JP2707220B2 - Probe storage - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a probe storage device provided in a probe supply device which is immersed in a molten metal for examining the state of molten metal (hot metal, molten steel, etc.) in a furnace at a steelmaking steelmaking site, for example. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, at a steelmaking site, a measuring means or a sampling means called a probe which is appropriately immersed in molten metal is used to measure the temperature, composition, etc. of molten iron or molten steel in a furnace. . Probes of this type are generally long, round pipes or rods, and need to be handled carefully so as not to give an impact to them, so they are usually arranged in a standing position. It is mounted on a predetermined holder as necessary and immersed in the molten metal.

[0003] By the way, not only a large number of probes are used for measuring the temperature and components of the molten metal at the steelmaking site as described above, but also a plurality of types of probes having different types and uses are required.

Therefore, in order to take out such a large number of probes as needed and supply them to the holder at any time, racks, magazines, and the like that can be used to stand the many probes without damaging them have been used. .

[0005]

However, in conventional racks and magazines as described above, it is necessary to set probes one by one at their predetermined positions, so that it takes time to replenish them, and many probes are required. Since they are arranged vertically, there is a problem that a relatively large space is required.

Further, since these racks and magazines are fixedly installed at predetermined positions, when the probes in the racks or magazines become empty in response to the supply of the probes, the racks or the magazines filled with the probes may be used. There is also a problem that it is not possible to immediately exchange the entire magazine, which hinders the continuous supply of probes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention addresses the above-mentioned problems, and a new probe can be replenished very easily by making the storage portion of the probe a simple storage. It is an object of the present invention to provide a probe storage that can store a large number of probes in a space smaller than that of the probe storage and can quickly replace the storage when the storage becomes empty.

[0008]

To achieve the above object, a probe storage according to the present invention is characterized in that it is constructed as follows. That is, a probe storage that discharges probes one by one from each stage while storing a large number of probes immersed in the melt in order to check the state of the melt, and is inclined downward toward the front surface and A plurality of probe housing shelves provided at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction,
A side plate that supports both ends of the probe housing shelf, a slide rail attached to the outer surfaces of both ends of the side plate, and a probe housing.
Hooks for storage hanging, a gate plate provided on the front side of the probe storage shelf, and supported on a side plate so as to be slidable in the vertical direction relative to each probe storage shelf; Ri Do from the striker and attached to the position,
Crane the entire probe housing through each of the above hooks
Etc. and can be moved from other places, and
While holding the striker on the gate
Raise and lower the entire probe storage and move it from each probe storage shelf.
Predetermined position of the lifting device that allows the probe to be taken out
It is configured to be able to be detachably mounted on the device.

[0009]

According to the above arrangement, a plurality of probe storages can be stored.
Having a probe at each location
By filling the lobe and waiting, the lifting device
There is no probe in the probe storage that is mounted and used
If this happens, the empty probe storage
And the probe storage filled with the probe described above.
In other words, supply the probe supply work without any time loss
Can be.

Further, since it is possible to keep housed in a state of lying probes predetermined number respectively next to each probe shelf plurality of stages provided in the probe repository, make a probe as in the prior art More probes can be accommodated in a small plane space as compared with the case where they are arranged side by side. In this case, since each probe accommodating shelf is inclined downward toward the front surface, the probes accommodated therein tend to move or roll toward the front surface, but the gate plate is disposed on the front surface. Is provided to close the front so that the probe remains in the probe storage shelf.

The striker provided at a predetermined position on the gate plate is engaged with, for example, a bracket provided on the support leg, and the sliding of the gate plate in the vertical direction is stopped at the predetermined position. By gradually sliding the whole in the vertical direction, the probe storage shelf sealed at the upper end or lower end of the gate plate is opened, and the probe is discharged to the outside from the front surface side of the storage shelf.

Therefore, according to the probe storage constructed as described above, a plurality of stages of probe storage shelves in the storage can be obtained simply by raising or lowering the storage relative to the gate plate by a predetermined pitch. The probes stored in the respective stages are sequentially supplied to predetermined external locations.

When all the probes are discharged in this way and the probe housing portion in the housing becomes empty, the empty housing is simply replaced with a new housing prepared separately. Therefore, the exchange operation of the storage can be quickly performed. In addition, it is necessary to set a probe in advance in a new storage. In this case, when the gate plate is closed and the probes are sequentially placed side by side into the respective probe storage units from the rear side of the storage, the Since the probe moves or rolls to the front side along the inclined surface of the storage shelf, the probe can be easily set in a predetermined state on each probe storage shelf.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment in which a probe storage according to the present invention is used by being attached to a probe supply device will be described with reference to FIGS.
A description will be given based on FIG. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a probe supply device 1 supports a probe storage (hereinafter referred to as a storage) 2 according to the present invention, and supports the storage 2 so as to be able to move up and down. The storage device 2 includes a lifting device 3 for lifting and lowering the storage 2.

