EP1864727A1 - Maschine und Verfahren zur Herstellung von Bewehrungskörben - Google Patents

Maschine und Verfahren zur Herstellung von Bewehrungskörben Download PDF

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EP1864727A1
EP1864727A1 EP07109683A EP07109683A EP1864727A1 EP 1864727 A1 EP1864727 A1 EP 1864727A1 EP 07109683 A EP07109683 A EP 07109683A EP 07109683 A EP07109683 A EP 07109683A EP 1864727 A1 EP1864727 A1 EP 1864727A1
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Giorgio Del Fabro
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
    • B21F27/00—Making wire network, i.e. wire nets
    • B21F27/12—Making special types or portions of network by methods or means specially adapted therefor
    • B21F27/121—Making special types or portions of network by methods or means specially adapted therefor of tubular form, e.g. as reinforcements for pipes or pillars
    • B21F27/125—Making special types or portions of network by methods or means specially adapted therefor of tubular form, e.g. as reinforcements for pipes or pillars by attaching individual stirrups to longitudinal wires

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  • the present invention concerns a machine able to make reinforcement cages for reinforced concrete structures, such as girders, pillars and foundations.
  • the present invention also concerns the connected method used in a cage-making machine, and in particular to the method by which the stirrups that make up the cages are positioned, one by one and in sequence, with respect to the relative round pieces, or longitudinal metal rods.
  • EP-A-1.302.257 and WO-A-83/00647 disclose machines and methods which include the features of the preambles of the main claims.
  • a reinforcement cage for reinforced concrete structures consists of a plurality of longitudinal round pieces or rods, and a plurality of shaped stirrups, disposed transverse to the longitudinal rods and distanced from each other longitudinally, which are welded to said rods so as to form a geometric structure with a desired section.
  • the stirrups are fed and positioned with a single, substantially transverse movement, normally from above, with respect to the longitudinal rods, and this is actuated by a manipulator unit gripping on a segment of rectilinear metal bar, from which the stirrup itself is made directly by bending.
  • present-day cage-making machines that is, machines that are totally or partly automated, designed to reduce the costs of assembly operations
  • welding units with automated action which are activated in a coordinated manner with every cycle of forward movement of the longitudinal rods and with every insertion of a new stirrup into a welding position.
  • the welding units used in such cage-making machines can each comprise a pair of welding elements, opposite and facing each other; the welding elements are fed electrically and with every cycle of advance of the longitudinal rods, a stirrup to be welded is inserted, substantially transverse to the rods.
  • This type of interference can cause errors and lack of uniformity in the welding between the parts, and may even cause possible blockages and interruptions in the production of the cage-making machine, because it becomes impossible to insert the new stirrups correctly.
  • One purpose of the present invention is to achieve a machine for making reinforcement cages which reduces to a minimum the risk of interference between the longitudinal rods and the stirrups, during the insertion of the latter, increasing productivity and the quality of the cages made.
  • Another purpose of the present invention is to achieve a machine which does not need long and expensive intervention times in order to pass from the use of stirrups with substantially traditional shapings and feed to the use of stirrups with particular shapings and/or feed, guaranteeing both optimum operating flexibility and high productivity.
  • the Applicant has devised, tested and embodied the present invention to overcome the shortcomings of the state of the art and to obtain these and other purposes and advantages.
  • a machine according to the present invention is applied to make reinforcement cages consisting of a plurality of longitudinal rods connected by transverse stirrups disposed at intervals along them.
  • the machine according to the invention comprises at least a shaping unit in which each stirrup is obtained by bending a metal bar, a forming station in which the transverse stirrups, obtained in the shaping unit, and the longitudinal rods are attached to each other to make the reinforcement cage, and at least a feed unit able to feed the stirrups in sequence to the forming station, in a first direction of feed substantially transverse with respect to the development of the longitudinal rods.
  • the forming station advantageously comprises at least a welding unit able to weld together the longitudinal rods and the relative transverse stirrups.
  • the feed unit is configured to linearly translate the stirrup by acting on the same bar from which the stirrup has been obtained in the shaping unit;
