a section view of the core boxes for moulding the cores of Fig. 1 , in a variant with inserts around the intake and exhaust ducts;
  • FIG. 3 shows the duct cores with inserts obtained with the core box of Fig. 2;
  • - Figure 4 shows a section of the duct cores inserted into the die for their coating with foamed material;
  • FIG. 5 shows the group of valve seats and duct cores coated with foamed material
  • FIG. 6 shows the water jacket core box still empty
  • FIG. 7 shows the core box (f ⁇ g.6) with the group of duct cores of Fig. 5 inserted therein;
  • FIG. 8 shows the group of cores, valve seats and foamed coating obtained by moulding the water jacket core in the core box of the previous Figure, with the valve guides inserted into the coating;
  • FIG. 9a and 9b show two enlarged details of the core assembly scheme, where black parts denote the difference in the shape and volume of the water jacket dimensions that can be obtained by the casting procedure under discussion compared to the current art;
  • the present invention relates to a casting procedure for obtaining castings provided with inside cavities.
  • cavities are obtained by laying in a mould, such as a chill, intended to receive the molten metal, one or more cores made or sand and polymerised resin or other material.
  • cores are previously obtained into special moulds, called core boxes.
  • core boxes In the case of more cores, these are obtained separately, each into a relative core box, and then they are assembled each other before being laid
  • the cores are usually provided with complementary projections and cavities, called positive and negative prints, to support one another, and with other sand projections intended to lay into the suitable seats into the chill, which do not form part of the casting.
  • the procedure according to the present invention provides for coating one or more cores made of sand or other material with a layer of foamed material, such as polystyrene, only in the shaped zones, using a special die and then laying them into the chill.
  • foamed material such as polystyrene
  • the core coating material is intended to dissolve in contact with the casting metal, which replaces it thereby determining the required casting thickness, so that the finished casting surface will be determined by the quality of the core surface.
  • the main core box In order to receive the secondary cores already coated with foamed material, the main core box will be empty at the shapes of said secondary cores since shapes and thickness are replaced by the cores and by the coating layer. As a consequence, the main core box is much easier and cheaper to be realised since it allows eliminating any inside undercut and any moving parts required to realised the containments of secondary cores.
  • the main core box only has the outside prints of the secondary cores, which will be pre- assembled into the same. Following the moulding of the main core box with sand and polymerised resin, a single monolithic body is obtained, already assembled and exhibiting a considerable geometric accuracy, consisting of the main core and of the secondary cores, which are integral with the main
  • inserts consisting of heat resistant material, such as metal or composite material, and intended to be embedded into the
  • the main core box is capable of receiving both sand cores or inserts coated with foamed material.
  • inserts of metal or other material are to be embedded into the casting, and these inserts have an inside void and where such void is corresponding to the core design, they must be laid into a specific core box which only considers the insert thickness in
  • such core wilt also prevent the molten material from penetrating into the
  • the casting designer is provided with a new technology that allows obtaining castings which can even embed other adjacent parts currently casted separately, according to the constraints of the current traditional casting technology.
  • Such new technology can also be used for obtaining stiffening
  • the die is constructed with all core print seats equal to the core
  • the casting procedure described is especially but not exclusively adapted to be applied to a chill casting process of
  • the main core 11 is the water jacket core
  • secondary cores mainly are those relating to the
  • valve seats onto the outside diameter are embedded, whereas inside they will be aligned on the conical edges of the duct cores.
  • the valve seats 14, 15 must have the proper machining stock on the inside diameter.
  • the outside diameter of the valve seats is realised with a taper equal to the inside one, and such taper is required for the coating material to support and held into position the valve seats during further handling, up to the assembly into the chill or die. The metal will then finally block the valve seats onto the casting.
  • valve guides 16", 17" can be automatically inserted into the suitable seats 16', 17' obtained in the foamed material.