As shown in FIG. 1, the probe housing 2 includes a pair of opposed side plates 21 and slide rails 22 attached to the front and rear of the side plates 21, respectively. A front gate plate 23 which fits in a narrow groove formed on the upper and lower sides of the pair of slide rails 22 on the front and rear sides and is slidably mounted to form the front and rear surfaces of the storage 2; A rectangular case is formed with the rear gate plate 24, and a plurality of storage shelves 25... 25 are inclined in the case downward toward the front surface and are arranged in parallel at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. It is a configuration provided. A plurality of probes P... P can be accommodated in the shelves 25.

The front gate plate 23 has L-shaped strikers 23a, 23 at predetermined heights on both side edges thereof.
a is provided. And these strikers 23
a, 23a are connected to support legs 31, 31 (see FIG. 4) which will be described later.
When the storage 2 is lowered by a predetermined stroke in a state where the front gate plate 23 is moved downward by being in contact with the brackets 34, 34, the front sides thereof are sequentially moved upward from the lower storage shelf 25. At the same time, the probe P on the storage shelf 25 is rolled from the opened front side and discharged forward (see FIG. 5).

In this case, the bracket 34 is provided with an optical sensor 26 for detecting whether or not the probe P is ejected forward from the storage shelf 25. Further, hooks 22a are provided on the upper portions of the slide rails 22, respectively.
Can be set on the elevating device 3 while hanging the storage 2 by hooking a wire (not shown) to the storage device 2.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, a lifting device 3 for raising and lowering the storage 2 has a pair of support legs 31, 31 which are arranged facing each other at a predetermined interval, and
Lift table 3 provided to be able to move up and down between 1 and 31
Consists of two.

A plurality of guide rollers 33... 33 for guiding the lift table are provided on both sides of the support legs 31, 31 on opposite sides thereof, respectively. A pair of left and right brackets 34 (only one is shown in the figure) is mounted at a predetermined height position on the front side to stop the gate plate 23 at a predetermined position.

The lift table 32 is shown in FIGS.
As shown in the figure, the mounting member 35 is formed by assembling members having a square cross section in an H shape in plan view, and storage bar guide bars 36.
An L-shaped arm 37 having one end of the electric cylinder 4 connected to the upper end is attached to the center of the mounting portion 35. Then, by driving the electric cylinder 4 to expand and contract the piston rod 4a, the guide roller 33
The lift table 32 is moved up and down along the support legs 31 with the guide bars 36...

In this case, a tapered surface 36a is formed at the upper end of each guide bar 36, and the slide rails 22 located at the four corners of the storage when the storage 2 is lowered from above the lift table 32. ..22 when the lower end of the abutment comes into contact with the tapered surface 36a, and when the storage 2 is further lowered from the abutment state, the slide rails 22... And is finally set to the state shown by the chain line in FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, a first stopper 5 and a second stopper 6 are provided in front of the lifting device 3.
And a clamping device 7 are arranged.

The first and second stoppers 5 and 6
Are rotatable together with the pivot shafts 5a and 6a, and are turned by the respective air cylinders (not shown) around the pivot shafts 5a and 6a, so that the probe P is blocked. The position of the solid line in FIG. 5 and the position of the chain line in FIG. When the probe P in the storage 2 moves to the clamp device 7 through the inclined path 8 provided between the lifting position 3 and the clamp device 7, the probe P is moved to a predetermined position on the path 8. And, if necessary, the pivot 5
The probe P is rotated around a and 6a by a predetermined amount to release the inhibition of the probe P. That is, the probe P blocked by the stopper 6 is released from the stopper 6 while the probe P above the probe P is blocked by the stopper 5, so that the probes P are supplied one by one to the clamp device 7. ing.

The probe is rolled by bringing the stopper 6 into the blocking state as shown by the solid line and the stopper 5 into the open state as shown by the broken line, and is received by the stopper 6. Thereafter, the stopper 5 prevents the next probe from rolling as indicated by the solid line. Thus, the opening of the next stopper 6 is waited.

Here, the first stopper pivot shaft 5a and the second stopper pivot shaft 6a are supported by frames 9 and 10 erected in front of the elevating device 3, respectively. Are rotated by a first stopper opening / closing cylinder and a second stopper opening / closing cylinder (not shown) respectively attached to both outer side surfaces of the first member.

The clamping device 7 has a rotating arm 72 rotatable around the pivot 71 and provided with a probe receiving portion 72a at an upper end thereof. The air cylinder 73 is attached, and a clamp member 74 is rotatably provided at the tip of a piston rod 73a protruding from the cylinder 73. Then, with the probe P held between the receiving portion 72a and the clamp member 74, the entire arm 72 is moved by a predetermined amount around the pivot shaft 71 by a separately provided rotating air cylinder (not shown). It is designed to be turned.

