EP3086888B1 - Waschvorrichtung und verfahren für rohrabschnitte - Google Patents

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EP3086888B1
EP3086888B1 EP14816279.5A EP14816279A EP3086888B1 EP 3086888 B1 EP3086888 B1 EP 3086888B1 EP 14816279 A EP14816279 A EP 14816279A EP 3086888 B1 EP3086888 B1 EP 3086888B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • B08B3/06—Cleaning involving contact with liquid using perforated drums in which the article or material is placed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • B08B3/041—Cleaning travelling work
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/02—Cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes
    • B08B9/023—Cleaning the external surface

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  • the invention relates to a washing device according to the preamble of claim 1 and a method for cleaning cut long profile sections according to the preamble of claim 6.
  • Washing machines for cleaning pipe sections are for example from the EP 0 638 370 A1 known.
  • a disadvantage of this washing machine is that scratches can occur in the outer wall of sensitive pipes because small pipes, in particular with a diameter, can fall out of the receptacles too early and scratch them.
  • the washing machine cannot be set for pipes of different diameters.
  • BE 361 941 A describes a washing machine for bottles in which the bottles are laterally inserted with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to the direction of rotation of a drum into compartments and from there are transferred to neighboring drums. The bottles are transferred in the direction of rotation of the drums.
  • the long profile section can along an upper transport path above the axis of rotation Drum or can be transported along a lower transport path below the axis of rotation of the drum.
  • the axis of rotation of the drum is preferably arranged parallel to the ground in order to make it difficult for the long profile sections arranged in the receptacles to slip.
  • the drum is advantageously delimited by a trough on its radially outer side, in the lower area facing the ground. If the long profiles introduced into the washing machine through a receiving opening are transported along the lower transport path to the dispensing opening opposite the receiving opening, the tubes roll and slide over the radial inside of the tub and can scratch. If, according to the invention, the tubes are transported on the upper transport path from the receiving opening to the dispensing opening, the tubes lie only on the radial inside of the receptacles during transport and roll from the radially inner trailing corner to the radial if the receptacle has exceeded an apex of the rotary movement inner leading corner of each shot. During a rolling movement, however, the pipes scratch significantly less or not at all, in contrast to the sliding process.
  • the receptacles are preferably square in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
  • the side walls preferably point radially outward in the transport direction along the upper transport path.
  • an opening width of the dispensing opening can be adjusted in the circumferential direction. This prevents long cross-sections with circular cross-sections falling out of the receptacles too early in order to be sent for further processing. By setting the opening width of the dispensing opening, it is possible to largely prevent falling out of the receptacles.
  • the opening width is preferably understood to mean an expansion of the dispensing opening or receiving opening in the circumferential direction.
  • the opening width is preferably identical or essentially identical over the entire longitudinal extent, that is to say rectangular or essentially rectangular.
  • Long profile sections are understood here to mean circular profiles, preferably tubes, in cross section over their entire longitudinal extent in the outer circumference.
  • the tubes are made of metal, preferably stainless steel.
  • a radially outer side of the drum is covered by an adjustable covering device which can be rotated about the axis of rotation, the position of a longitudinal edge of the covering device determining the height of the dispensing opening.
  • the covering device can be designed as a sheet metal which is rectangular in shape in the pattern and adapted to the outer circumference of the washing drum.
  • other materials and designs are also conceivable.
  • the covering device can be pivoted back and forth in the circumferential direction about the axis of rotation of the drum.
  • the opening width of the dispensing opening is determined by a position of a longitudinal edge of the covering device and by a position of the longitudinal edge of the tub.
  • the opening width preferably corresponds to a diameter of the long profile sections plus preferably 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% of the diameter.
  • the long profile sections washed during a washing process preferably all have the same or substantially the same diameter.
  • the diameter of each long profile is preferably identical over its entire longitudinal extent.
  • the direction of rotation of the drum is changeable. This opens up an upper and a lower transport path, both of which run between the receiving opening and the discharge opening and pass the axis of rotation on their side facing away from or facing the ground. It is therefore preferable to switch between a conventional washing process with a lower transport path and a washing process with an upper transport path.
  • Cleaning stations for the long profile sections transported in the receptacles are expediently along the upper and / or the lower transport path arranged. These cleaning stations are preferably washing and / or drying stations.
