GB2143458A - Method and device for removing a coating from a workpiece - Google Patents

Method and device for removing a coating from a workpiece Download PDF

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GB2143458A
GB2143458A GB08415942A GB8415942A GB2143458A GB 2143458 A GB2143458 A GB 2143458A GB 08415942 A GB08415942 A GB 08415942A GB 8415942 A GB8415942 A GB 8415942A GB 2143458 A GB2143458 A GB 2143458A
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Klaus Hotzeldt
Wolfgang Piersig
Hans Wicht
Manfred Mauksch
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23HWORKING OF METAL BY THE ACTION OF A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF ELECTRIC CURRENT ON A WORKPIECE USING AN ELECTRODE WHICH TAKES THE PLACE OF A TOOL; SUCH WORKING COMBINED WITH OTHER FORMS OF WORKING OF METAL
    • B23H5/00Combined machining
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24BMACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B1/00Processes of grinding or polishing; Use of auxiliary equipment in connection with such processes
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25FPROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC REMOVAL OF MATERIALS FROM OBJECTS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25F5/00Electrolytic stripping of metallic layers or coatings
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25FPROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC REMOVAL OF MATERIALS FROM OBJECTS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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Abstract

The aim of the invention is the clean removal of thin cover layers on metallic workpieces with high speed and accuracy of detachment with the simultaneous removal of the material detached. Electrically conductive and electrically insulated brush segments 12, 13 respectively are disposed alternately on the operative removal surface of the tool cathode and repeatedly act on the same surface unit of the workpiece surface to be continuously treated. Abraded material is removed via ducts 17 containing filters 21. The invention applies particularly to the clean removal of thin conductive and non-conducive organic and/or inorganic protective and/or cover layers directly located on the surfaces of conductive workpieces or a conductive intermediate layer (tin, chromium, aluminium layers). <IMAGE>