Next, the operation will be described. Before setting the storage 2 in the elevating device 3, the empty storage 2 is set in advance.
Is filled with the probe P, in which case the storage 2
, The front gate plate 23 is closed, and the rear gate plate 24 is pulled upward to open the rear side of the storage 2.
Then, from the open portion, each of the storage shelves 25 in the storage 2
Put probe P sideways into 25. At this time,
25 are inclined forward and the front side thereof is closed by the front gate plate 23. When the probes P are inserted as described above, the probes P naturally move forward. It will roll and will be densely filled on each accommodation shelf 25.

Therefore, as compared with the conventional case where probes are arranged upright at a predetermined position, more probes can be accommodated in a small plane space, and the accommodating operation can be performed extremely easily. Since this storing operation can be performed at the probe manufacturing factory, it is not necessary to perform the storing at the steel making site, and it is only necessary to set the storing box on the elevating device.

After the probe P is filled in the storage 2 in this way, the rear gate plate 24 is set as before and the rear surface of the storage 2 is closed, and in this state, for example, a crane or the like is used. The storage 2 is suspended and set in a predetermined state on the lift table 32 of the lifting device 3 (see FIGS. 2 and 4).

After the storage 2 is set on the lift table 32, the lift cylinder 32 is moved by the electric cylinder 4.
Is lowered, the storage 2 is lowered only at a predetermined pitch. In this case, the striker 23a attached to the front gate plate in the storage 2 first comes into contact with the brackets 34 of the support legs 31, 31 at a predetermined height position, and is prevented from moving downward. When the storage 2 is further lowered from this state by a predetermined stroke in accordance with the pitch of the storage shelf 25, the height position of the storage 2 becomes relatively lower with respect to the front gate plate 23 and the lowermost order The front side of the storage shelf 2 is opened.

As a result, the probe P on the storage shelf 25 rolls forward and is discharged from the open front side to the outside. The probe P discharged from the storage 2 in this manner
Is stopped at a predetermined position on the path 8 by the first and second stoppers 5 and 6 as shown in FIG. 5 and supplied to the clamping device 7 one by one as necessary, and Is supplied to a predetermined position.

When the optical sensor 26 detects that the probe is not ejected, the lift table is further lowered by the electric cylinder 4 by a predetermined pitch. At the same time, the storage 2 is lowered by one stage while the front gate plate 23 is kept as it is, and the probe stored in the next stage rolls to the stopper 5 and stops.

Therefore, according to the probe supply device 1 described above, only by lowering the storage 2 at a predetermined pitch with respect to the front gate plate 23, the probe P stored on each storage shelf 25 in the storage 2 can be moved. It can be supplied to a predetermined external location in order from the lower side.

When all the probes P... P in the storage 2 have been discharged and the storage 2 has been emptied, a new storage having the empty storage 2 prepared separately is prepared. Since it is only necessary to exchange the entire storage, the operation of replacing the storage can be performed quickly.

[0035]

As described above, according to the probe storage of the present invention, the probe can be easily and quickly taken out of the storage when used. Further, when the probe is exhausted in the storage, the refilling operation of the probe can be completed only by replacing the empty storage with a new storage together with the storage.

In order to replenish the probes in the empty storage, it is only necessary to put the probes side by side from the rear surface side in each probe accommodating portion. The probe can be set much more easily than.

In addition, since the storage is separate from the supply device for replenishment of the probe, if the storage is transported to the probe manufacturing factory, the probe can be stored in the storage at the factory, and the steelmaking factory ( Work on site) can be simplified.

Further, by simply stopping the front gate plate at a predetermined position and sliding the probe storage vertically, the probes filled in the probe storage shelf can be easily and reliably discharged from the storage shelf, and a simple configuration. The probe can be supplied smoothly. Further, since the configuration for discharging the probe from the storage shelf is simple, a failure relating to the discharging mechanism can be minimized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing a storage according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a probe supply device equipped with a probe storage according to the present invention.

3 is a partially omitted rear view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged perspective view showing only an elevating device in the probe supply device.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged side view showing a usage state of a probe supply device equipped with a probe storage according to the present invention, with a part cut away.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Probe storage 21 Side plate 22 Slide rail 23 Gate plate (front gate plate) 23a striker 25 Probe storage shelf

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A probe storage for storing a plurality of probes immersed in the molten metal in order to check the state of the molten metal and discharging the probes one by one from each stage, wherein the probe is downwardly directed toward a front surface. A plurality of probe housing shelves provided at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction at an angle, a side plate supporting both ends of the probe housing shelves, a slide rail attached to both outer surfaces of the side plate, and a probe housing hanger. Lowering
Hook, and provided on the front side of the probe storage shelf,
A gate plate that is supported by the relatively vertically slidably side plates for each probe shelves, Ri Do and a striker attached to a predetermined position of the gate plate, each off the
Hang the entire probe housing with a crane, etc.
Can be moved from other places, and the gate plate
While holding the striker, collect probes other than the gate plate.
Raise and lower the entire storage and remove probes from each probe storage shelf.
The lifting device, which can be taken out, is attached to and detached from the specified position.
A probe storage having a configuration in which the probe can be freely mounted .