  • Special sealing members are applied to the junctions between foamed material and upper half water jacket core box in order to prevent sand infiltrations
  • valve guides will be solid (without central holes) since mechanical machining for inserting the valve stems is performed with valve guides embedded into the casting. Among the other things, this allows preventing the use of traditional stiffening bosses around the valve guide into the duct cores.
  • valve guides wilt be provided with a negative circular groove at the portions embedded in the foamed material, which will hold into position the valve guides in the casting metal when the latter replaces the foamed material.
  • valve guide In the upper portion of the valve guide there is often another core 21 for the oil gallery, as in the case shown in fig. 10, or a core for the tappet compartment, which realises the risers (casting metal feeding during the shrinkage by cooling).
  • the upper end of the valve guides will always be guided into a suitable seat realised into said upper core 21 or into the tappet compartment core, and therefore blocked into the correct position, even when the casting metal has dissolved or is dissolving the foamed material around the valve guides, without making the same valve guides collapse.
  • the vatve guides are inserted and stopped into suitable seats 22 obtained in the duct cores (Fig. 3).
  • the monolithic group comprising the water jacket core 11 , the secondary cores, the valve seats, the valve guides, the foamed material along with other cores, such as
  • the molten metal will dissolve and replace
  • Fig. 10 shows the same assembly scheme described above, but where the duct cores consist of metal hollow inserts 23 (or made of another material capable of standing the heat generated by the casting metal), filled with sand and polymerised resin having a support function as welt as serving
  • the inserts end against the valve seats whereas as
  • the intake ducts may be connected to one
  • Such chamber may even reach the intake manifold coupling flange and form a single chamber integral with the same manifold, without implying any problems of assembly with the water jacket.
  • Such concept may also be extended to inserts made of another material and embedded into the casting.
  • the head designer will have a wide freedom of design since the current design constraints are eliminated, such as the forced passage of the ducts through the water jacket.
  • the water jacket compartment can be realised with more rounded design
  • outside duct core thickness is also free from deformations, with a constant and perfect thickness exactly as drawing specification.

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a casting procedure for obtaining parts provided with inside cavities or holes, wherein said holes and/or cavities are obtained by laying into a mould or chill, intended to receive the molten metal, one or more cores made of sand or other material, and wherein a main core is used, realised into a special core box, along one or more secondary cores intended to be associated to said main core, comprising the following steps: coating at least one secondary core, only in the zones and by the pattern thickness with a layer of material intended to dissolve in contact with the molten metal; inserting the pre-coated secondary cores into the main core box yet to be moulded; moulding the main core box; and inserting the monolithic group obtained at the previous step, consisting of the main core, of the secondary cores and of the coating material that keeps them firmly connected, into the mould or chill intended to receive the molten metal. The cores to be coated can also be formed by hollow inserts (23) made of a heat resistant material, filled with sand polymerised resin, wherein the cavity represents the core pattern.

Description

CASTING PROCEDURE, PARTICULARLY FOR ENGINE CYLINDER HEAD
Fieid of the invention
The present invention relates in general to the technology for producing cast parts. En particular, it relates to gravity chills and low-pressure processes that use cores to obtain inside cavities in the casting. A typical example of such casting process is that used for obtaining engine cylinder heads, where internal cores are necessary for obtaining the water jacket for the engine cooling water, the intake and exhaust ducts, and any other secondary cavity. Prior Art
Generally, for medium and large productions the casting of an engine cylinder head is performed using a fixed outside mould, called chili, whereas inside and sometimes outside as well, cores are required, which are inserted (assembled) into the chill to form a single body ready for casting.
In a casting process by chill with sand and polymerised resin cores, the main difficulty consists in perfectly collimating the inside of the part to be cast, that is the cores, with the outside, that is the chill, so as to obtain the required dimensional accuracy. The cores are obtained in corresponding moulds, called core boxes, and then they are normally pre-asse bled in the proximity of the chill.