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SPECIFICATION A method and device for removing a coating from a workpiece The invention relates both to a method of and a device for removing a coating from a workpiece.
It is known that protective and/or cover layers, in particular layers of tin, aluminium, chromium, zinc, etc. and their oxides, on workpiece surfaces may be removed using mechanical, electrochemical and electrical techniques. A widely used method consists in the electrical removal of cover layers. For example, the scale on steels is removed by connecting the steel workpiece into a circuit with rotary steel cleaning brushes. A critical field intensity is reached by maintaining a predetermined working gap. Heat shocks are produced by means of high voltage current pulses having a steep angle of rise and a high current density, and these shocks lead to the separation of the layer as described in East German Patent Specification 148 600.
Mechanical methods are also known. For example scale is detached by bending the workpiece and a chromium coating can be ground away. Blasting agents may also be used for the removal of protective and/or cover layers, in particular scale.
In addition, it is known to use copper bands or rolls for the removal of thin layers of tin.
The treatment consists in that a heated copper band, which runs at a high speed, contacts with the tin layer and detaches it from the support material as a result of the high degree of wettability of the band, and itself absorbs the tin (Swiss Patent Specification 370 175).
However, the removal of tin by means of copper is very expensive in terms of materials.
Electrochemical methods have a high power consumption and have, in the case of the removal of protective and/or cover layers of black sheet, the drawback that the surface of the iron tends to corrode more rapidly and the speed of detachment is comparatively slow.
A layer of tin cannot be detached from the support material, for example, by bending or heat shocks.
The electrical removal of tin layers and like layers in accordance with the heat shock method cannot be used as the heat conductivity of the tin and like layers is much higher with respect to protective and/or cover layers of different types such as, for example, scale, and consequently high temperature gradients are not produced.
The use of milling or grinding tools for the removal of tin or aluminium layers and other tough materials is disadvantageous on account of the low service life, the blunting of the milling tool or the clogging of the grinding tool, the complicated supply procedures and the high manufacturing tolerance.
All the known methods, whether mechanical, electrical or electrochemical, do not ensure the clean removal of thin protective and/or cover layers from metal workpieces. In addition, the removal of the working gap and the treated surfaces has not been adequately resolved.
An object of the invention is to provide an improved coating removal method.
According to the invention there is provided a method of removing a coating from a workpiece, comprising treating the workpiece by means of a tool which sequentially and repeatedly applies mechanical and electrical removal forces to the coating.
The invention also provides a device for removing a coating from a workpiece, comprising a tool having an electrical conductive tool portion and an electrically non-conductive tool portion for treating the workpiece, means for causing an electric current to flow between the conductive tool portion and the workpiece, and means for causing said tool portions to treat the workpiece repetitively and sequentially to apply mechanical and electrical removal forces to the coating.
The invention accordingly provides a method and a device for the surface treatment of coated workpieces, by means of which different, superposed protective and/or cover layers of conductive workpieces or conductive intermediate layers on workpieces, consisting of thin electrically conductive and electrically non-conductive organic and/or inorganic substances which have been applied, and the material of the workpiece is detached by removal of the working gap and the treated surface.
In accordance with the invention, predetermined mechanical and electrical-electrothermal-mechanical removal forces supplied simultaneously from a tool are supplied repeatedly and alternately to the same surface unit of the workpiece surface to be continuously treated and act on this surface until there is a metallically clean separation of the protective and/or cover layers and the material of the workpiece. The method of the invention and the associated device effect a mechanical and an electrical-electrothermal-mechanical separation on the workpiece. Method steps for purely mechanical and electrical-electrothermal-mechanical separation effects are provided.
The device of the invention may consist in that series of electrically conductive brush segments and electrically insulated brush segments are disposed on the active separating surface of the tool.
By means of the device a non-conductive protective coating layer is initially destroyed and the layer disposed therebelow is heated to evaporation by thermal action as a result of the direct contact of the conductive brush segments, and the material removed from the workpiece surface is brushed away and re moved by means of the electrically insulated brush segments and discharge ducts.
The processes may be repeated several times, in accordance with the construction of the device and the method parameters used in each case, on a surface unit of the surface of the workpiece. This ensures that even very thick protective and/or cover layers, for example metal coatings or scale, may be removed in a relatively simple manner and that the separated material is removed. The separation effect may be varied by an optimum arrangement of the electrically conductive and the electrically insulated brush segments. A variation of this type may include the sequence, the segment angle, the total surface proportion, the electrically conductive or electrically insulated brush segments, the type and pairing of the material of the bristles and their thickness in the brush segments, the peripheral and the feed speed of device and the working gap between the workpiece and the tool cathode.
The surface treatment of solid and unstable flat workpieces may be carried out by means of the invention at high speed and with low manufacturing tolerances. A particularly advantageous feature is that in the case of unstable, flat and angular workpieces there is no undesirable removal of corners. This is achieved in that the sequence and the segment angle of the electrically conductive and the electrically insulated brush segments, together with the electrical conditions required for the removal, determine the synchronized work cycle of roughing, finishing, brushing and removal whilst ensuring the surface effect. Known drawbacks which arise with other solutions, are countered by means of the invention.
If workpieces are to be machined on both sides, two tool cathodes may be used. In order to enable the setting of the respective critical size of the working gap, the tool cathodes must be adjustable about an axis or a separate axis.
In the case of workpieces, whose conductive coated intermediate layer is to be surface treated, the intermediate layer forms the anode.
Preferably, the basic body of the tool cathode surrounds the brush segments in the shape of a cup. In this way it is ensured that the material removed is conveyed over the shortest possible path to the inlet apertures of the removal ducts.
Preferably, the tool cathode contains removal ducts in which filters are disposed, whose inlet apertures commence in a tangential manner outside of the tool cathode and whose discharge apertures end close to the axis of rotation.
The advantage consists in that the bristles protect against overheating which would increase wear and the material removed and the metal condensate are automatically captured with the simultaneous removal of the working gap and the treated surface.
The material removed is supplied, in this respect, to the tangential inlet apertures via the brush segments.
Further preferred features of the invention consist in different bristle materials. different bristle thicknesses and strengths for the electrically conductive and the electrically insulated brush segments.
In order that the invention may be more fully understood an embodiment thereof will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is an elevational view in partial section of a device for the surface treatment of coated workpieces, Fig. 2 is a partial plan view of the tool cathode with a cup-shaped support body, shown in Figure 1, and Fig. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the tool cathode.
Fig. 1 shows the device of the invention with the tool cathode in a rotatable mounting 3 on a frame 4. The tool cathode comprises a conductive shaft 9 with a slip ring 10, and a support body 14 on which is mounted a system of electrically conductive brush segments 12 and a system of electrically insulated brush segments 13. The tool cathode is supplied with an electrical current from a d.c.
source 11 via the slip ring 10. A workpiece 6 is secured to a displaceable table 5, and a working gap 7 for the surface treatment is set between the workpiece 6 and the support body 14. The size of the gap is set in accordance with the type of treatment to be performed such that the brushes 1 2,1 3 suitably contact the workpiece. The working gap 7 is set by relative movement in the direction 8 of the mounting 3 on the frame 4. The d.c.
source 11 is also connected to the workpiece 6. In use, the tool is rotated in the direction 1, such that the brush segments 12,1 3 treat the workpiece, as will be explained hereinafter.
Referring now to Figure 2, this is a partial plan view of the tool cathode showing the cup-shaped support body 14 and the brush segments 12,13. The electrically conductive brush segments 12 and the electrically insulated brush segments 13 form a continuous annular brushing track around the axis of rotation of the tool. The brush segments 12,13 are characterised by a segment angle 19 which may be adjustable. A peripheral inlet aperture 16 is provided between the support body 14 and the brush segments 1 2,13 for removal of abraded material from the workpiece 6. A removal duct 17 with an integral filter 21, communicates with the inlet aperture 16. The removal duct 17 terminates close to the axis of rotation 18 of the tool.
During rotary movement 1 of the tool cath ode when the electrical voltage has been switched on, the conductive brush segments 12 act on the workpiece in combination with the electric current to produce an electrical electrothermal-mechanical removal of a work piece coating. More particularly there is pro duced a melting of the protective and/or cover layers and a partial removal of the coating material from the workpiece 6 by the brush segments 12. Additionally, the non conductive brush segments 12 produce a purely mechanical removal of the coating ma terial. The alternate arrangement of the brush segments 12,13 results in these removal forces being repeatedly and sequentially ap plied. The work cycle, consisting of roughing, finishing, brushing and removal has a duration which is a function of the size of the segment angle 19.The rotary movement 1 and the feed movement 8 of the tool cathode as well as the directions of movement of the workpiece 6 are carried out by adjustable drives. The workpiece 6 is poled as the anode.
Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional partial view show ing the cup-shaped support body 14. The material 15 removed from the coated workpiece 6 is suctioned via the inlet apertures 16 and the removal duct 17 through the filter 21 in the direction of the axis of rotation 18. As a result of this there is a simultaneous removal of the heat produced in the working gap 7 during the electrical-electrothermal-mechanical removal and a cooling of the surface of the workpiece 6 and the bristles of the brush segments 1 2,1 3. The discharge apertures terminate in the vicinity of the axis of rotation 18.
A further embodiment of the invention for carrying out the method of the invention consists in the arrangement of the system of electrically conductive and electrically insulated brush segments on the periphery of the support body. The bristles are in this case located on the upstanding peripheral edge of the cup-shaped body 14 so as to extend radially outwardly with respect to the axis of rotation of the support body.
Also, the bristles of the conductive brush segments 12 and the non-conducting segments 13 may be of different materials and may be of different thicknesses and strengths.

