JP2004283702A - Coater for tubular body - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coater for a tubular body capable of simply and quickly carrying out "stepping coating" on a peripheral surface of the tubular body. <P>SOLUTION: This coater is provided with a retaining part 2 for retaining the tubular body R in the horizontal direction; a rotation means 3 for rotating the tubular body R retained on the retaining part 2 in a peripheral direction; a rail part 4 arranged parallel to the retaining part 2; and a coating blow out part movable in the length direction of the rail on the rail part 4. The coating blow out part 5 has a coating material tank 33 and a nozzle pipe 34 for blowing out the coating material from the coating tank 33. The nozzle pipe 34 made of metal is displaced to an abutting state that it is inclined toward a rotation direction of the tubular body R to abut on a peripheral surface of the tubular body R and a leaving state that the nozzle pipe 34 is left from the peripheral surface of the tubular body. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a coating machine for coating a peripheral surface of a tubular body such as a rod or a golf club constituting a fishing rod.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Many tubular bodies such as rods and golf clubs constituting recent fishing rods are made of carbon fiber reinforced resin or the like in order to reduce weight and maintain strength. Such housings and golf clubs are favorite products, and the peripheral surface is coated for smoothing, decorating, maintaining strength, etc. of the reinforcing fiber portion of the fiber reinforced resin, and further enhancing the design. Various coatings are applied as much as possible.
[0003]
The coating of the peripheral surface of such a tubular body is performed manually by a painter or using a machine, and squeeze coating using a squeeze plate (for example, see Patent Document 1) or spraying is performed. It has been broken. In addition, recently, a method of spraying paint continuously on the peripheral surface of the tubular body by spraying while rotating the tubular body has also been performed (for example, see Patent Document 2).
[0004]
By the way, there is a coating technique called “step coating” as one of the coatings for improving the design of the peripheral surface of such a tubular body. This “step coating” is a coating technique in which the coating is thickly applied in a ring shape while providing a certain thickness on the peripheral surface of the tubular body. This “step coating” is an alternative to traditionally winding a string body around the circumference of a tubular body and applying paint on it to form a ring. The purpose is to decorate the tubular body. Such “step coating” is generally performed by applying paint with a brush at a desired position on the peripheral surface of the cylindrical body while rotating the cylindrical body.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-8-299884 [0006]
[Patent Document 2]
JP-A-7-79668 [0007]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in order to perform “step coating” using a brush, a skilled person is required for the painter. That is, it is complicated to apply a desired width at an arbitrary axial position of a tubular body that is long in the axial direction, and it is difficult to maintain a constant coating width over the entire circumferential direction. In addition, “step coating” is a method in which a coating is applied thickly, the coating is applied and dried, and after drying, the thick coating is repeated again, and the work process is also complicated.
[0008]
Furthermore, since “coating” is applied so that it has a certain thickness, if “coating” is performed by spraying as in the past, it is necessary to apply the coating while maintaining a certain thickness. Advanced technology is required, and it is difficult because the paint does not fit well on the periphery of the housing. It also takes time and effort. In addition, the “step coating” may be used for imparting design properties to the tubular body as described above, and may be performed after performing normal peripheral surface coating on the tubular body. For this reason, since further coating is performed on the smoothed peripheral surface coating, “step coating” is particularly difficult.
[0009]
The subject of this invention is providing the coating machine for tubular bodies which can perform "step coating" on a surrounding surface simply and rapidly.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A coating machine according to a first aspect of the present invention is a coating machine for coating a peripheral surface of a tubular body, and a holding portion that holds the tubular body in the horizontal direction and a tubular body held by the holding portion are rotated in the circumferential direction. Rotating means, a rail part arranged in parallel with the holding part, and a paint spraying part movable on the rail part in the length direction of the rail.
[0011]
The paint spraying portion has a paint tank and a nozzle pipe that ejects paint from the paint tank, and the contact state in which the nozzle pipe contacts the circumferential surface of the tubular body, and the separated state in which the nozzle pipe is separated from the circumferential surface of the tubular body It is displaced to.