  • the washing stations are preferably distinguished by the fact that water flows through the receptacle essentially in the longitudinal direction over the entire cross section of the receptacle and in the process washes the sawdust evenly over the entire longitudinal extent of the long profile sections.
  • the receptacles are delimited by side walls which are inclined radially inwards and outwards, the side walls being inclined in the direction of rotation from radially inwards to radially outwards when the direction of rotation clears the upper transport path.
  • the object is achieved with respect to the method by a method for cleaning cut long profile sections with the features of claim 6.
  • the method is particularly suitable for being carried out on one of the aforementioned washing devices.
  • a diameter of the long profile sections is determined before insertion into the washing device and an opening width of the dispensing opening is set on the basis of the measurement in the circumferential direction.
  • the opening width is preferably slightly larger than the measured diameter, preferably 5%, 10% or 15% or 20% larger.
  • the diameters of the long profile are advantageously the same over the entire longitudinal extent of the long profile and the diameters of different long profile sections of a washing process are also the same as one another.
  • the long profile sections are preferably aligned along the axis of rotation of a washing drum of the washing device before being inserted into the washing device.
  • the long profile sections are then inserted into receptacles in the washing drum via a receptacle opening by automatically rolling into the receptacles.
  • the drum is rotated about a horizontally oriented axis of rotation, and the long profile sections preferably roll out of the receptacles automatically via an output opening.
  • the long profile sections are transported between the receiving opening and the discharge opening along an upper transport path, the upper transport path passing the axis of rotation on its side facing away from the ground. This ensures according to the invention that the long profile sections inserted into the receiving chambers rest on the radial inner sides of the receiving chambers and only roll forward within the receptacles during transport and cannot scratch them.
  • the long profile sections inserted into the receptacle automatically roll inward during the receptacle along the trailing side wall of the receptacle and there into the trailing, radially inner corner of the receptacle.
  • the long profile sections automatically roll radially outward in the region of the discharge opening to the inside of the adjustable cover device. If the long profile sections have passed a longitudinal edge of the cover during their transport along the transport path, the long profile sections automatically roll out of the receptacle. This is preferably the case when the leading inner wall of the receptacle is rotated at the level of a lower edge of the dispensing opening.
  • Fig. 1 shows two washing machines 1, 2 arranged next to one another and connected in series in terms of their function.
  • Each of the washing machines 1, 2 has a drum 5, 6 which can be rotated about an axis of rotation 3, 4 oriented in the longitudinal direction L.
  • Each of the two drums 5, 6 is in Fig. 1 can be rotated clockwise and counterclockwise. In Fig. 1 turn the two drums 5, 6 clockwise.
  • the drums 5, 6 are driven by means of an electric motor (not shown). The direction of rotation can be changed.
  • the two washing machines 1, 2 shown are intended as washing stations for long profile sections which are cut to length, in particular sawn off, from a long profile, preferably an elongated metal profile, particularly preferably a long metal tube.
  • the cut pipe sections 7 are subjected to a post-treatment after the cutting process, in particular the pipe ends are chamfered, brushed and. ⁇ .. At the end of the chain of processing steps or in an intermediate step, the pipe sections 7 are also washed by means of the washing machines 1, 2 according to the invention.
  • Each of the two drums 1, 2 in Fig. 1 can have an extension in the longitudinal direction L of up to a few meters.
  • the two drums 5, 6 are formed concentrically about their respective axes of rotation 3, 4.
  • the first drum 5 has 20 receptacles 8 for a pipe section 7 or a bundle of pipe sections 7.
  • the second drum 6 following in the transport direction R1, R of the pipe sections 7 of the first drum 5 also has 20 receptacles 9.
  • the description below of the first washing machine 1 also relates in a corresponding manner to the function of the second washing machine 2.
  • the washing machine 1 has a receiving opening 11 and a dispensing opening 12 opposite it with respect to the axis of rotation 3.
  • the receiving opening 12 is formed over the substantially entire longitudinal extent of the drum 5.
  • the discharge opening 12 is also formed over the entire longitudinal extent of the drum 5.
  • the pipe sections 7 are in Fig. 1 individually conveyed to washing machine 1 and individually received in receptacles 8 via receiving opening 11.
  • the pipe sections 7 are conveyed parallel to the longitudinal direction L by means of, for example, a conveyor belt (not shown) to the washing machine 1 and then automatically roll into a receptacle 8 when the receiving opening 11 is reached via a slope due to the action of gravity.
