EP2759350B1 - Horizontal strip accumulator with slim strip supporting carriages and passive central hooking system - Google Patents

Horizontal strip accumulator with slim strip supporting carriages and passive central hooking system Download PDF

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EP2759350B1
EP2759350B1 EP13152589.1A EP13152589A EP2759350B1 EP 2759350 B1 EP2759350 B1 EP 2759350B1 EP 13152589 A EP13152589 A EP 13152589A EP 2759350 B1 EP2759350 B1 EP 2759350B1
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Thomas Ottmer
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Cockerill Maintenance and Ingenierie SA
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Priority to BE2013/0213A priority patent/BE1021584B1/fr
Priority to RU2015134306A priority patent/RU2644088C9/ru
Priority to CN201480004843.7A priority patent/CN104918724B/zh
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H20/00—Advancing webs
    • B65H20/30—Arrangements for accumulating surplus web
    • B65H20/32—Arrangements for accumulating surplus web by making loops
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES, OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C49/00—Devices for temporarily accumulating material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2408/00—Specific machines
    • B65H2408/20—Specific machines for handling web(s)
    • B65H2408/21—Accumulators
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/17—Nature of material
    • B65H2701/173—Metal

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  • the present invention pertains to the technical field of horizontal strip accumulators with strip supporting carriages, which can be erected on flat ground.
  • the invention concerns strip supporting carriages with slim design and anti-tilting-over system, as well as passive, central hooking and unhooking system of the strip supporting carriages placed at dedicated locations with a maintaining system in these locations when unhooked.
  • the present invention is intended to be used in continuous strip processing lines such as pickling, continuous milling, PLTCM, continuous annealing, galvanizing, tin plating, color coating, anodizing, polishing, ... lines for the metal industry. There are also potential applications thereof in continuous processing lines for the production of plastic or fabrics.
  • Horizontal strip accumulators with strip supporting carriages are more and more requested due to their reliability compared to accumulators with roll gates and to the fact that they do not affect the strip, even under adverse conditions.
  • Accumulators such as those used in the context of the present invention comprise several parts: on one side fixed rolls, which feed and recover the strip in the accumulator, on the other side an accumulator carriage driving on rails.
  • the accumulator carriage generates the loops for strip accumulation.
  • the forward direction is normally specified when the carriage enlarges the strip loops.
  • the backwards movement happens while diminishing the loops.
  • the force needed to enlarge the strip loops is typically transmitted by a winch, rope and pulley system attached to the accumulator carriage.
  • the backwards movement is performed by the strip tension force, counterbalanced in consequence by the winch.
  • the strip accumulator carriage is followed by several strip supporting carriages, which shall limit the strip sag to avoid that strip strands rub on each other.
  • the strip support carriages are hooked to the accumulator carriage and to each other, when the accumulator is at its minimum strip filling. These strip supporting carriages have to be distributed at a required inter-distance over the accumulator length to fulfill their desired function, when filling the accumulator with strip.
  • the strip support carriages are collected by the looper carriage and hooked to it or to the support carriage already attached thereto, when the loop diminishes.
  • the hooking and unhooking system is most crucial for a system with no proper strip support carriage drive:
  • a completely passive system is used in the horizontal strip accumulator ( FR 2 698 803 A1 ) using a hook and cam system with complicated locking/unlocking, but it is not applied in the carriage centre, which requests special precautions, especially for carriage guiding on the rail and for the rail fixations.
  • Document EP 2 468 428 A1 relates to a horizontal strip accumulator in a continuous processing strip line, comprising a looping carriage riding on a pair of external rails, and a plurality of adjacent strip supporting roll carriages riding on the same external rails to support the strip between the looping carriage and a strip feeding location, wherein the strip supporting carriages have a horizontal triangular lower part and a vertical framework, the triangular lower part having an open transverse base opposite to an apex, to allow the telescoping of the strip supporting carriages in the internal triangular space between the open base and the two other triangular sides rejoining at the opposite apex.
  • the present invention aims at avoiding drawbacks on prior art.
  • the invention pursues the following goals:
  • the present invention relates to a horizontal strip accumulator installation in a continuous strip processing line, comprising a looping carriage riding on a pair of external rails, which enlarges or diminishes strip loops in order to maintain a constant strip speed in a processing section, while an adjacent processing section runs for a certain time at a different speed, with a plurality of strip supporting carriages, each comprising a vertical frame disposed on two wheels riding on the same external rails, having traverses and supporting rolls located transversally with regard to the vertical frame to support the strip between the looping carriage and a strip feeding location, characterised in that the vertical frame is connected on each side of the strip to inclined brackets provided with guiding cam rollers riding in respective guiding profiles or girders located under the rails, so as to guide the strip supporting carriage on the external rails in an anti-tilting-over manner.
  • the installation of the invention also includes one or more of the following characteristics:
