EP3619333A1 - Dispositif pour le traitement d'une bande métallique - Google Patents

Dispositif pour le traitement d'une bande métallique

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EP3619333A1
EP3619333A1 EP18728792.5A EP18728792A EP3619333A1 EP 3619333 A1 EP3619333 A1 EP 3619333A1 EP 18728792 A EP18728792 A EP 18728792A EP 3619333 A1 EP3619333 A1 EP 3619333A1
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metal strip
magnets
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blower
stabilization
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Pascal Fontaine
Dominique Fontaine
Thomas Daube
Michael Zielenbach
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Fontaine Engineering und Maschinen GmbH
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Definitions

  • the invention relates to a device for treating a metal strip, after this from a coating container with liquid Be Anlagenungsmatenal, z. As zinc has leaked.
  • Such devices are basically known in the art, such. From international patent application WO 2012/172648 A1 and German patent applications DE 10 2009 051 932 A1, DE 10 2007 045 202 A1 and DE 10 2008 039 244 A1. Specifically, these documents disclose a coating container which is filled with liquid coating material. For coating, the metal strip is passed through the container with the coating material. After leaving the coating container, the metal strip passes through a blow-off device or nozzle arranged above the coating container for blowing off excess parts of the still liquid coating material which adheres to the surface of the metal strip. Above the blower is supported by the blower supported electromagnetic stabilization device, also called Dynamic Electro Magnetic Coating Optimizer DEMCO, arranged to stabilize the belt after leaving the coating container and the blower.
  • a blow-off device or nozzle arranged above the coating container for blowing off excess parts of the still liquid coating material which adheres to the surface of the metal strip.
  • the blower supported electromagnetic stabilization device also called Dynamic Electro Magnetic Coating Optimizer DEMCO, arranged to stabilize
  • the electromagnetic stabilizing device generates electromagnetic forces, with the aid of which the metal strip is held centrally in a center plane of the entire device; a swinging of the metal strip during the passage of particular of the blower is at least reduced in this way.
  • the electromagnetic stabilization device is arranged quite far above the blow-off device.
  • the stabilizing effect exerted by the stabilizing device on the metal strip only reaches the blow-off device to a limited extent.
  • the forces to be generated by the stabilizer which are necessary to stabilize the metal strip in the region of the remote blower, are relatively large in the prior art. Accordingly, the energy required to operate the stabilizer is relatively high.
  • the stabilizing device is arranged above the nozzle carrier or the traverse, because thereby the access to the metal strip in the region of the nozzle carrier is made considerably more difficult.
  • the invention has the object of developing a known device for treating a metal strip to the effect that the efficiency of the machine is further increased.
  • Pot magnets in contrast to the usual magnets with horseshoe-shaped iron core have the advantage that they are built much more compact. Ie., their outer dimensions are significantly smaller compared to other magnets with iron core in design for the generation of an equal magnetic force. This in turn offers the advantage that the vertical distance between the stabilization device and the blow-off device can be further reduced and thus the efficiency of the machine can be further increased.
  • the magnetic coils have no or only a very small influence on the stripping behavior or the air flow of the blower.
  • a horizontal traverse also called nozzle carrier, mounted between two vertical uprights.
  • the blower On the Traverse the blower is attached, preferably below the traverse hanging on this.
  • the stabilization device is also preferably suspended below the traverse, but between the traverse and the blow-off device. The support of the stabilization device on the traverse is independent of the attachment of the blower to the crossbeam.
  • the arrangement of both the stabilizing device as well as the blower below the traverse has the advantage that the area above the traverse, and thus also a spanned by the Traverse slot for carrying the metal strip for an operator are very easily accessible.
  • a closer arrangement of the stabilizing device on the blower is made possible at a distance of 100-800 mm, preferably in a distance range of 100-550 mm or more preferably in a distance range of 100-450 mm. Due to the small distance from the stabilizer less Force are generated to stabilize the metal strip in the blower or nozzle. As a result, the energy requirement of the stabilization device is reduced and the device is more efficient overall.
  • each of the magnets is preferably associated with a separate distance sensor for preferably continuously detecting the distance of the respective magnet from the metal strip.
  • this distance sensor is arranged in each case in the middle of the coreless hollow pot coil. This offers the advantage that the distance sensors do not require any additional space in addition to the magnets within the electromagnetic stabilization device, as a result of which the entire stabilization device can in turn be made substantially more compact.