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1. A method of removing a coating from a workpiece, comprising treating the workpiece by means of a tool which sequentially and repeatedly applies mechanical and electrical removal forces to the coating.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the electrical removal forces include electrothermal and/ or electromechanical forces.
3. A device for removing a coating from a workpiece comprising a tool having an electrical conductive tool portion and an electrically non-conductive tool portion for treating the workpiece, means for causing an electric cur rent to flow between the conductive tool portion and the workpiece, and means for caus ing said tool portions to treat the workpiece repetitively and sequentially to apply mechanical and electrical removal forces to the coat ing.
4. A device according to claim 3, wherein the tool comprises a rotary brush including conductive brush segments and non-conductive brush segments for said tool portions.
5. A method for the surface treatment of coated workpieces, wherein predetermined mechanical, and electrical-electrothermal-mechanical, removal forces supplied simultaneously from a tool, are supplied repeatedly and alternately to the same surface unit of the workpiece surface so as to continuously treat this surface until there is a metallically clean separation of the protective and/or cover layers from the material of the workpiece.
6. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the speed of removal and therefore also the synchronized work cycle for removal involving roughing, finishing, brushing and removal are variable and are increased by the linking of tools.
7. A device for carrying out the method as claimed in claim 5 or 6, comprising a rotary tool forued with brushes, whose bristles are located axially and/or radially on the periphery of a rotary support body, with a voltage potential between a tool and a workpiece and with a feed and a setting movement between the tool and the workpiece, wherein systems of electrically conductive brush segments and electrically insulated brush segments are disposed on the operative removal surfaces of the tool.
8. A device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the support body surrounds the system of electrically conductive brush segments and the electrically insulated brush segments and is cup shaped.
9. A device as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein the tool contains removal ducts in which filters are disposed and whose inlet apertures commence at the periphery of the tool and whose discharge apertures end close to the axis of rotation of the tool.
10. A device as claimed in any of claims 7 to 9, wherein the bristles of the electrically conductive brush segments and the electrically insulated brush segments are of different materials and/or of different bristle thickness and/or strength.
11. A method of removing a coating, according to claim 1 and substantially as hereinbefore described.
12. A device for removing a coating, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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