In this coating machine, a tubular body is disposed in the holding portion in the horizontal direction and held. And the tubular body hold | maintained by the rotation means rotates in the circumferential direction. The paint spraying portion moves on the rail portion to an arbitrary axial position while keeping the separated state, and is brought into a contact state here. And the front-end | tip of the nozzle pipe of a coating material ejection part contact | abuts to a tubular body surrounding surface, and moves the fixed axial direction range, applying the coating material from a coating material tank to a tubular body surrounding surface. While the nozzle pipe is in contact with the circumferential surface of the tubular body and rotating the arbitrary axial position of the tubular body, paint is placed on the circumferential surface of the tubular body at the same time, and a certain axial range of the tubular body is made ring-shaped. Paint.
[0012]
For example, in the case where a coating for undercoating has already been applied to the circumferential surface of the tubular body, the coating is applied while slightly damaging and rubbing the painted surface of the tubular body circumferential surface with this nozzle. The adhesion between the undercoat paint and the paint from the nozzle is also improved. Further, since the nozzle only scratches the part necessary for painting, an extra surface roughening process is not performed, and a beautiful finish is possible.
[0013]
A coating machine according to a second aspect of the present invention is the coating machine according to the first aspect, wherein the coating material ejecting portion is a base that is rotatable on a base placed on the rail part and a surface orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the rail part. A movable part connected to the upper side, an urging means for urging the movable part in the direction of the tubular body, and a cylinder for pushing the rotating part in the opposite direction are provided. Also, a paint supply means for supplying paint from the nozzle pipe and paint tank to the nozzle pipe is disposed on the movable part.
[0014]
In this coating machine, in the normal state, the movable portion is urged toward the tubular body by the urging means (in a contact state). And the movable part is rotated by pushing the movable part in the anti-tubular body direction with the cylinder, and the coating material ejection part is in the separated state. Further, the paint is supplied from the paint tank to the nozzle pipe by the paint supply means. The amount of paint sprayed from the nozzle pipe can also be adjusted by adjusting the paint supply means.
[0015]
The coating machine according to a third aspect is the coating machine according to the second aspect, further comprising positioning means for changing and positioning the position of the paint spraying portion on the rail portion.
In this coating machine, by inputting necessary information to the positioning means in advance, it becomes possible to easily perform step coating with a certain width at any axial position of the tubular body. A coating machine according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the coating machine according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the holding portion is a contact portion that abuts one end of the tubular body, and the other end of the tubular body is movable in the horizontal direction. And a receiving roller portion disposed between the abutting portion and the moving abutting portion so as to be able to come into contact with and separate from the tubular body.
[0016]
Tubular bodies have various axial lengths, and some have a tapered taper. In this coating machine, one end of the tubular body is brought into contact with the contact portion, and the other is sandwiched between the moving contact portions, and the tubular body having an arbitrary axial length can be held by the holding portion. In addition, since the receiving roller receives the tubular body in the middle in the axial direction, the tubular body can be stably held by the holding portion even when the axial length is long or tapered. .
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
This coating machine is a machine for coating a peripheral surface of a tubular body such as a housing or a golf club. Here, as an example of the tubular body, a description will be given of a spatula rod body R as an example. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, this coating machine includes a pedestal 1 having an upper surface as a horizontal plane, a holding unit 2 that horizontally holds the casing R on the upper surface of the pedestal 1, and the casing R in the circumferential direction. The rotating mechanism 3 rotates, the rail part 4 extends in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the upper surface of the pedestal 1, and the paint spraying part 5 that is movable in the rail length direction on the rail part 4. Further, a lifting mechanism 6 is arranged in the longitudinal direction below the paint jetting part 5 along with the rail part 4.
[0018]
The holding part 2 includes a pair of receiving parts 2a and 2b that are respectively arranged at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the base 1. The receiving portion 2a is basically composed of a substantially conical cone and a coil spring that biases the cone in the direction of the receiving portion 2b. The receiving part 2a has the cone head directed toward the other receiving part 2b, and holds one end of the housing R in a state where one end of the housing R is inserted. The receiving portion 2a is provided with locking means that can slide in the longitudinal direction and can be fixed at an arbitrary position. The receiving portion 2a is rotatable in the circumferential direction. As will be described later, this is because the housing R rotates in accordance with the circumferential rotation.
[0019]
As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the other receiving portion 2 b includes a cylindrical main body 10, a conical cone 11 accommodated in the main body 10, and a cone 11 accommodated in the main body 10. It is basically composed of a coil spring 12 that urges the receiving portion 2a in the direction of the receiving portion 2a (the housing R side). The main body 10 has a bar 10a formed in the diameter direction at an opening on one end side. The bar 10a is flush with the opening end surface on one end side of the main body portion 10, and becomes a portion with which the other end of the housing R abuts. In the housing R that is biased toward the receiving portion 2b as a whole by the receiving portion 2a, the end face on the other end side of the housing R is pressed against the bar 10a regardless of the diameter of the other end.