  • the forming station also comprises a mobile positioning unit able to accommodate the stirrup fed by the feed unit in the first direction of feed, and to move it, towards the longitudinal rods in a second direction of positioning, directed either towards below or towards above with respect to the first direction of feed imparted by the feed unit.
  • each individual stirrup from the position where it is formed in the shaping unit, is located in the welding position between the relative longitudinal rods with a two-step movement, in which the first guided movement, performed by the feed unit by acting on the bar from which the stirrup has been obtained, has a substantially transverse direction with respect to the development of the longitudinal rods, and the second movement has an angled direction, in particular perpendicular and coplanar, towards either above or below, with respect to the first movement.
  • each stirrup in a first moment is thus fed transversely, by linearly translating the same bar from which the stirrup itself is obtained, by the feed unit in the first direction, advantageously at a lower height, or possibly higher, than an ideal welding height where the welding unit is situated; at a later moment, the stirrup is moved by the mobile positioning unit in the second direction, towards either above or below, to be taken to said welding height and thus allow the welding unit to perform the reciprocal welding of the stirrup and the longitudinal rods.
  • the machine does not require a further auxiliary movement means for the stirrups, since their positioning in the first direction is obtained by the same feed means of the device, which forms the stirrups themselves.
  • the stirrup By feeding the stirrups starting from a different height from the welding height, the stirrup is made to pass, in a first step, below or above the relative longitudinal rods, preventing their normal progressive deformations due to the welding operations.
  • the subsequent step to position the stirrup at the correct welding height also allows to exert a slight force on the longitudinal rods, and to compensate said deformations and take the rods to a correct position at the welding height, thus ensuring optimum quality of the cage made.
  • the machine can pass easily from using stirrups with a substantially traditional shape and feed to stirrups with a particular shape and/or feed, without needing to provide long and expensive fitting steps or the intervention of specialized personnel.
  • This advantage allows to optimize the productivity of the cage-making machine, reducing its overall management costs.
  • the machine also comprises a movement unit which moves the welding unit, in coordination with the advance of the longitudinal rods, in a cage-forming direction, in order to displace it by one step.
  • a movement unit which moves the welding unit, in coordination with the advance of the longitudinal rods, in a cage-forming direction, in order to displace it by one step. This allows the welding unit to weld the rods to the stirrups substantially during the travel, that is, during the feed step of the longitudinal rods itself, and also allows to temporarily position a new transverse stirrup during the welding operation itself.
  • the welding unit itself that determines the movement of the rods and the stirrup in the forming direction.
  • a machine 10 is able to make, substantially automatically, reinforcement cages or preliminary cages consisting in this case of three longitudinal rods 11 fed from a respective coil (fig. 5) and a plurality of transverse stirrups 12 with a quadrangular section, welded to each other.
  • the longitudinal rods 11 can be definitive or specification rods, that is, with a structural function, or they may be auxiliary rods with the sole function of connecting the stirrups 12, and in this case are welded outside the stirrups 12.
  • the machine 10 comprises, in a substantially known manner, a drawing unit 13, a shaping unit 15 and a forming station 16 into which both the stirrups 12 and the longitudinal rods 11 are fed, in order to form the reinforcement cages.
  • stirrups 12 are fed to the forming station 16 in a first direction of feed D1, directly from the drawing unit 13, which continues to grip the metal bar 12a from which the shaping unit 15 makes the stirrup 12, directly by bending and subsequent shearing.
  • each stirrup 12 is linearly translated towards the forming station 16 by the drawing unit 13 by acting directly on the metal bar 12a, which, after shearing the stirrup 12, as will be explained hereinbelow, is retracted to start a cycle of formation of a new stirrup 12.
  • the first direction of feed D1 is substantially transverse to the development of the longitudinal rods 11.
  • the stirrup 12 in this case is situated at an absolute feed height Q1 (shown by a line of dashes in fig. 1), which is lower by some tens of centimeters than an ideal welding height Q2 (shown by a continuous line in fig. 1), where its correct welding position is provided with respect to the relative longitudinal rods 11.
  • the forming station 16 comprises shears 17, a positioning manipulation member 19, and a gripper-type welder 20, of a substantially known type substantially consisting of two electrodes disposed, in the operative welding step, on opposite sides with respect to the components to be welded.