The group of pre-assembled cores is collected by automatic devices (grippers and jigs) and laid (assembled) into the chill. At this point it is possible to cast the molten metal which will fill the volume comprised between the sand cores and the chill.
Sand projections, called prints, are obtained onto the cores to keep the core group assembled in the desired position. Such prints are laid into the chill and do not constitute part of the object resulting from the casting. In the specific case of cores for intake and exhaust ducts of an engine cylinder head, whose surfaces form the end shape of the casting, such cores are inserted into the water jacket core and during the step of moving the cores group to the chill, if the assembly is performed manually they are free due to the effect of the gaps that will be occupied by the metal thickness. Then, they laid by gravity into the lower zone of the corresponding passages provided into the water jacket core. When the duct cores are in contact with the drag (lower base) of the chill, they get the final position.
When core assembly is performed with automatic systems, the ducts cores are held into suitable positions relative to the water jacket by a special automatic device, but normally only by the side of the flange coupling to the intake and exhaust manifolds.
The entire operation requires an approach that should be
carried out carefully.
Since traditional technology provides for the water jacket core
to be moulded separately from one another, as for the other
cores, the water jacket core box interior must also be provided with all of the other parts resulting from the outside thickness of
the cast-internal parts (ducts, etc.) and that are intended to house - during the subsequent core assembly - the other
cores. However, since the ducts outside parts do not undergo drafting as they normally are at half the height of the water jacket, mobile parts are currently used, controlled by gears, camshafts or, in the best case, by pneumatic cylinders, almost always moving on inclined axes.
In case of an engine cylinder head, in order to ease the extraction of these moving parts it is necessary to impart a greater inclination (draft angle) and deform the outside
thickness of the ducts, providing excess material to obtain the minimum thickness required by the casting operation. This
implies reducing the water jacket core, with the result of a higher b ittleness of the same and a lower efficiency of the
cooling circuit. In other cases, the problem of making the duct cores pass through the openings obtained in the water jacket cores is solved by dividing the latter horizontally into two halves, which are then attached to each other by an adhesive after inserting the ducts.
However, this implies higher production costs and lower quality of the finished product, above all due to the casting flashes that may generate into the water circulation compartment, and due to casting blowholes that may develop from the possible contact of molten metal with the half-core fixing adhesive.
Another casting process, called Lost Foam, consists in realising multiple polystyrene sectors using special dies. Once such sectors have been attached to one another, they match the part to be cast. The polystyrene model thus obtained is coated and then put into a container, which is then filled by vibration with common sand or a similar material. Using a special pouring channel, made of polystyrene as well, the molten metal is poured into the container. As polystyrene burns, it is replaced by the metal, so as to form the desired casting.
This process allows eliminating the realisation and laying of polymerised sand cores. On the other hand, however, besides the various technological problems, it also exhibits the disadvantage - in the case of an engine cylinder head casting - that the duct shapes, even though coated, are not optimal since their surfaces are moulded and therefore directly finished by the polystyrene surfaces. They may even exhibit junctions resulting from the coupling of polystyrene sectors. The necessary use of glue, moreover, is the primary cause of blowholes. In substance, this process is scarcely used.
Objects and advantages of the invention
Object of the present invention is to obviate the disadvantages of the prior art mentioned above, by proposing a new casting procedure which allows obtaining higher quality castings, thereby reducing the number of the cast scrap due to dimensional defects, and further introducing new design prospects.
another object of the invention is to provide a casting procedure which allows a perfect relative positioning between each core and an easy insertion of the cores into the mould or into another core, whichever their shape.
Another object of the finding is to provide a casting procedure which allows a considerable simplification of the core boxes, that is, without any complex shapes, undercuts and connected moving parts, and which is therefore cheaper, more reliable and easier to maintain. Another object of the invention is to provide a chilling casting process for engine cylinder heads which allows obtaining cores for intake and exhaust ducts without any deformation on the outside thickness and with the most varied and complex shapes, which may result in better engine performance and ecologically more advanced engines as regards exhaust gases, as allowed by the new casting technology.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a casting procedure for engine cylinder heads which allows embedding inserts for the ducts into the casting, made of a material capable of standing the heat generated by the molten metal in order to obtain perfectly smooth ducts which should contribute to improving the engine efficiency.