[0020]
The cone 11 faces the conical head end toward the receiving portion 2a. A split that can mesh with the bar 10a is formed from the top end of the cone to a position that does not reach the bottom surface. The cone 11 is housed in the main body 10 with the bar 10a being inserted in this ratio.
In this example, the cone is split only in one diametrical direction, but as shown in FIG. 6, two bars are perpendicular to each other in the diametrical direction to the circle of the opening of the main body. It is of course possible to form 10a and use a quadrant of cone 11. When the quadrant cone 11 is used, the cone 11 is guided by the two orthogonal bars 10a, so that the stability of the cone 11 is improved. It also contributes to the stability of the end face of the housing R that contacts the bar 10a.
[0021]
The coil spring 12 is accommodated in the main body 10 adjacent to the bottom surface side of the cone 11. The cone 11 is biased toward the head end side (that is, the receiving portion 2 a side), and the cone 11 is movable in the axial direction of the main body portion 10.
In the receiving portion 2b, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, when the housing R is pushed toward the main body 10 with the other end of the housing R being inserted into the head end of the cone 11, the cone 11 is It is pushed into the main body 10 against the coil spring 12. The other end of the housing R is in contact with the bar 10a, and the bar 10a, that is, the opening end surface of the main body 10 is always set as the reference position (origin). Then, the cone 11 is urged by the coil spring 12 with the other end of the casing R taking the origin, and the casing R is held (see FIG. 3B).
[0022]
The holding portion 2 holds the housing R in a stable state by sandwiching the housing R between the pair of receiving portions 2a and 2b. In addition, you may provide the receiving roller 20 which receives and supports the housing | casing R between this pair of receiving part 2a, 2b in several places at intervals in one place or an axial direction. The receiving roller 20 is placed on a cylinder that changes the position of the roller in the up-down direction (in contact with and away from the housing R) so as to change the position of the roller according to the diameter of the housing R. The receiving roller 20 is preferably freely movable in the longitudinal direction on the pedestal 1 because some of the casings R held by the holding unit 2 have various lengths in the axial direction. By disposing the receiving roller 20 as described above, it is possible to hold the housing R, which is a tubular body having a different diameter in the axial direction to which the taper is tapered, in the holding portion 2 in a stable state.
[0023]
The rotation mechanism 3 is for rotating the housing R in the circumferential direction. The one receiving portion 2b and a motor M (see FIG. 1 and the like) that rotationally drives the receiving portion 2b. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the one receiving portion 2b of the holding portion 2 has a rotating shaft or a motor M sequentially connected to the main body portion 10, and the driving force of the motor M receives the receiving portion 2b. Is transmitted to. The rotational speed of the motor can be arbitrarily adjusted.
[0024]
The rail portion 4 is composed of a pair of parallel rails arranged on the upper surface of the base 1 in parallel with the housing R. A paint spraying portion 5 described later meshes with the pair of rails, and slides along the longitudinal direction of the rail portion 4. An axial positioning actuator is disposed between the pair of rail portions, and the axial direction of the paint spraying portion 5 is determined by this actuator.
[0025]
As shown in detail in FIG. 8, the coating material spraying portion 5 rotates on the base 31 that is engaged with and mounted on the rail portion 4, and on the surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rail portion 4 on the base 31. The movable part 32 is connected to the movable part 32, the paint tank 33 is connected to the movable part 32, and the metal nozzle pipe 34 ejects the paint supplied from the paint tank 33. A coil spring 35 is connected between the base 31 and the movable part 32.
[0026]
The base 31 is a portion that is connected to the actuator and slides on the rail portion 4 in the longitudinal direction. By previously inputting the axial position of the base 31 to the coating material jetting unit 5 to the control unit of the actuator, the coating material jetting unit 5 is aligned with an arbitrary axial position.
The movable part 32 is connected to the base 31 via a rotary shaft extending in the longitudinal direction of the rail part 4 of the base 31 and rotates in a direction perpendicular to the rail part 4. The base 31 and the movable part 32 are connected by a coil spring 35, and the movable part 32 is urged in a direction in which the coil spring 35 is drawn toward the base 31 side. On the side symmetric with respect to the coil spring 35 and the rotation axis, a metal nozzle pipe 34 is disposed on the movable portion 32, and the metal nozzle pipe 34 is basically biased in the X direction (see FIG. 8). .
