EP2378228B1 - Dispositif de séchage d'une partie de machine - Google Patents

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EP2378228B1
EP2378228B1 EP11162314.6A EP11162314A EP2378228B1 EP 2378228 B1 EP2378228 B1 EP 2378228B1 EP 11162314 A EP11162314 A EP 11162314A EP 2378228 B1 EP2378228 B1 EP 2378228B1
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Hubert Knoth
Petra Knoth
Christian Seefeldner
Rudolf Knoth-Bambule
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B5/00—Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of heat
    • F26B5/04—Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of heat by evaporation or sublimation of moisture under reduced pressure, e.g. in a vacuum
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B25/00—Details of general application not covered by group F26B21/00 or F26B23/00
    • F26B25/06—Chambers, containers, or receptacles
    • F26B25/14—Chambers, containers, receptacles of simple construction
    • F26B25/16—Chambers, containers, receptacles of simple construction mainly closed, e.g. drum

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  • the invention relates to a device for drying a machine part with a vacuum drying chamber to which at least one Evakuier shortcomings is connected.
  • the US 2 496 054 discloses the preamble of claim 1.
  • a device for drying ball bearings which has a two-part housing, wherein the two housing halves are sealed by a seal.
  • Multi-part vacuum drying chambers have the disadvantage that, in particular for large-volume vacuum drying chambers, a relatively high outlay for preventing leaks is required.
  • the JP 2003-080182 A discloses a parts washing and drying device wherein the inner surface of a hinged lid slopes downwardly to prevent dripping onto the parts.
  • the JP 2003-080187 A describes a similar device in which the pressure during the washing and drying process is reduced.
  • a method and a device for drying a treated with a cleaning liquid workpiece wherein the workpiece is subjected to a vacuum in an airtight sealable chamber.
  • the chamber is evacuated for evaporating cleaning liquid on the workpiece surface, and the surface areas are then exposed to air jets generated by corresponding blowing nozzles in order to distribute or remove cleaning liquid.
  • the steps of evacuation and Beauban with air jets are performed alternately.
  • the interior of the chamber is only so large that it is sufficient to accommodate the workpiece.
  • the object to be cleaned is introduced into a tubular container whose end faces are sealed pressure-tight by the lid.
  • the container is connectable to steam generating means or to pressure reducing means.
  • the EP 1 057 400 A2 describes a device for drying feed with a hermetically sealable container which can be evacuated by a vacuum pump. Further evacuable containers are out of the US Pat. No. 6,598,517 B1 , or the DE 299 027 B known.
  • the object of the invention is to avoid the above drawback and to allow the simplest possible way a quick final drying of machine parts.
  • the walls of the vacuum drying chamber are integrally formed, wherein preferably the vacuum drying chamber of a single part - ie without subsequent joining of several parts by welding, gluing, soldering or the like - is made.
  • the vacuum drying chamber is milled from the solid.
  • the milling from the solid has the advantage that a wide variety of shapes and dimensions of vacuum chambers can be produced relatively quickly and with little effort.
  • the vacuum drying chamber can be designed as a bag chamber with a single gas-tight by a door closable inlet and outlet openings or as a passage chamber with two gas-tight by a door closable inlet and outlet openings.
  • the housing has at least one connection for a scavenging air line.
  • the vacuum drying process can be interrupted by a rinsing phase.
  • the vacuum drying chamber formed sloping, preferably inclined with respect to a horizontal plane.
  • the housing has a sloping bottom.
  • the accumulating liquid is discharged at the end of the evacuation process via a drain valve from the vacuum drying chamber.
  • the walls of the vacuum drying chamber are at least partially reshaped to the machine part to be dried, wherein preferably the side walls and / or the ceiling of the vacuum drying chamber are designed parallel to a profile of the machine part.
  • the side walls and / or the ceiling of the vacuum drying chamber are designed so that - when in the vacuum drying chamber retracted or inlaid Maschinenteil- the normal distance between each inner surface of the side walls and / or ceiling and the machine part at each point less than 100 mm, preferably less than 50 mm, particularly preferably less than 5 mm.
  • the vacuum drying chamber is designed as a replaceable chamber module, which is insertable into a fixed base unit, wherein the base unit at least one door, preferably two spaced apart doors, including door frame and actuators, at least one connection for a purge line , and / or having a vacuum line.
  • the at least one door or inlet and / or outlet opening, and the at least one connection for a purge line, and / or a vacuum line in the base unit and / or the chamber module is standardized.
  • connections for a purge line and / or a vacuum line are arranged at different chamber modules at precisely defined areas on the outer surface, so that a simple connection can be made when placing the chamber module on the base unit.