These and other objects of the invention are achieved by a casting process according to the claims hereinafter.
Brief description of the drawings
Further features of the invention will appear more clearly with reference to the attached indicative and non-limiting drawings. In such drawings: - Figure 1 shows sand and polymerised resin cores for realising the intake and exhaust ducts of an engine cylinder head; - Figure 2 shows a section view of the core boxes for moulding the cores of Fig. 1 , in a variant with inserts around the intake and exhaust ducts;
- Figure 3 shows the duct cores with inserts obtained with the core box of Fig. 2; - Figure 4 shows a section of the duct cores inserted into the die for their coating with foamed material;
- Figure 5 shows the group of valve seats and duct cores coated with foamed material;
- Figure 6 shows the water jacket core box still empty; - Figure 7 shows the core box (fιg.6) with the group of duct cores of Fig. 5 inserted therein;
- Figure 8 shows the group of cores, valve seats and foamed coating obtained by moulding the water jacket core in the core box of the previous Figure, with the valve guides inserted into the coating;
- Figure 9 shows a complete chill core assembly scheme of the core group of the previous Figure;
- Figures 9a and 9b show two enlarged details of the core assembly scheme, where black parts denote the difference in the shape and volume of the water jacket dimensions that can be obtained by the casting procedure under discussion compared to the current art;
- Figure 10 shows the core assembly scheme in the variant with inserts. Detailed description of the invention
As said above, the present invention relates to a casting procedure for obtaining castings provided with inside cavities. As known, such cavities are obtained by laying in a mould, such as a chill, intended to receive the molten metal, one or more cores made or sand and polymerised resin or other material. Such cores, in turn, are previously obtained into special moulds, called core boxes. In the case of more cores, these are obtained separately, each into a relative core box, and then they are assembled each other before being laid
(assembled) into the mould or chill. To this purpose, the cores are usually provided with complementary projections and cavities, called positive and negative prints, to support one another, and with other sand projections intended to lay into the suitable seats into the chill, which do not form part of the casting.
The procedure according to the present invention provides for coating one or more cores made of sand or other material with a layer of foamed material, such as polystyrene, only in the shaped zones, using a special die and then laying them into the chill.
The core coating material is intended to dissolve in contact with the casting metal, which replaces it thereby determining the required casting thickness, so that the finished casting surface will be determined by the quality of the core surface.
In particular, the procedure under discussion has been conceived and is especially advantageous in casting processes that require the realisation of a main core and of one or more secondary cores. According to the finding, after being realised in the usual way into respective core boxes, such secondary cores are laid into a die and coated with foamed material only in the shape zone, with the thickness required by the casting, and then they are laid (pre-assembled into the main core box yet to be moulded, that is, empty.
In order to receive the secondary cores already coated with foamed material, the main core box will be empty at the shapes of said secondary cores since shapes and thickness are replaced by the cores and by the coating layer. As a consequence, the main core box is much easier and cheaper to be realised since it allows eliminating any inside undercut and any moving parts required to realised the containments of secondary cores. In addition the main core box only has the outside prints of the secondary cores, which will be pre- assembled into the same. Following the moulding of the main core box with sand and polymerised resin, a single monolithic body is obtained, already assembled and exhibiting a considerable geometric accuracy, consisting of the main core and of the secondary cores, which are integral with the main
core through the coating that forms the casting thickness.
Such monolithic body can then be easily carried and laid into
the mould or chill.
