EP3184184B1 - Station de finition d'une machine de production de tuyaux carrés - Google Patents

Station de finition d'une machine de production de tuyaux carrés Download PDF

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EP3184184B1
EP3184184B1 EP16205511.5A EP16205511A EP3184184B1 EP 3184184 B1 EP3184184 B1 EP 3184184B1 EP 16205511 A EP16205511 A EP 16205511A EP 3184184 B1 EP3184184 B1 EP 3184184B1
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Vittorio Travini
Riccardo Bosoni
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D5/00—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
    • B21D5/06—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles
    • B21D5/10—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles for making tubes
    • B21D5/12—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles for making tubes making use of forming-rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D5/00—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
    • B21D5/06—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles
    • B21D5/08—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles making use of forming-rollers
    • B21D5/086—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles making use of forming-rollers for obtaining closed hollow profiles

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  • the object of the present invention is a finishing station of a machine for continuously producing square pipes, i.e. with square or rectangular section.
  • a machine for the continuous forming of square pipes comprises a plurality of forming stations which progressively bend a strip of sheet metal, followed by a finishing section comprising at least one station which brings further together, in view of final welding, the edges of the sheet metal strip bent by the forming stations, and at least one station for the final welding of the square pipe.
  • Machines for forming square pipes by means of continuous bending of strips of sheet metal are well known in the art and comprise, in series one with the other, a plurality of stations wherein the strip of sheet metal is progressively deformed by pairs of joined rollers, i.e. having grooves with complementary profiles.
  • JP 2004 283844 A describes a machine for the production of square pipes comprising stations made up of a lower cylindrical roller with horizontal axis on which the square pipe rests, two lateral conical rollers with variable axes and two upper conical rollers with horizontal axis and with variable conicity.
  • a machine defined as machine with variable linear geometry, is described in the European patent application, published as EP 2279807 , in the name of the same Applicant OLIMPIA 80 S.R.L., and provides a variable number of so-called "pipe forming" steps wherein the originally flat sheet metal is deformed, creating the lower and upper edges of a square or rectangular profile by means of adjustable rollers, and therefore adaptable to several sizes of pipes to be produced, which press on the sheet metal both from the outside and from the inside of the profile of the pipe being formed until the latter is sufficiently open.
  • the pipe forming section is followed by a "pipe finishing" section wherein, it no longer being possible to act with rollers inside the profile of the pipe, rollers are provided which act from the outside to confer the final profile of the pipe before welding.
  • the finishing section comprises a plurality of stations, each of which comprises a lower roller placed under the square pipe being formed, a pair of rollers with vertical axis, adjustable horizontally, placed at the sides of the square pipe being formed, and a pair of rollers with horizontal axes, distanced longitudinally and adjustable vertically, placed above the square pipe being formed.
  • the lateral rollers with vertical axes are conical rollers in order to adapt to the lateral profile of the square pipe being formed and are placed in line with the lower roller.
  • the upper rollers are instead biconical rollers, again in order to adapt to the upper profile of the square pipe being formed and, as mentioned, are staggered longitudinally in order not to interfere with the lateral conical rollers.
  • the object of the invention is that of eliminating the disadvantages mentioned above. More particularly an object of the invention is that of providing a finishing station with an arrangement of the rollers such as to avoid any displacement or twisting or undulation of the square pipe being formed.
  • Another object of the invention is that of providing an arrangement and configuration of the rollers such as to make the corresponding finishing station compact.
  • Yet another object of the invention is that of providing a finishing station which allows containing of the longitudinal extension of a finishing section with several stations.
  • finishing station according to the invention which has the features of the annexed independent claim 1.
  • a finishing station apt to reduce the aperture of a square pipe during its formation, coming out from a forming section, comprises a lower cylindrical roller with horizontal axis which acts as support for the lower side of the square pipe being formed; two lateral conical rollers with vertical axes, placed at the respective sides of the square pipe being formed, with the conical shells in contact with these sides, and two upper conical or cylindrical rollers placed above the square pipe being formed, with the shells parallel to respective portions of the upper open side of the square pipe being formed, the axes of all five rollers being placed in the same transverse section of the production line of the machine, each roller being movable in a direction parallel to the section of a surface of revolution of an adjacent roller, with the lower roller movable horizontally, in order to adapt to the dimensions of the pipe to be produced.