  • different chamber modules have the same cubic or cuboidal appearance, while they differ significantly from each other by the shape and / or size of the vacuum chamber in the interior.
  • the intermediate rinsing process for removing residual moisture within the vacuum drying chamber, the total duration of the drying process can be reduced. If necessary, the intermediate rinsing process can be repeated.
  • the device 1 is equipped with a vacuum drying chamber 6, which in the exemplary embodiment two an inlet opening 7 and an outlet opening 8 for supplying and removing the machine part 2 to be dried, which can be opened by automatically operated doors 9, 10 or gas-tight.
  • the actuatable via pneumatic, hydraulic or electric actuators 11, 12 doors 9, 10 are designed as a slide.
  • the walls 13 of the vacuum drying chamber 6 are formed integrally and as a unit, wherein as walls 13 here the entirety of side walls 13a, 13b, front and rear walls 13c, 13d, bottom 13e and ceiling 13f is to be understood.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and is milled from a solid block. The one piece is particularly good from the FIGS. 10 to 15 seen.
  • a connection 14 for an Evakuier Surprise 15 is provided, which is arranged below the vacuum drying chamber 6 in the embodiment.
  • the bottom 13e of the vacuum drying chamber 6 is formed sloping and has at the lowest point a drain opening 16 with a drain valve 17.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 has a connection 18 for a flushing line for a flushing medium.
  • a drive motor 19 is arranged for the roller conveyor section 5a within the vacuum drying chamber 6, which is mounted on support elements 20 spaced from the bottom 13e.
  • the side walls 13a, 13b and the ceiling 13f are largely reshaped to the machine part 2 to be dried. As a result, the volume to be evacuated can be kept as small as possible.
  • the walls 13 in the side and ceiling area of the vacuum drying chamber 6 are parallel to the profile 2a of the machine part 2 - viewed in the conveying direction - designed and designed so that - in the vacuum drying chamber 6 retracted or pickled machine part 2 - the normal distance a between each inner surface of Side walls 13a, 13b and / or ceiling 13f and the machine part 2 at each point is less than 100 mm, preferably less than 50 mm, particularly preferably less than 5 mm ( Fig. 9 ).
  • each inner surface is formed sloping.
  • the ceiling 13f is formed inclined with respect to a horizontal plane, wherein the inclination angle ⁇ can be at least 2 °, preferably at least 5 °.
  • Each vacuum drying chamber 6 is thus designed especially for a machine part 2. Thus, differently designed and dimensioned vacuum chambers 6 must be provided for machine parts 2 of different shape and / or dimensions.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is designed as an exchangeable chamber module M, which can be used in a fixed base unit B of the device 1.
  • the base unit B has the two spaced apart doors 9, 10 together with the door frame 9a, 10a and actuators 11, 12, and at least one port 18a for a purge line and / or a vacuum line. In this case, a single connection 18a or separate connections for flushing and evacuation may be provided.
  • the doors 9, 10 of the base unit B and the inlet and outlet openings 7, 8 of different chamber modules M are standardized in terms of position, size and number, so that when inserting the chamber modules M in the base unit B docking of module-side terminals and base unit-side terminals takes place.
  • the pressure-tight connection of the connections can be achieved manually or automatically via quick couplings.
  • the inlet and outlet openings 7, 8 come to lie in the correct position in the region of the doors 9, 10, with a seal between doors 9, 10 and entrance or Outlet openings 7, 8 via not shown, the openings framing sealing elements can be done.
  • the machine part 2 arrives from the cleaning station 4 coming via the roller conveyor 5 of the processing line 3 in the opened vacuum drying chamber 6.
  • the machine part 2 is precisely placed in the vacuum drying chamber 6, so that between the machine part 2 and the walls 13 is substantially a uniform distance a between 0 mm and 100 mm is formed.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is gas-tight by means of the doors 9, 10 closed and the pressure of about 1 bar ambient pressure lowered to 0.2 bar.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is vented again and rinsed via the connection 18 with a flushing medium.
  • the intermediate rinse causes residual moisture to be removed from the vacuum drying chamber 6.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is evacuated again. If necessary, the intermediate rinsing can be repeated.
  • the vacuum drying chamber 6 is ventilated and the dry machine part 2 is removed through the opened outlet opening 8.

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  1. Dispositif (1) pour le séchage d'une partie de machine (2) comprenant une chambre de séchage sous vide (6) à laquelle est connecté au moins un dispositif de mise sous vide (15), les parois (13) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) étant réalisées en une seule pièce,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est fabriquée à partir d'une seule partie.