  • the shears 17 are of a substantially known type and able to separate the stirrup 12 from the metal bar 12a, to make it independent from the latter.
  • the manipulation member 19 has also the function of a guide for the stirrup 12, and has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and sizes such as to accommodate inside it one stirrup 12 at a time.
  • the stirrup 12 rests with a lower segment inside the U shape.
  • the manipulation member 19 can have sizes such as to accommodate inside it more than one stirrup 12 at a time, or that it can be selectively adjustable to allow to handle one or more stirrups 12 at the same time, even of different sizes.
  • the manipulation member 19 is selectively mobile in a second direction of positioning D2, coplanar and substantially perpendicular, either towards above or towards below, to the first direction of feed D1, so as to take the relative stirrups 12 from the feed height Q 1 to the ideal welding height Q2.
  • the manipulation member 19 is at least partly magnetized to keep the relative stirrup 12 in the desired position for welding.
  • the gripper-type welder 20 is mobile by one step in a third direction of forming D3, substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the metal cage being formed.
  • the welding unit 20 is moved by one step, for example by a specific drive unit, of a known type and not shown here, in coordination with the advance of the longitudinal rods 11, so as to effect the reciprocal welding of the rods 11 and the stirrup 12 during the feed of the longitudinal rods 111 themselves.
  • the cage-making machine 10 functions as follows.
  • the metal bar 12a is fed to the shaping unit 15 by means of the drawing unit 13, so as to make the stirrup 12 by bending.
  • the stirrup 12 is then taken, with a first linear movement, in the first direction D1 to the height Q1 and to the manipulation member 19, passing substantially below the longitudinal rods 11 and therefore without risk of interference.
  • the shears 17 cut the metal bar 12a so as to make the stirrup 12 free from the metal bar 12a.
  • the stirrup 12 is then lifted by the manipulation member 19, with a second movement, in the second direction D2, so as to pass from height Q 1 to height Q2.
  • the metal bar 12a is recovered by the drawing unit 13 and disposed on the shaping unit 15 in order to make a new stirrup 12.
  • the grippers of the welder 20 perform the reciprocal welding of the longitudinal rods 11 onto the stirrup 12, with the simultaneous advance by one step in the cage-forming direction.
  • the gripper-type welder 20 automatically returns to its initial condition.
  • the new stirrup 12 is first moved in direction D1 and then moved in direction D2 so that it is disposed for welding as soon as the welder 20 returns to its initial condition.
  • stirrups 12 with a quadrangular shaping and with a metal bar 12a substantially co-planar with the lower segment of the stirrup 12 to stirrups 112 with a quadrangular shaping but with a metal bar 12a substantially parallel and distanced from the lower segment of the stirrup 112, it is sufficient to dispose the manipulation member 19 at a particular height Qp, lower or possibly higher than the normal feed height Q1, so as to compensate for the possible differences in initial positioning of the stirrup 112 with respect to the traditional stirrups 12.
  • the manipulation member 19 normally provides a maximum travel greater than the normal travel from Q 1 to Q2, so that it can be disposed at the widest possible number of particular heights Qp, and hence provide great operating flexibility for the machine 10 according to the present invention.

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WO1983000647A1 (en) * 1981-08-20 1983-03-03 George Alexander Beveridge Apparatus to manufacture reinforcing mesh
EP1302257A2 (de) * 1999-11-16 2003-04-16 M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S.p.A. Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Herstellung von metallischen Bewehrungskörben
EP1378302A2 (de) * 2002-07-05 2004-01-07 Schnell S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Bewehrungskäfigen
EP1378301A2 (de) * 2002-07-05 2004-01-07 Schnell S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Formen von Bündeln von Bewehrungsbügeln und so hergestelltes Bündel

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1983000647A1 (en) * 1981-08-20 1983-03-03 George Alexander Beveridge Apparatus to manufacture reinforcing mesh
EP1302257A2 (de) * 1999-11-16 2003-04-16 M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S.p.A. Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Herstellung von metallischen Bewehrungskörben
EP1378302A2 (de) * 2002-07-05 2004-01-07 Schnell S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Bewehrungskäfigen
EP1378301A2 (de) * 2002-07-05 2004-01-07 Schnell S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Formen von Bündeln von Bewehrungsbügeln und so hergestelltes Bündel

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