  • the distance sensor is thermally and mechanically protected in the eye of the pot coil. The thermal protection is because the distance sensor is not exposed to the direct heat radiation from the Zinkpot.
  • the distance sensor may be formed as an eddy current sensor or as an optical sensor.
  • the device further comprises a control device for regulating the position of the metal strip in the slot of the electromagnetic stabilization device to a predetermined desired center position, also called a pass line.
  • the regulation takes place in accordance with the distances between the magnets and the metal strip determined by the distance sensors by suitable variation of the current through the coils of the magnets.
  • the distance sensors in conjunction with the control device contribute to the fact that the metal strip can be held in the desired center position in the slot of the electromagnetic stabilization device, which in turn advantageously contributes to a more uniform coating thickness on the metal strip.
  • the individual fastening of the blow-off device and the stabilization device on the cross-beam takes place via independent displacement devices.
  • the blower is attached via a blow-off displacement device to the crossbar, but displaceable relative to the traverse.
  • the stabilization device is attached to the traverse via a stabilization displacement device, but displaceable relative to the traverse.
  • each individual one of the magnets of the electromagnetic stabilizing device is individually associated with a displacement device. This makes it possible for each individual magnet to be attached to the crossbeam and to be displaceable relative to the crossbeam.
  • the displacement devices each allow different degrees of freedom for the movement of the blower and the stabilizing device relative to the center plane of the device and also with respect to the metal strip.
  • the displacements enable a displacement of the blow-off device and the stabilization device relative to one another.
  • the displacement devices enable a displacement of the blow-off device, of the stabilization device as a whole or optionally also of the individual magnets of the stabilization device relative to one another.
  • the displacement devices each allow an individual displacement of the individual magnets relative to one another in the width direction of the metal strip, ie in the longitudinal direction of the crossbar.
  • the crossbeam is mounted vertically displaceably on the vertical uprights together with the blow-off and stabilizing devices attached thereto.
  • the vertical uprights can be moved together with the traverse parallel to each other in the horizontal plane.
  • the crossbeam is pivotally mounted on one of the vertical posts about a fixed pivot point (fixed side) in a horizontal plane and the crossbeam is loosely mounted on the other vertical post (loose side), pivoting of the crossbeams is also possible. se in the horizontal plane possible.
  • the magnets of the stabilizing device are arranged on both sides of the metal strip.
  • the tensile forces then exerted on the band by the magnets can each be set individually in such a way that they partially compensate one another or hold the band in the center position.
  • a separate control device which moves the magnets parallel to the plane of the metal strip but possibly also on both sides of the metal strip to each other so that the tensile forces generated by the offset magnet generate bending moments in the metal strip, which are formed so that troughs and Wave crests in the metal band are balanced as possible. This will make the metal band flat.
  • the blow-off device has an air gap in each case on both sides of the metal strip.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized by a collision protection device for retracting the electromagnetic stabilization device, in particular the individual magnets, preferably together with their housings, and preferably also for retracting the blow-off device. direction in the event of a fault.
  • the retraction of the stabilizing device and / or the blow-off then takes place away from the metal strip, in particular in a direction transverse to the plane of the metal strip, so that the metal strip as possible does not collide with the magnets or sensors.
  • a disturbance is, for example, a tape break or the recognition that a wrong tape is being coated.
  • FIG. 1 shows a widthwise view of the device according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a cross section through the device according to the invention
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show top views of the slots of the blow-off device according to the invention or of the electromagnetic stabilization device according to the invention, each with marking of the desired center position and different undesired actual positions of the metal strip.
  • FIG. 1 shows the device 100 according to the invention. It comprises two laterally arranged, vertically extending uprights 150, on which a traverse 130, also called a nozzle carrier, is mounted so as to be vertically movable, see the double arrows in FIG.
  • the device 100 is further pivotable in the horizontal plane. bar.
  • one of the two stands 150 is formed as a fixed side A, on which the traverse is pivotally mounted about a vertical axis of rotation.
  • the opposite stand is designed as a loose side B and supports the traverse only vertically.
  • the device 100 and in particular the crossmember 130 can be aligned symmetrically with respect to this by means of a stator displacing device 158 with an inclined metal band 200 by pivoting in the horizontal.
  • the broad sides of the traverse should always be aligned parallel to the metal strip and both have an equal distance to this.
  • blower hangs 1 10 or nozzle At the traverse 130 a blower hangs 1 10 or nozzle.