  2. Dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois (13) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont en aluminium ou en un alliage d'aluminium.
  3. Dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est obtenue par fraisage à partir d'un bloc plein.
  4. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) comprend au moins un branchement (18) pour une conduite de rinçage.
  5. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 4,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) comporte un fond pouvant être abaissé (13e).
  6. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est réalisée sous la forme d'une chambre en forme de poche avec une seule ouverture d'entrée et de sortie obturable de façon étanche aux gaz par une porte de préférence réalisée sous la forme d'un coulisseau.
  7. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est réalisée sous la forme d'une chambre de passage comprenant une ouverture d'entrée (7) et une ouverture de sortie (8), l'ouverture d'entrée et l'ouverture de sortie (7, 8) pouvant être respectivement obturées de façon étanche aux gaz par l'intermédiaire d'une porte (9, 10) de préférence réalisée sous la forme d'un coulisseau.
  8. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois (13) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (2) sont de préférence au moins partiellement formées de façon correspondante à la partie de machine (2) à sécher, les parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou le couvercle (13f) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) étant de préférence, conformés parallèlement à un profil (2a) de la partie de machine (2).
  9. Dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 8,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou le couvercle (13f) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont conformés de sorte que - lorsque la partie de machine (2) est insérée ou logée dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) - la distance droite (a) entre chacune des surfaces internes des parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou du couvercle (13f) et la partie de machine (2) est à chaque endroit inférieure à 100 mm, de préférence inférieure à 50 mm et de façon particulièrement préférentielle inférieure à 5 mm.
  10. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 9,
    caractérisé en ce que
    considéré dans la position de fonctionnement - toutes les surfaces internes de la chambre de séchage sous vide (2) sont réalisées de façon à pouvoir être diminuées.
  11. Dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 10,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est réalisée sous la forme d'un module de chambre échangeable (M) pouvant être inséré dans une unité de base fixe (B), l'unité de base fixe (B) comprenant au moins une porte (9, 10), de préférence deux portes (9, 10) situées à distance l'une de l'autre, y compris des châssis de porte (9a, 10a) et des actionneurs (11, 12), au moins un branchement (18a) pour une conduite de rinçage et/ou une conduite de mise sous vide.
  12. Dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 11,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la porte (9, 10) ou l'ouverture d'entrée et/ou de sortie (7, 8) et le branchement (18a) pour une conduite de rinçage et/ou une conduite de mise sous vide est standardisé dans l'unité de base (B) et/ou le module de chambre (M).
  13. Procédé d'obtention d'un dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 12,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois (13) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont réalisées en une seule pièce et la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) est obtenue par fraisage à partir d'un bloc plein.
  14. Procédé d'obtention d'un dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 13,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois (13) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont au moins partiellement mises en forme de façon correspondante à la partie de machine (2) à sécher, de préférence les parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou le couvercle (13f) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont conformés parallèlement à un profil (2a) de la partie de machine (2).
  15. Procédé d'obtention d'un dispositif (1) conforme à la revendication 13 ou 14,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou le couvercle (13f) de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) sont conformés de sorte que - lorsque la partie de machine (2) est insérée ou logée dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) - la distance droite (a) entre chacune des surfaces internes des parois latérales (13a, 13b) et/ou du couvercle (13f) et la partie de machine (2) est à chaque endroit inférieure à 100 mm, de préférence inférieure à 50 mm et de façon particulièrement préférentielle inférieure à 5 mm.
  16. Procédé de séchage d'une partie de machine (2) à l'aide d'un dispositif (1) conforme à l'une des revendications 1 à 12,
    caractérisé par
    les étapes suivantes consistant à :
    a. insérer la partie de machine (2) dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) mise en forme en correspondance avec le profil (2a) de la partie de machine (2) de préférence par l'intermédiaire d'un transporteur à galets (5),
    b. fermeture étanche aux gaz de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) de préférence par l'intermédiaire d'au moins un coulisseau,
    c. mise en oeuvre d'un processus de mise sous vide en abaissant la pression régnant dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) à une pression définie,
    d. augmentation de la pression dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) et mise en oeuvre d'au moins un procédé de rinçage intermédiaire avec un agent de rinçage de préférence gazeux,
    e. mise en oeuvre d'un nouveau procédé de mise sous vide en diminuant la pression dans la chambre de séchage sous vide (6) à une pression définie,
    f. extraction de la partie de machine (2) après augmentation de la pression et ouverture de la chambre de séchage sous vide (6).
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