  • the finishing station 10 comprises a lower cylindrical roller 1 with horizontal axis, two conical lateral rollers 2, 3 with vertical axes, and two upper rollers 4, 5, with appropriately slanted axes, which in the embodiment shown are slightly conical, but which could also be perfectly cylindrical. All the rollers are placed with the respective axes in the same cross section of the production line or of the pipe being formed, that is, in the same vertical transverse plane of the machine, and are provided with the movements which are to be described here below, in order to adapt to the range of pipes to be produced.
  • all the rollers have a perfectly flat side or base, and the other appropriately grooved, with a conical perimeter profile which is tangent, short of a minimum offset, to the shell of an adjacent roller.
  • the providing of grooved sides on all five rollers has been done for a reason of symmetry, so that optionally the rollers can be placed symmetrically with respect to the vertical axis X, i.e. with an overturning of Figures 2-9 around this axis. From the description that is to follow it will be seen however that in the arrangement shown the rollers 3 and 4 would not need to have grooved sides.
  • the angle formed by the left 104 and right 105 portions of the open upper side with the corresponding left 103 and right 102 sides of the pipe is slightly obtuse, while it would be perfectly straight if the upper rollers 4, 5 were cylindrical.
  • the conicity of the lateral rollers 2, 3 and the slant of the upper rollers 4, 5 will vary on the basis of the position of the finishing station 100 in the production line, i.e. on the basis of the degree of closure of the pipe being formed, it being understood that such a station cannot be used in the final stages of closure of the pipe due to the impossibility of being able to physically arrange the upper rollers 4, 5.
  • Figure 5 shows schematically the movement of the lower roller 1. Since the centre 0 of the lower side of the pipe does not vary as the size being produced varies, the lower roller accomplishes a horizontal movement a - a only, so that the upper right apex A of the section of the roller is always located at the lower right apex of the pipe.
  • Figure 6 shows the movement of the right lateral roller 2.
  • the roller accomplishes a relative oblique movement b - b with respect to the roller 1 so that the upper left apex B of the section of the roller is always located at the upper right apex of the pipe.
  • the roller 2 moves horizontally together with the roller 1 to avoid interference with the latter, therefore the absolute movement comes from the combination of a - a and b - b .
  • the roller 1 has the right side grooved with a conical inner perimeter surface 1' which matches the conicity of the conical roller 2 corresponding to the slant of the right side 102 of the pipe 100.
  • the roller 2 has the upper base or side grooved with a conical inner perimeter surface 2' for the reasons to be given here below.
  • Figure 7 shows the movement of the lateral left roller 3.
  • the roller accomplishes a horizontal movement c - c so that the lower right apex C of the section of the roller is always located at the lower left apex of the pipe.
  • the conicity of the roller 3 corresponds to the slant of the left side 103 of the pipe 100, which is identical to that of the right side 102. Therefore the roller 103 has the same configuration of the roller 102, including a grooved upper base with a conical inner perimeter surface 3' like the corresponding grooved upper base of the roller 2, for the reasons of symmetry disclosed previously. However in the illustrated arrangement of rollers, the upper base of the roller 3 could be perfectly flat.
  • Figure 8 shows the movement of the upper left roller 4.
  • the roller accomplishes a relative oblique movement d - d with respect to roller 3, parallel to the conical shell thereof, so that the lower right apex D of the section of the roller is always located at the upper left apex of the pipe.
  • the roller 4 moves horizontally together with the roller 3 to avoid interference with the latter, therefore the absolute movement comes from the combination of d - d and c - c .
  • the roller 4 has such a slant that its shell is arranged parallel to the left portion 104 of the upper side of the pipe.
  • Figure 9 shows the movement of the upper right roller 5, as well as the movement of all the other rollers.
  • the roller 5 accomplishes a relative oblique movement e - e with respect to the roller 2 with its shell (placed parallel to the right portion 105 of the upper side of the pipe) which runs tangentially to the inner conical surface 2' of the roller 2.
  • the roller 5 moves together with the roller 2 to avoid interference with the latter, therefore the absolute movement of the roller 5 comes from the combination of e - e , b - b , a - a .
  • the roller 5 also has the left side grooved with a conical inner perimeter surface 5' apt to house the shell of the roller 4, avoiding the interference with the same.
  • All the rollers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of the finishing station 10 are normally mounted idle around their relevant axes.
  • finishing stations can be provided with the rollers shaped and placed in such a way that their shells work on the respective sides of the pipe being formed, on the basis of the degree of closure of the pipe itself.