Besides cores of sand or of other material, the casting
procedure under discussion can be applied to thin hollow
inserts consisting of heat resistant material, such as metal or composite material, and intended to be embedded into the
casting for making the inside surfaces of the cavities perfectly smooth. From the dimensional point of view, the main core box is capable of receiving both sand cores or inserts coated with foamed material.
if inserts of metal or other material are to be embedded into the casting, and these inserts have an inside void and where such void is corresponding to the core design, they must be laid into a specific core box which only considers the insert thickness in
addition, and then it is moulded. The resulting core will be provided with prints and embedded inserts, only in the shaped
zone, and besides serving as support for the inserts, such core wilt also prevent the molten material from penetrating into the
void part of the embedded inserts.
The property that allows performing the pre-assembly of
already coated cores into a core box yet to be moulded (void) allows, for such a secondary cores to be conformed in any
geometrical shape which would otherwise be not possible. In
the casting it is therefore possible to obtain even several
passages, labyrinths and else which was not possible before,
and this since it is not necessary anymore to perform a successive assembly, only after moulding all cores.
Consequently the described process results in outside thickness of all secondary cores having no deformation and being perfectly shaped as the drawings, which was not always
possible according to the traditional technology, since often inside shapes of a main core box requires mobile parts for drafting, which can only be obtained with special deformation.
In any case, the casting designer is provided with a new technology that allows obtaining castings which can even embed other adjacent parts currently casted separately, according to the constraints of the current traditional casting technology.
Such new technology can also be used for obtaining stiffening
by pre-coating fragile cores with foamed material in order to facilitate handling or for a greater protection against breakage
after pre-assembly into the mould, or for restricting the effect of
metallostatic pressure.
The above is obtained both by performing a pre-assembly directly into the die, and in this case the coating thickness may
be equal to or smaller than the casting thickness, or by laying
the pre-coated cores into another core box yet to be moulded,
and in this case the coating must be equal to the casting
thickness.
In order to coat both cores and inserts with polystyrene or other equivalent material, it is necessary to be provided with a
specific die consisting of a single lower negative half and another upper negative half, since positive patterns consist of the cores or inserts to be coated.
The die is constructed with all core print seats equal to the core
boxes, to moulds or chills, considering the specific tolerances and thermal expansions. Detailed description of an embodiment of the invention
The casting procedure described is especially but not exclusively adapted to be applied to a chill casting process of
an engine cylinder head. In this case, with reference to the attached drawings, the main core 11 is the water jacket core
that is that intended to realise the coolant circulation passages, whereas secondary cores mainly are those relating to the
intake 12 and exhaust 13 duct.
The latter, plus any other secondary cores, such as for example those intended to create the exhaust gas circulation
compartment and that somewhat involve the water jacket core, are moulded into respective core boxes in a traditional manner. Once moulded, such cores are laid into a single die 19 (Fig.4) to be coated with foamed material 18, such as polystyrene. Valve seats 14, 15 for the intake and exhaust valves, may be previously laid into said die, at special references. Moreover, the die may be provided with mobile cylindrical pins 16, 17 intended to realise seats 16", 17' (Fig. 5) for the valve guides 16", 17". Polystyrene 18, or equivalent material, injected into the die, only envelops the shaped zones of the cores inserted therein , with the required casting thickness, thereby excluding the core prints 12', 13'. Also the valve seats onto the outside diameter are embedded, whereas inside they will be aligned on the conical edges of the duct cores. For this specific application, the valve seats 14, 15 must have the proper machining stock on the inside diameter. The outside diameter of the valve seats is realised with a taper equal to the inside one, and such taper is required for the coating material to support and held into position the valve seats during further handling, up to the assembly into the chill or die. The metal will then finally block the valve seats onto the casting.