[0027]
The metal nozzle pipe 34 is a nozzle pipe having an inner diameter of about 0.15 to 0.90 mm and an outer diameter of about 0.40 to 1.30 mm, and a certain degree of flexibility is recognized. A predetermined paint is ejected from the end of the head while abutting on the peripheral surface of the housing R. The metal nozzle pipe 34 communicates with the paint tank 33, and the paint in the paint tank 33 is supplied. The paint tank 33 is connected to an air tank (not shown), and a required amount of paint is supplied from the paint tank 33 to the metal nozzle pipe 34 according to the amount of air supplied from the air tank, and the paint is ejected from the head end. Is done. The metal nozzle pipe 34 is further independently supplied with air from the air tank, and the amount of paint spray can be finely adjusted by the amount of air supplied independently. The coating pressure at this time is required to be arbitrarily adjusted depending on the temperature, humidity, viscosity of the coating, the diameter of the housing R, etc., but is set to about 0.3 to 0.8 Mpa, for example.
[0028]
The lifting mechanism 6 is a mechanism for rotating the movable portion 32 (see FIG. 2). Specifically, it comprises a lifting bar 6a extending in the longitudinal direction on the pedestal 1 below the movable portion 32 and a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder 6b for moving the lifting bar 6a in the vertical direction. As shown in FIG. 8, a lifting bar 32 a extends downward from the movable portion 32. The lifting bar 32a is on a side symmetric with respect to the coil spring 35 and the rotation axis of the movable part 32. When the lifting bar 6a is lifted upward (Y direction in FIG. 8), the lifting bar 6a hits the lifting bar 32a to push it up, and the movable part 32 is rotated in a direction opposite to the coil spring 35. The metal nozzle pipe 34 is separated from the housing R by the rotation of the movable portion 32.
[0029]
As a modified example of this embodiment, it is naturally possible to set the biasing direction of the coil spring 35 in the reverse direction and the operation of the lifting mechanism 6 in the reverse direction.
Next, the procedure of step coating on the housing R by this coating machine will be described.
The frame R to which step coating is applied by this coating machine is a frame R constituting a spatula rod used for fishing for herbuna as shown in FIG. 9, for example. The casing R constituting the spatula is obtained by firing a prepreg material obtained by impregnating a reinforcing resin such as carbon fiber or glass fiber with a synthetic resin. The frame R is formed or painted with bamboo knot shapes and patterns so that the outer diameter resembles that of natural bamboo. Furthermore, step coating is applied to an arbitrary place on the peripheral surface of such a housing R with an interval in the axial direction (see P portion in FIG. 9 and further FIG. 10). In this step-coating, the coating is applied thickly so that the peripheral surface of the housing R is partially formed into a stepped ring shape. In detail, usually, after applying necessary base coating or general peripheral coating to the peripheral surface of the housing R, step coating is performed on the peripheral coating.
[0030]
A specific procedure will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the housing R to which the step coating is applied is held by the holding unit 2. Specifically, the pair of receiving portions 2a and receiving portions 2b sandwich the both ends of the housing R and hold the housing R. The receiving portion 2a is adjusted to an arbitrary axial position according to the axial length of the housing R. As described above, the receiving portion 2b determines the axial position of the housing R with the opening surface of the main body 10 as the origin (zero point) regardless of the diameter of the housing R.
[0031]
In general, step coating is applied to a plurality of axial positions of the housing R. For this reason, a plurality of axial positions where step coating is performed are input to the control unit of the actuator as axial directions from the origin (zero point) (S1). At this time, the painting width when performing individual step coating is also input. After the input, the paint spraying part 5 starts automatically by the actuator and moves on the rail part 4 (S2). During the movement in the axial direction, the metal nozzle pipe 34 of the paint spraying portion 5 is separated from the housing R by the lifting mechanism 6.