  • Fig. 1 shows ten pipe sections 7, which in the first washing machine 1 are inserted.
  • a pipe section 7 is arranged in a receptacle 8.
  • the drum 5 of the washing machine 1 is delimited on its side facing the ground by about half its circumference by a trough 13.
  • the drum 5 is covered on its side facing away from the ground by a cover 14 which can be displaced back and forth along the transport direction R1. The movement is shown by a two-sided arrow.
  • the cover 14 extends like the tub 13 over the entire longitudinal extent of the drum 5.
  • the cover 14 extends along the circumference of the drum 1 by the sum of the dimensions of the receiving opening 11 and the discharge opening 12 in the circumferential direction less than half of the entire circumferential length.
  • the cover 14 is formed straight on its two longitudinal sides running in the longitudinal direction L, so that the receiving opening 11 is formed as a rectangular gap and the dispensing opening 12 is also formed as a rectangular gap.
  • the heights of the two columns, i.e. H. the extent thereof can be adjusted along the circumferential direction by moving the cover 14 back and forth along the circumferential direction.
  • the washing machine 1 according to the invention is particularly suitable for washing stainless steel pipes or pipes in general, the outer wall of which is sensitive to scratching, or for cleaning pipes whose outer wall must not have any scratches, such as exhaust pipes, chair legs or the like. Transport through washing machine 1 is particularly gentle.
  • the pipe sections 7 that are brought up are at a distance from one another and each roll individually into an associated receptacle 8. During the rolling process, the pipe outer surfaces do not scratch, at least the risk that they scratch significantly less than if the pipes were pushed over a surface, for example.
  • the fact that the drum 5 in Fig. 1 rotated clockwise, the pipe sections are conveyed along an upper transport path To from the receiving opening 11 to the dispensing opening 12.
  • the pipe sections 7 lie in the lower, ground-facing, trailing and radially inner corner of the respective receptacle 8 until the receptacle 8 has reached an apex S of the upper transport path To. There, the pipe section 7 rolls after the radial inner wall 16 of the receptacle 8 from a positive to a negative slope along the Is tilted circumferentially, from the trailing inner corner to the leading inner corner of the receptacle 8. During this gentle rolling movement along the inner wall 16 of the receptacle 8, no scratches are generated.
  • the pipe section 7 remains in the radially inner leading corner of the receptacle 8 until the leading side wall 17, which delimits the receptacles 8 from one another, falls radially outwards from the ground, so that the pipe section 7 runs along the leading side wall 17 rolls radially outward until the pipe section 7 abuts the radial inside of the cover 14.
  • the cover 14 is shifted forward in the transport direction R1 of the pipe sections 7 to such an extent that the discharge gap forming the discharge opening 12, which is formed by the longitudinal edge of the lower trough 13 and the longitudinal edge of the cover 14, has a height which corresponds to the diameter of the pipe, preferably plus 10%, preferably plus 15%.
  • the pipe section 7 is fed to a second washing machine 2.
  • the receptacles 8 are each open on their two end faces, so that through each of the receptacles 8, when they have reached a certain position during their rotary movement, a water flow can flow through one of the receptacles 8 in the longitudinal direction L, which section of the pipe is inserted into the receptacle 8 7 of metal chips u. ⁇ . freed.
  • the washing device (not shown) is preferably arranged between the receiving opening 11 and the apex S.
  • a first predrying device (not shown), which blows an air stream through the receptacle 8 arranged in front of it, is preferably provided between the apex S and the dispensing opening 12.
  • the pipe sections 7 are rolled out of the second washing machine 2, they are conveyed away from the second washing machine 2 on a conveyor device 20.
  • air nozzles pointing in the longitudinal direction L can be provided at the level of the pipe sections 7, which blow hot air up to 300 ° C. through the pipe sections 7 and along the pipe sections 7 in order to finally dry the pipe sections 7.
  • Fig. 2 shows the double washing machine 1, 2 of the Fig. 1 in their second mode of operation.
  • the pipe sections 7 are not transported along an upper transport path To, but rather along a lower transport path Tu, which runs between the axis of rotation 3, 4 and the ground.
  • This essentially corresponds to the conventional washing process.
  • the washing machine 1, 2 according to the invention makes it possible to switch back and forth between the washing process according to the invention and the conventional washing process.
  • a washing machine 1, 2 can use the upper transport path To and the other washing machine 1, 2 can use the lower transport path Tu.

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