The group consisting of ducts 12, 13 and of the valve seats 14, 15, all coated with foamed material 18, and therefore consisting of a single body (Fig. 5) is then laid (pre-assembled) into the water jacket core box 20 (Figs. 6, 7). As said above, the water jacket core box 20 exhibits very simple structure
since it is free from the shapes corresponding to the outside thickness of pre-assembled secondary cores. In fact, in place of such shapes there are reference seats 20' and negative prints 20" (Fig. 6) intended to receive the secondary cores with the relevant prints and the valve seats coated with foamed material. The core box therefore is free from any undercut and mobile parts. At this point the water jacket core box is filled with sand and polymerised resin, thereby obtaining a very accurate monolithic group wherein the water jacket core 11 envelops and holds the outside thickness of the duct cores consisting of the foamed material on the shaped zones (Fig. 8). A perfect relative positioning between each core is therefore obtained as well.
When the entire group consisting of secondary cores, valve seats and foamed material has been moulded into a single body with the water jacket core, the valve guides 16", 17" can be automatically inserted into the suitable seats 16', 17' obtained in the foamed material. Special sealing members are applied to the junctions between foamed material and upper half water jacket core box in order to prevent sand infiltrations
into the guide seats during moulding. The valve guides will be solid (without central holes) since mechanical machining for inserting the valve stems is performed with valve guides embedded into the casting. Among the other things, this allows preventing the use of traditional stiffening bosses around the valve guide into the duct cores.
The valve guides wilt be provided with a negative circular groove at the portions embedded in the foamed material, which will hold into position the valve guides in the casting metal when the latter replaces the foamed material.
In the upper portion of the valve guide there is often another core 21 for the oil gallery, as in the case shown in fig. 10, or a core for the tappet compartment, which realises the risers (casting metal feeding during the shrinkage by cooling). As a consequence, the upper end of the valve guides will always be guided into a suitable seat realised into said upper core 21 or into the tappet compartment core, and therefore blocked into the correct position, even when the casting metal has dissolved or is dissolving the foamed material around the valve guides, without making the same valve guides collapse.
In the lower portion, the vatve guides are inserted and stopped into suitable seats 22 obtained in the duct cores (Fig. 3). At this point, the monolithic group comprising the water jacket core 11 , the secondary cores, the valve seats, the valve guides, the foamed material along with other cores, such as
core 21, can be laid assembled into the chill (Figs. 9, 10).
During the casting, the molten metal will dissolve and replace
the foamed material, determining the required thickness and
embedding the valve seats and the valve guides.
Fig. 10 shows the same assembly scheme described above, but where the duct cores consist of metal hollow inserts 23 (or made of another material capable of standing the heat generated by the casting metal), filled with sand and polymerised resin having a support function as welt as serving
to prevent any penetration of molten metal into the inserts. The interior of such inserts has the same dimensional features of sand cores. Polymerised sand cores and inserts 23 are moulded into a specific core box 10 which must keep into account the thickness of said inserts (Fig.2).
At one end, the inserts end against the valve seats whereas as
the opposed end, they end flush with the casting raw flange.
Since the intake and exhaust duct cores 12, 13 and any other secondary cores are laid (pre-assembled) after having been coated with foamed material 18 in the water jacket core box 11 ,
there is no design limit for the ducts or for other secondary
cores. For example, the intake ducts may be connected to one
another with a single chamber without any interruption in the
horizontal direction to the upper parts of the valve seats. Such chamber may even reach the intake manifold coupling flange and form a single chamber integral with the same manifold, without implying any problems of assembly with the water jacket. Such concept may also be extended to inserts made of another material and embedded into the casting.
As a consequence, the head designer will have a wide freedom of design since the current design constraints are eliminated, such as the forced passage of the ducts through the water jacket. For example, as shown in Figs. 9a and 9b, the water jacket compartment can be realised with more rounded design
(black parts) in place of the current inclined surfaces and sharp edges to allow drafting. The outside duct core thickness is also free from deformations, with a constant and perfect thickness exactly as drawing specification.