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  1. Poste de finition (10) d'une machine destinée à la production continue de tuyau carré, capable de réduire l'ouverture d'un tuyau carré (100) pendant sa formation, comprenant un rouleau cylindrique inférieur (1) muni d'un axe horizontal qui agit en tant que support pour le côté inférieur (101) du tuyau carré ; deux rouleaux latéraux coniques (2, 3) équipés d'axes verticaux, conçus pour être placés aux côtés respectifs (102, 103) du tuyau carré, dont les voiles coniques sont en contact avec ces côtés, et deux rouleaux coniques ou cylindriques supérieurs (4, 5), conçus pour être placés au-dessus du tuyau carré, dont les voiles sont en contact avec des parties respectives (104, 105) du côté supérieur ouvert du tuyau carré, les axes de tous les cinq rouleaux (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) étant placés sur un même plan transversal vertical de la machine,
    dans lequel ledit rouleau cylindrique inférieur (1), au moins un desdits rouleaux coniques latéraux (2, 3) et au moins un desdits rouleaux coniques ou cylindriques supérieurs (4, 5) comporte une base ou un côté rainuré équipé d'une surface de périmètre interne conique respective (1', 2', 3', 4', 5') capable d'abriter le voile d'un rouleau adjacent de façon à s'adapter aux dimensions du tuyau devant être produit.
  2. Poste de finition selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que tous les rouleaux possèdent un flan ou une base rainuré, les deux rouleaux latéraux (2, 3) et les rouleaux supérieurs (4, 5) étant identiques l'un à l'autre.
  3. Poste de finition selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, de façon à s'adapter aux dimensions du tuyau devant être produit, ledit rouleau inférieur (1) est capable d'accomplir un premier mouvement horizontal (a-a) seulement, de telle sorte qu'un sommet supérieur de la section du rouleau, le sommet droit (A), soit toujours situé au niveau du sommet inférieur droit du tuyau.
  4. Poste de finition selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le dit rouleau latéral droit (2) est capable d'accomplir un premier mouvement oblique relatif (b, b) parallèle au côté correspondant (102) du tuyau étant formé, de telle sorte que le sommet supérieur gauche (B) de la section du rouleau soit toujours situé au niveau du sommet supérieur droit du tuyau, et un mouvement a-a conjointement au rouleau (1) de façon à éviter les interférences avec ce dernier, de telle sorte que le mouvement absolu soit la combinaison du premier mouvement horizontal (a-a) et du premier mouvement oblique relatif (b-b).
  5. Poste de finition selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que ledit rouleau latéral gauche (3) est capable d'accomplir un deuxième mouvement horizontal (c-c) de telle sorte que le sommet inférieur droit (C) de la section du rouleau soit toujours situé au niveau du sommet inférieur gauche du tuyau.
  6. Poste de finition selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le dit rouleau supérieur gauche (4) est capable d'accomplir un deuxième mouvement oblique relatif (d-d) par rapport au rouleau (3), parallèle au voile conique de celui-ci, de telle sorte que le sommet inférieur droit (D) de la section du rouleau (4) soit toujours situé au niveau du sommet supérieur gauche du tuyau, et un mouvement horizontal conjointement au rouleau (3) de façon à éviter les interférences avec ce dernier, de telle sorte que le mouvement absolu provient de la combinaison du deuxième mouvement oblique relatif (d-d) et du deuxième mouvement horizontal (c-c).
  7. Poste de finition selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le dit rouleau supérieur droit (5) est capable d'accomplir un troisième mouvement oblique relatif (e-e) parallèle à la surface conique intérieure (2') du rouleau latéral droit (2) et de se déplacer conjointement au rouleau (2) pour éviter les interférences avec ce dernier, de telle sorte que le mouvement absolu du rouleau (5) provient de la combinaison du troisième mouvement oblique relatif (e-e), du premier mouvement oblique relatif (b-b) et du premier mouvement horizontal (a-a).
  8. Poste de finition selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la surface de périmètre intérieur conique (5') du rouleau (5) abrite le voile du rouleau (4), évitant les interférences avec ce rouleau.
  9. Machine destinée à la formation continue de tuyau carré comprenant, en série l'un avec l'autre, une section de formation adéquate pour l'incurvation progressive d'une barre de feuillets métalliques, une section de finition destinée à réunir encore plus les bords supérieurs de la bande de feuillet métallique incurvé et une section destinée à la soudure du tuyau carré formé, caractérisée en ce que la section de finition comprend au moins un poste de finition (10) l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
  10. Procédé permettant de réduire l'ouverture d'un tuyau carré (100) pendant sa formation à l'aide d'au moins un poste de finition (10) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8.
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