EP2210724A1 - Procédé et appareil pour la fabrication de produits plats en céramique - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour la fabrication de produits plats en céramique Download PDF

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EP2210724A1
EP2210724A1 EP10160133A EP10160133A EP2210724A1 EP 2210724 A1 EP2210724 A1 EP 2210724A1 EP 10160133 A EP10160133 A EP 10160133A EP 10160133 A EP10160133 A EP 10160133A EP 2210724 A1 EP2210724 A1 EP 2210724A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B11/00—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles
    • B28B11/08—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for reshaping the surface, e.g. smoothing, roughening, corrugating, making screw-threads
    • B28B11/10—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for reshaping the surface, e.g. smoothing, roughening, corrugating, making screw-threads by using presses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B11/00—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles
    • B28B11/12—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for removing parts of the articles by cutting
    • B28B11/125—Cutting-off protruding ridges, also profiled cutting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B11/00—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles
    • B28B11/14—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for dividing shaped articles by cutting
    • B28B11/16—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for dividing shaped articles by cutting for extrusion or for materials supplied in long webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B13/00—Feeding the unshaped material to moulds or apparatus for producing shaped articles; Discharging shaped articles from such moulds or apparatus
    • B28B13/04—Discharging the shaped articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B3/00—Producing shaped articles from the material by using presses; Presses specially adapted therefor
    • B28B3/20—Producing shaped articles from the material by using presses; Presses specially adapted therefor wherein the material is extruded