  • the coupling of the blow-off device 1 10 to the traverse 130 is not rigid, but via a blow-off displacement device 1 15, which is formed, the blower 1 10 relative to the crossbar 130 in the horizontal plane, d. H. in particular perpendicular to the center plane 160 of the device to relocate.
  • the blow-off displacement device 1 15 is designed to pivot the blower 1 10 about its own longitudinal axis L and so make suitable against the metal strip 200.
  • the stabilizing device 140 includes a plurality of individual magnets 144 on each side of the metal strip. Preferably, all these magnets are designed as a pot magnet. Preferably, each of these magnets is individually attached via a stabilizing displacement device 145 to the crossbar. These stabilizing displacement devices 145 allow for individual translatory displacement of each individual magnet in the horizontal plane relative to the traverse, ie perpendicular and parallel to the center plane 160 of the device 100, especially in the longitudinal direction of the traverse. In addition, the stabilizer displacement device 145 may also be configured to pivot the stabilizer 140 in the horizontal plane relative to the crossbar 130 and relative to the blower 110 about a vertical axis of rotation.
  • pot magnets are not limited to the arrangement between traverse and blower. Rather, the pot magnets can also be arranged above the traverse.
  • FIG. 2 shows the device according to the invention from FIG. 1 in a cross-sectional view.
  • the reference numeral 170 denotes a control device for controlling the stabilization displacement devices 145.
  • a coating container 300 can be seen, which is basically arranged underneath the device 100.
  • the metal strip 200 to be coated is guided in the transport direction R into the coating container 300 with the liquid coating material 310 and deflected there by means of a deflection roller 320 into the vertical. It then passes from bottom to top, first the blower 1 10 and subsequently the stabilizer 140.
  • the present invention provides in an advantageous embodiment that the distance d between the line of action of the maximum force F of the stabilizing device on the metal strip 200 and the air outlet gap 1 12th in a range of 100 to 800 mm, preferably in a range of 100 to 550 mm, or more preferably in a range of 100 to 450 mm.
  • the blower 1 10 biases a slot 122 through which the metal strip 200 is guided. With the aid of the blow-off device, excess coating material is blown off the surface of the metal strip 200.
  • Device 1 10 in a predetermined desired center position also called center plane 160 or the reference line reference position passes through, as symbolized in Figure 3 in the form of the solid line in the X direction.
  • This desired center position is characterized in particular by uniform distances or distance distributions to the inner edges of the slot 122 of the blower 1 10.
  • possible unwanted actual positions of the metal strip are also shown as dashed lines in FIG.
  • undesired actual layers for the metal strip 200 for example, consist in that it is twisted with respect to the desired central position or shifted in parallel in the Y direction.
  • FIG. 4 shows a third possible undesired actual position in which the metal strip 200 is opposite the desired center position in the X direction, ie. H. is shifted parallel in the width direction.
  • the electromagnetic stabilizing device 140 in turn has a slot 142, through which the metal strip 200 is also guided. Again, it is true that the metal strip 200 preferably passes through the slot 142 in a predetermined nominal center position 160, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. This is achieved in that the forces provided by the magnets of the electromagnetic stabilizer 140 act in a suitable manner on the metal strip 200. The same applies to the slot 142 and the target center position also intended there as with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 for the slot 122 of the blower device 1 10.
  • a first detection device 154 is further arranged for detecting a deviation of the actual position of the metal strip 200 from a predetermined desired center position in the slot 122 of the blower 1 10.
  • the first detection means 154 only for detecting the actual position of the metal strip be educated.
  • a control device 180 is provided for regulating the actual position of the metal strip 200 to the predetermined desired center position 128 in the slot 122 of the blower, as explained above with reference to Figures 3 and 4.
  • This regulation can take place a) by displacing the blow-off device 1 10 by means of a blow-off displacement device 15 and / or b) by displacing the cross-beam 130 to which the blow-off device 1 10 hangs with the aid of a stator displacement device 158.
  • the regulation takes place in response to the detected deviation from actual to desired position. If the determination of the deviation of the actual position from the desired center position does not take place in the first detection device 154, it can also take place within the control device 180, for example.
  • the displacement of the blower 1 10 takes place in a horizontal plane transverse to the transport direction R of the metal strip in accordance with the detected deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from the predetermined desired center position in the slot 122 of the blower.
  • the blower 1 10 is displaced by means of the blow-off displacement device 15 15 so that the metal strip, the slot 122 of the blower again in the passes predetermined target center position 128.