[0032]
When the paint jetting part 5 reaches the input axial position, the cylinder 6b of the lifting mechanism 6 is lowered and the lifting bar 6a is also lowered, and the metal nozzle pipe 34 of the paint jetting part 5 is placed on the peripheral surface of the housing R. Abut (S4). Then, the paint tank 33 supplies the paint to the metal nozzle pipe 34 according to the air supply amount from the air tank, and the metal nozzle pipe 34 starts to paint (S5). The housing R is rotated by the rotating mechanism 3, and the metal nozzle pipe 34 is roughened while the abutting surface R is in contact with the housing R, and the paint is placed (applied) on the circumferential surface. Even if undercoating is already applied to the peripheral surface of the housing R, the metal nozzle pipe 34 applies the paint while roughening the peripheral surface of the housing R, so that the paint is likely to be placed on the peripheral surface of the housing R. . In this way, the metal nozzle pipe 34 moves in the axial direction while being in contact with the housing R (S6), and the paint is applied to the peripheral surface of the housing R with a certain width (see FIG. 11).
[0033]
It is preferable to use a paint obtained by mixing two epoxy resin paint and urethane resin paint in advance. By using such a two-component mixed paint, the paint can be applied on the housing R relatively thickly. The contact angle of the metal nozzle pipe 34 with respect to the housing R is set to about 0 to 70 degrees with respect to the tangential direction of the periphery of the housing. Preferably, it is set to about 30 to 60 degrees. The number of rotations of the housing R should be arbitrarily adjusted in relation to the amount of paint sprayed, etc., but is about 50 to 1000 rpm, preferably about 200 to 500 rpm.
[0034]
The metal nozzle pipe 34 that has moved by the axial width necessary for the step coating finishes the coating of the paint (S7). Then, the lifting mechanism 6 separates the metal nozzle pipe 34 of the paint jetting part 5 from the peripheral surface of the housing R. Further, in the case where step coating is performed at the axial position of another housing R, the actuator control unit confirms the next coating start position (S8), and the paint spraying unit 5 is moved to the coating start position ( S3). When all the painting at the planned painting position is completed, the work is finished. Further, in order to thicken the step coating, the step coating may be once applied to the housing R, the coating is dried, and then the step coating may be repeated at the same location.
[0035]
In this embodiment, the casing R, particularly the casing constituting the spatula cage, is used as the tubular body. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to various other tubular bodies. It is.
[0036]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the coating machine of the present invention, “step coating” can be performed on the peripheral surface of the housing simply and quickly. Even those who do not have skilled skills can easily perform step coating.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a top view of a coating machine adopting an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a front view of a coating machine that employs an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view showing one receiving portion 2b of the holding portion 2. FIG.
4 is a front view of the receiving portion 2b of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a reference view of the receiving portion 2b of FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 is a view showing a modified example of the receiving portion 2b.
FIG. 7 is a view showing the vicinity of a receiving portion 2b.
FIG. 8 is a view showing a paint ejection part 5;
FIG. 9 is a view showing a housing R. FIG.
10 is an enlarged view of a step coating portion P of the casing R in FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a state of step coating.
FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the operation of the coating machine of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Base body 2 Holding part 3 Rotating mechanism 4 Rail part 5 Paint spraying part 6 Lifting mechanism

Claims (4)

A coating machine for coating the peripheral surface of a tubular body,
A holding portion for holding the tubular body in a horizontal direction;
A rotating means for rotating the tubular body held by the holding portion in the circumferential direction;
A rail portion arranged in parallel with the holding portion;
A paint spraying part that is movable in the length direction of the rail on the rail part;
The paint spraying portion includes a paint tank and a nozzle pipe for ejecting paint from the paint tank, the contact state in which the nozzle pipe comes into contact with the tubular body peripheral surface, and the nozzle pipe is in the tubular body peripheral surface Dispensing machine that displaces to a separated state. The paint spraying part includes a base body placed on the rail part, a movable part rotatably connected to the base body in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the rail part, and the movable part An urging means for urging the tubular body in the direction of the tubular body and a cylinder for pushing the rotating portion in a direction opposite to the urging means,
The paint machine according to claim 1, wherein a paint supply means for supplying paint from the nozzle pipe and the paint tank to the metal nozzle pipe is disposed on the movable part. The paint machine according to claim 2, further comprising positioning means for changing and positioning the position of the paint ejection part on the rail part. The holding portion includes a contact portion that contacts one end of the tubular body, a moving contact portion that is movable in the horizontal direction and urges and holds the other end of the tubular body in the one end direction; The paint machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a receiving roller portion that is disposed so as to be able to come into contact with and separate from the tubular body between the contact portion and the moving contact portion.

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