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  • This invention concerns a method of and apparatus for forming substantially flat ceramic products.
  • substantially flat ceramic products such as, for example, tiles
  • a ceramic paste in the form of a continuous ribbon, the thickness of which is substantially the same as the final thickness that the finished products must have.
  • the ribbon is then chopped up into pieces to size and as per specification to obtain tiles of preset dimensions.
  • IT M094A000027 discloses a version of this process.
  • a forced injection of colouring materials is made at a location along the flow of materials advancing through the extruder.
  • the injection can be obtained by arranging at least one injector close to the extruder screw which advances the material towards a location near the extrusion mouth.
  • the injector or the injectors may also be positioned at locations along the extrusion direction at different distances from the extrusion mouth. Depending on the desired chromatic effects, the injector or injectors may be positioned on the extruder body or on the screw shaft.
  • the shaft is internally provided with at least one conduit for feeding the colouring materials.
  • an extruded product is formed, having a central internal portion of a colour different from the colour of the external portion.
  • the extruded product has a monochromatic external rind (having the same colour as the initial colour of the clay), and an internal portion provided with coloured veins.
  • the extruded product so obtained, having a core of different colour, is then also cut along a plane which is not perpendicular - usually parallel - to the extrusion direction, so as to remove the monochromatic rind and make the differently coloured central portion visible.
  • the cutting operation when performed parallelly to the extrusion direction, is preferably carried out during the extrusion process by introducing a cutting member near the extrusion mouth.
  • the cutting member separates the rind from the internal portion of the extruded product.
  • the cross-section of the extruder has to be so dimensioned that the desired cross-section of the extruded product is not affected by the cutting member.
  • an extruder having a rectangular cross-section is used, having a thickness twice the object's thickness and provided with a central cutting wire. Therefore, two objects exit from the extruder, the two objects being separated along a central plane parallel to the extrusion direction.
  • the extruded product is cut, during its advancing, by inserting a stretched cutting wire, arranged near the extrusion mouth transversely with respect to the extrusion direction.
  • the cutting wire is moved according to preset oscillating movements.
  • the cutting wire may be moved with a reciprocating motion along a plane perpendicular to the extrusion direction.
  • the extruded product is therefore cut into two parts, each of these parts having an undulated surface. These parts are then flattened by pressing.
  • the ribbon is subjected to a process of surface stripping, i.e. a slice of extruded material that is a few millimetres thick and is still in the plastic state is removed.
  • the removed material is a noticeable percentage of the total material used to form the ceramic product (of the order of 10-20%) and has to be removed from the production line as waste material that can nevertheless be used in other industrial ceramic applications.
  • US-A-4,292,359 discloses a process for the continuous production, by extrusion, of a partly finished clay product comprising a pair of parallel ribbons joined in back-to-back relation by a plurality of longitudinally extending walls in the form of frangible bridges which, when the partly finished clay product has been cut into blanks and fired to harden it, can be broken to separate the blanks into two ceramic pieces.
  • the process comprises the steps of feeding a base material to a first screw extruder having two screw conveyors in series separated by a degassing chamber, and feeding a second, differently coloured, material to the degassing chamber, preferably through a second screw extruder.
  • the screw conveyor Downstream of the degassing chamber the screw conveyor imparts a rotary mixing motion to the two-coloured clays to swirl these and then the mixture is pressed through a vertically extending die plate of suitable shape, which also strips the extruded, partly finished, clay product to expose faces having a wood grain effect.
  • the die plate is provided with a pair of vertical knives each of which strips a lateral portion from the extruded strip.
  • a method of forming substantially flat ceramic products comprising preparing a ceramic paste, extruding the ceramic paste through an extrusion die and over a cutter to obtain a substantially continuous multiple ribbon of paste with first and second ribbons of the multiple ribbon not being joined together but having a separation plane that is substantially parallel to the faces of the multiple ribbon, and severing the first and second ribbons transversely to provide the products, characterised in that said extruding is performed substantially horizontally.
  • an apparatus for forming substantially flat ceramic products comprising an extruder having an extrusion die slot, a cutter extending substantially parallelly to the die slot, and a severing device to provide the products downstream of the extruder, the arrangement being such that ceramic paste can be extruded from the die slot and cut by the cutter to obtain a substantially continuous multiple ribbon of paste with first and second ribbons of the multiple ribbon not being joined together but having a separation plane that is substantially parallel to the faces of the multiple ribbon, and the first and second ribbons can be severed transversely by the severing device to provide the products, characterized in that the die slot is directed substantially horizontally.
  • a method of forming substantially flat ceramic products comprising preparing a ceramic paste, extruding the ceramic paste through an extrusion die to obtain a substantially continuous ribbon, and severing the ribbon to provide the products, characterised in that the individual products so obtained are squashed to reduce their thicknesses and to increase their plan areas and are then cut to size around their peripheries.
  • an apparatus for forming substantially flat ceramic products comprising an extruder having an extrusion die slot, and a severing device to provide the products downstream of the extruder, the arrangement being such that ceramic paste can be extruded from the die slot to obtain a ribbon, and the ribbon can be severed by the severing device to provide the products, characterised in that the apparatus further comprises a squashing device downstream of the severing device for squashing the products and a trimming device downstream of the squashing device for cutting the products to size around their peripheries.
  • a preferred embodiment of the present method and of forming flat ceramic products with colouring extending throughout substantially the whole of their bodies comprises passing the prepared ceramic paste through an extrusion die slot and over at least one cutter to form a substantially continuous multiple ribbon which is deposited on a moving conveyor surface, the cutter(s) providing at least one longitudinal cut down the multiple ribbon on at least one plane that is substantially parallel to the top and bottom faces of the multiple ribbon, thereby creating at least two superimposed and distinct ribbons with cut faces which are in contact with one another, transversely cutting the superimposed ribbons at right angles to the top and bottom faces of the multiple ribbon to provide a series of piles of at least two unfinished products, turning over, so as to place the products of each pile side-by-side with one another on the moving conveyor surface with cut faces turned upwards, flattening the unfinished products with calibrated force to reduce the thickness thereof to a preset amount and trimming the perimeter of each product to size (and to shape) on the conveyor.
  • 1 indicates an end portion of a batching/mixing device 101 shown in Figure 2 , which is provided with an extrusion die slot 2 and wherein a ceramic paste IP with at least two chromatic components is prepared.
  • the extrusion die slot 2 is provided with a transverse blade 3 that cuts longitudinally, thereby minimising attrition phenomena, as extrusion progresses, the continuously extruded ceramic paste IP, on a horizontal plane, subdividing it into two ribbons 4a, 4b, the cut faces 104 and 204 of which are in substantial contact with one another, although, solely for the sake of clarity, in Figure 1 they are shown slightly separated from one another.
  • the continuous multiple ribbon 4 at the outlet of the extrusion die slot 2 is collected and supported by a mobile conveying surface 5, for example consisting of an endless conveyor belt on motor-driven and idle rollers 105, and conveyed to a transverse cutting station where cutting-to-size with a suitable means 6 occurs.
  • a mobile conveying surface 5 for example consisting of an endless conveyor belt on motor-driven and idle rollers 105, and conveyed to a transverse cutting station where cutting-to-size with a suitable means 6 occurs.
  • the conveying surface 5 carries the unfinished products 4a and 4b to an overturning station where, by a means 108 ( Figure 2 ) known per se to those skilled in the art, turning over of the top product 4a in relation to the bottom product 4b occurs; the product 4a is thus placed next to the bottom product 4b with its cut face 104 upwards, as is the cut face 204 of the bottom product 4b.
  • the products 4a and 4b reach a presser unit 7 whereat a squashing of the products 4a and 4b is performed under a preset force, so that their thickness is reduced to a set amount.
  • the compressing action causes the raw paste that makes up the unfinished products 4a and 4b to become homogenous and stable, thereby greatly reducing any internal stresses generated during the extrusion and therefore any consequential defects induced during firing of the ceramic products.
  • the flattening phase is followed by a phase of trimming of the products 4a and 4b, and possibly a phase of dividing each product according to preset sizes, as indicated by the cut lines 19 in Figure 4 , with a suitable apparatus 8, to obtain the perimeter dimensions required of the products P which are sent for firing.
  • the trimming device 8 shown in Figure 1a includes a vertically reciprocable rectangular cutting ring 8a.
  • the device 8 includes a pair of cutting wheels 8b mounted on a shaft 8c reciprocable by a piston-and-cylinder drive 8d.
  • the device 8 also includes another pair of cutting wheels 8e mounted upon a transverse shaft 8f.
  • upstream of the flattening phase there may be an additional phase of spreading, on the cut faces 104 and 204, decorative materials that are suitable for being incorporated in the faces 104, 204 during the flattening phase, in particular dissolved or inconsistent decorating materials such as, for example, oxides, powder or granular glazes, or also materials in flakes or three-dimensional bodies that are distributed over the faces 104 and 204 with distribution devices or decorating machines that are per se known and are indicated in Figure 2 with the overall reference numeral 110.
  • the length of the section of mobile conveying surface 5 under the apparatus 110 may vary according to the number of chromatic applications that are to be performed and the type of apparatus 110 to be used.
  • the flattening phase can be performed by using a suitable roller device 9 shown in Figures 1 and 2 instead of the presser unit 7 or in combination therewith.

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