  • the first detection device 154 is designed for this purpose so that it can preferably detect all three above-described with reference to Figures 3 and 4 deviating from the desired center position 128 actual positions of the metal strip 200.
  • the said displacement of the blow-off device 10 should not affect the electromagnetic stabilization device 140.
  • the control device 170 is designed to control the stabilization displacement devices 145 of the individual magnets 144 in such a way that the electromagnetic stabilization device 140 is not moved in the event of a displacement of the blow-off device 10 10 relative to a reference line reference position but remains at its original location can.
  • the stabilizer 140 and the Abblaseinhchtung 1 10 are decoupled from each other. Ie. they can be moved independently of one another and relative to one another with the aid of their respective displacement devices 145, 15.
  • the registration reference position 160 denotes a fixed-center plane of the device.
  • the desired center layers 128 relate to the slots 122, 142.
  • the control device 170 thus acts on the stabilizing Verheungseinhchtitch 145 so that in case of a displacement of the blower 1 10, the electrical stabilizers 140 preferably the exact opposite movement as the blower 110, that is, as a result, preferably remains in its original location.
  • the controller 170 may evaluate various situations.
  • the control device 170 may be configured to shift the electromagnetic stabilization device 140 or the individual magnets 144 in accordance with the deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from the predetermined desired center position of the metal strip in the slot 122 of FIG Blow-off device 1 10 perform.
  • control device 170 may be configured to perform the displacement of the electromagnetic stabilization device 140 or the individual magnets 144 in accordance with and in the opposite direction to the displacement of the blow-off device 120 detected by a second detection device 155.
  • the second detection device 155 serves to detect the displacement of the blow-off device 1 10 in relation to a reference line reference position 160 of the device 100.
  • control device 170 may be designed to shift the electromagnetic stabilization. in accordance with a detected deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from a predetermined nominal center position in the slot 142 of the electromagnetic stabilization device.
  • a third detection device 156 is provided for detecting the said deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from the predetermined desired center position in the slot 142 of the electromagnetic stabilization device 140.
  • each magnet 144 is assigned such a third detection device 156 as a distance sensor ,
  • these sensors are arranged in the pot magnet. They work, for example, optically or by means of induced eddy currents.
  • the first, second and third detection means 154, 155, 156 are each designed to detect, preferably, all conceivable deviations of an actual position of the metal strip from the desired set center position. These include, in particular, a (parallel) displacement of the metal strip in the x or y direction or a rotation, as explained above with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. Accordingly, the stabilization and blow-off displacement means 145, 1 15 - with suitable control by the control device 180 or the control device 170 - formed, the blower 1 10 and the electromagnetic stabilizer 140 in the horizontal plane transverse to the transport direction R of the metal strip in any manner to move, in particular (to move parallel) or to rotate about a vertical axis of rotation to realize the passage of the metal strip in the desired center position.
  • the first and third detection means 154, 156 and optionally also the second detection means 155 can be realized in the form of one or more optical sensor devices 190.
  • the sensor device forms a structural unit for the mentioned detection devices.
  • one sensor device 190 per coil is provided in the electromagnetic stabilization device 140.
  • the measured values of all sensor devices are typically averaged.
  • the sensor device 190 can also generally be referred to as a distance detection device.
  • control of the actual position to the sol position or to the pass line by means of the controller 170 is effected individual variation of the currents through the coils in the magnet 144.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif pour le traitement d'une bande métallique après la sortie de celle-ci d'une cuve de revêtement contenant un matériau de revêtement liquide, p. ex. du zinc. Des dispositifs connus de ce genre comprennent : un dispositif de soufflage (100) disposé au-dessus de la cuve de revêtement (300) comprenant une fente de sortie d'air (112) pour éliminer par soufflage des partie excédentaires du matériau de revêtement (310) encore liquide de la surface de la bande métallique (200) après le passage de la bande métallique (200) à travers la cuve de revêtement (300) et un dispositif de stabilisation électromagnétique (140) disposé au-dessus du dispositif de soufflage (110), comprenant une pluralité d'aimants individuels (144) pour la stabilisation de la bande métallique après sa sortie de la cuve de revêtement (300) et du dispositif de soufflage (110). Pour augmenter l'efficacité du dispositif, au moins certains des aimants (144) du dispositif de stabilisation (140) sont réalisés selon l'invention sous forme d'aimants cuirassés avec une bobine à noyau en pot.
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