In short, the chill casting procedure proposed and applied to the realisation of an engine cylinder head allows obtaining the following advantages:
- intake and exhaust ducts without any inside design constraints and without deformations on the outside thickness, with consequent constant casting thickness;
- intake and exhaust ducts consisting of heat resistant inserts and embedded during casting;
- higher geometrical accuracy in the position of the intake and exhaust ducts and of the water jacket relative to the combustion chambers;
- water jacket with a greater water passage volume in the more critical zones;
- valve seats embedded during casting;
- valve guides embedded during casting;
- possibility of eliminating the holes created by the prints for
supporting the water jacket core in the pouring step, thereby eliminating the mechanical machining required to
plug such holes.

Claims

Claims . Casting procedure for obtaining parts provided with inside cavities or holes, wherein said holes and or cavities are obtained by laying into a mould or chill intended to receive the molten metal one or more cores made of sand or other material, and wherein each core is realised separately into a proper core box, characterised in that before laying into the mould or chill, it provides for the step of coating at least one core with a layer of a material adapted to dissolve in contact with the casting metal.
2. Casting procedure according to claim 1 , wherein said coating is applied to the core only in the zones and by the thickness of the casting shape.
3. Casting procedure according to claim 2, wherein the coating is performed by injection molding on the core to be coated.
4. Casting procedure according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a main core is used, realised into a special core box, along with one or more secondary cores intended to be associated to said main core, characterised in that it comprises the following steps:
- coating at least one secondary core, only in the zones and by the shaped thickness, with a layer of material intended to dissolve in contact with the molten metal; - inserting the pre-coated secondary cores into the main core box yet
to be moulded;
- moulding the main core box; and
- inserting the monolithic group obtained at the previous step,
consisting of the main core, of the secondary cores and of the coating material that keeps them firmly connected, into the mould or chill
intended to receive the molten metal.
5. Chill casting procedure of an engine cylinder head according to claim 4, wherein the main core is that intended to realise the water
jacket ( 1) for the engine coolant circulation, and wherein the secondary cores comprise at least the cores of the intake and exhaust
ducts (12, 13), characterised in that said duct cores are laid into a single die (19) to be coated with the coating material layer (18) so as to form a single body to be laid into the special water jacket core box.
6. Casting procedure according to claim 5, wherein valve seats (14, 15) for the intake and exhaust ducts are first laid into the die and the
injected material enveloping said valve seats on the outer diameter.
7. Casting procedure according to claim 5 or 6, wherein prior to assembly monolithic group into the mould or chill, the valve guides
o (16", 17") for the intake and exhaust valves are inserted into the monolithic group comprising the main core and the secondary coated
cores.
8. Casting procedure according to any one of the previous claims,
wherein the cores to be coated consist of hollow inserts (23) made of a heat resistant material, wherein the cavity represents the shape according to the drawing.
9. Casting procedure according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the cores to be coated consist of a hollow insert for the shaped zones only, made of a heat resistant material filled with sand and polymerised resin to realise the prints and prevent metal infiltrations.
10. Casting procedure according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the coating material of the sand and polymerised resin cores or of the inserts is a foamed material, such as polystyrene.
11. Main core box for the casting procedure according to any one of claims 4-10, characterised in that it only consists of two portions intended to be closed onto one another, thereby in that it is free from undercuts and therefore of mobile parts adapted to perform the draft, and in that it exhibits seats and negative prints (20* , 20") for receiving and blocking into position the secondary cores pre-coated with the coating material.
12. Die for coating the intake and exhaust duct cores in an engine cylinder head casting process according to any one of claims 5-10, characterised in that it is provided with cylindrical mobile pins (16, 17) intended to realise seats (16' , 17') into the coating material for the valve guides (16", 17") of the intake and exhaust valves.
13. Die for coating the intake and exhaust duct cores (12, 13) in an engine cylinder head casting process according to any one of claims 5- 10, characterised in that it is configured for receiving valve seats (14, 15) for the intake and exhaust valves.
14. Engine cylinder head characterised in that it embeds at least one
hollow insert (23) made of metal or other heat resistant material, whose
interior forms the design of the corresponding intake and exhaust duct.
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