  • the horizontal accumulator 1 comprises strip supporting carriages 2 specifically consisting of a vertical frame 3 disposed on two wheels 4 riding on the same rails 5 as the accumulator looping carriage (the latter not shown). These frames 3 are equipped with the necessary strip supporting rolls 6. The traverses 7 of the frame 3 are located where they do not hinder the strip loop 10.
  • the forward movement of the looping carriage corresponding to the enlarging of the strip loops, defines the sides of the carriages.
  • the front side of the carriage corresponds to the side turned to the direction of forward movement or of enlarging loops.
  • the back side of the carriage corresponds to the side turned to the direction of backwards movement or of reducing loops.
  • Brackets 8 are fixed under a given angle to the vertical frame 3 on either side. These brackets 8 are equipped with cam rollers 12 riding in an open profile 9, having for example a shape of type "C", “H”, “I” or “U”, which is located under the rails 5, in order to obtain a guiding and anti-tilting-over system 11 of the frame 3. These brackets 8 can be either on the inner or outer side of the frame 3, according to the design requirements.
  • Guiding cam rollers 12 are also provided to the vertical frame 3 to guide each strip supporting carriage 2 laterally on either side of rail 5 close to a wheel 4.
  • the lowest traverse 7 of the frame 3 has, in its centre, a fixed hook 13 on one side, and a hook eye 14 on the other side, the latter being capable to be raised and lowered thanks to an articulation.
  • This hook eye 14 cannot be lowered below the lowest end of an external slope 15 of the adjacent hook 13 allowing an automatic hooking to the next strip supporting carriage 2 or to the accumulator carriage, when it comes close thereto.
  • the hook eye 14 is then raised by progressive sliding on the slope 15 of the hook 13 until if falls in hook opening 16.
  • the hook eye 14 is equipped with a traverse 17, which is wider than the strip 10, but smaller than the interior of the frame 3 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • a traverse 17 which is wider than the strip 10, but smaller than the interior of the frame 3 ( FIG. 2 ).
  • an unhooking cam system 18 underneath the lower carriage traverse 7 raises a hook eye traverse cam roller 20 thanks to a slope 19, when this cam roller 20 travels over the latter, which results in the desired unhooking of the carriage 2 ( FIG. 3 ).
  • the hook eye 14 and its traverse 17 are in a lower position than being hooked, when riding backwards after unhooking. This effect is used to provide with cooperating spade 24 and the backwards stop 21 a support carriage lock preventing its possible further backwards movement.
  • the spade 24 on the traverse 17 is higher than the return stop 21 and backwards travelling is possible.
  • the height of the cam roller 20 located on the traverse 17 and the unhooking and backwards stop system 18 and 21 have to be arranged in such a way that it does work only for the dedicated strip support carriage 2, while the other, still hooked, support carriages are not affected. This can also be achieved by varying the width of the different traverses.
  • a shock absorber 22 is provided to stop the forward movement of each strip supporting carriage 2 at the instant when the latter is unhooked in its specific location.
  • the shock absorbers 22 and their respective buffer stops 23 are arranged so that only the right unhooked strip supporting carriage 2 is stopped, e.g. arranged at different heights.
  • the strip supporting rolls 6 are fixed to the frame 3 either on its vertical parts or on particular roll traverses, if separated rolls over the width are used.
  • the present invention shows the following advantages.
  • a first advantage of this strip supporting system is the minimum of space necessary for accommodating the strip supporting carriages, while the latter are still fulfilling their required functions. No extra drive or transmission system is necessary for them.
  • Another advantage is that using a rail attached onto an open profile is beneficial for the rail attaching system and does not affect the total accumulator height.
  • the girders under the rails can be used for the guiding and anti-tilting-over system.
  • the simple unhooking, locking and hooking system according to the present invention is completely mechanic and automatic, without needing any external power, that means it is passive. It has the great advantage being lodged in the carriage centre avoiding undesired efforts or moments in the system, which requires special devices to overcome or prevent mechanical problems. This allows using open U or similar profiles for the support carriage framework, resulting in lighter strip supporting carriages.
  • a first disadvantage is that two extra open profiles are necessary under the rails, but they have also a beneficial counterbalancing effect as there will be less fixations on the ground than with usual rail arrangement.
  • brackets with their cam roller system replace in a favorable manner the second pair of wheels requested by prior art solutions, but it makes the system a bit wider.

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EP13152589.1A EP2759350B1 (en) 2013-01-24 2013-01-24 Horizontal strip accumulator with slim strip supporting carriages and passive central hooking system
ES13152589.1T ES2686371T3 (es) 2013-01-24 2013-01-24 Acumulador de banda horizontal con carros de soporte de banda delgados y sistema central pasivo de enganche
BE2013/0213A BE1021584B1 (fr) 2013-01-24 2013-03-27 Accumulateur de bande horizontal avec de minces chariots de support de bande et un systeme d'accrochage central passif.
CN201480004843.7A CN104918724B (zh) 2013-01-24 2014-01-17 具有细长带材支承滑架和无源中心挂钩系统的水平带材贮料器
RU2015134306A RU2644088C9 (ru) 2013-01-24 2014-01-17 Горизонтальный накопитель полосы с тонкими поддерживающими полосу каретками и пассивной центральной прицепляющей системой
PCT/EP2014/050855 WO2014114561A1 (en) 2013-01-24 2014-01-17 Horizontal strip accumulator with slim strip supporting carriages and passive central hooking system
IN6482DEN2015 IN2015DN06482A (ru) 2013-01-24 2015-07-23

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