JP3073986U - Clay material cutting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clay material capable of easily and efficiently producing a clay plate having a desired thickness by attaching a cutter wire mounting member capable of adjusting a vertical height to a sliding plate. A cutting device is provided. SOLUTION: A sliding plate 2 is mounted on a base 1 via a sliding member so as to be slidable in the front-rear direction with respect to the base 1. Column members 10 are planted on both left and right sides of the sliding plate 2, and a ceiling plate 18 is mounted on the pillar members 10 via the block members 6 to form the frame 3. The cutter wire attachment members 5 are respectively attached to the left and right pillar members 10 so as to be vertically movable. The clay plate placed on the material placing table 4 placed on the support 11 of the base 1 is cut out of the clay block by manually moving the sliding plate 2 in the front-rear direction. Second and subsequent cutter wire attachment members 5
Is reduced by a predetermined size, and the same operation is repeated to cut out a clay plate.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a clay material cutting device, and more particularly to a cutting device for slicing a mass of clay material used for pottery to produce a large number of clay plates having a constant thickness.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 In traditional ceramic art, the method of making a clay plate from a clay mass is called "tatara making". A piano with a certain thickness of wooden board (tatara plate) stacked on both sides of the clay mass and stretched along the top surface. Hold the wire in both hands, pull it toward you, slice the top surface of the clay mass with this piano wire, and perform this operation sequentially while reducing the number of left and right slabs. Was making a clay plate.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 Since the above method using a tatara board is a manual operation, it requires skill, and it is difficult for a beginner to make a clay plate having an even thickness and an even surface. Further, the thickness of the clay plate is usually 5 to 6 steps between 3 mm and 15 mm, and there is a drawback that dozens of tatara plates must be prepared in advance in order to accommodate all of them.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The purpose of the present invention is to easily and efficiently manufacture a clay plate of a desired thickness by attaching a cutter wire mounting member capable of adjusting the height in the vertical direction to a sliding plate provided in the front and rear direction. It is intended to provide a clay material cutting device which can be used.

That is, the clay material cutting device of the present invention includes a base, a sliding plate supported on the base via a sliding member and slidably provided in the front-rear direction with respect to the base. An arched frame including a pair of left and right column members disposed on the sliding plate in opposition, and each of the pair of column members is slidable vertically and fixed at a desired position. A pair of left and right cutter wire attachment members, a cutter wire made of a metallic material stretched in tension between the pair of cutter wire attachment members, and a pair of cutter wire attachment members in parallel with the sliding plate. A material mounting table is provided, which is immovably mounted on the base so as to be located above the sliding plate.

[0006] The arch-shaped frame is constructed by attaching a ceiling plate to the upper end of a column member composed of one or more poles disposed on the sliding plate so as to face left and right via a block member. Then, the pole is loosely inserted into a through hole provided in the cutter wire mounting member, and the cutter wire mounting member is slidable up and down. A known mechanism such as a screw-type lift mechanism or a belt-type lift mechanism can be used to raise and lower the cutter wire mounting member and to fix it at a specific position.

The sliding member is formed of a band-shaped member having a surface lubricating property, and one of the substrate and the sliding member is arranged to prevent the sliding plate from moving in the vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the substrate. Or installed on both. Metallic rails, fluororesin-processed tapes, and the like are used as the surface-lubricating belt-shaped members. In particular, a combination of an aluminum plate rail and an adhesive tape processed with a surface fluororesin is preferable in terms of processing and slidability.

[0008] A scale for displaying the cut thickness of the clay material is provided on the cutter wire mounting member. Usually, five types of clay plates, 3 mm, 5 mm, 7 mm, 10 mm, and 15 mm, are used. Therefore, for example, five types of scales corresponding to the thickness are prepared and exchanged according to each thickness. For this purpose, a box for inserting the scale is provided on the cutter wire mounting member.

[0009]

【Example】

 FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the clay material cutting device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view, and FIG. 3 is a side view of a column member. In the figure, 1 is a base, 2 is a sliding plate, 3 is a frame, 4 is a material mounting table, 5 is a cutter wire mounting member, 6 is a block member, 7 is a pole, and 8 is a cutter made of a metal wire such as a piano wire. The line 9 is a sliding member.

The base 1 is made of a rectangular plate, and has four legs 12 below and four support stands 11 on the upper surface. The material placing table 4 on which the clay is placed is placed on the support 11. A sheet made of a soft material such as felt is preferably stuck on the upper surface of the support base 11 in order to improve the seating of the material mounting base 4. The sliding plate 2 is arranged in a gap between the base 1 and the material placing table 4.

A sliding leg 14 and a U-shaped locking piece 15 are attached to the lower surface of the sliding plate 2 at two places on the left and right. The base 1 is inserted into the concave space formed by the left and right locking pieces 15 and the sliding legs 14 to complete the engagement between the base 1 and the sliding plate 2. According to this configuration, the sliding plate 2 can be slid in the front-back direction with respect to the base 1. In order to smoothly perform the sliding, a sliding member 9 is interposed at a contact portion between the base 1 and the sliding plate 2. Reference numeral 38 denotes a handle for holding the slide plate 2 with both hands and moving the slide plate 2 in the front-rear direction.

In this example, the sliding member 9 is provided with two aluminum rails 13 on the surface of the base 1 in the front-rear direction. On the other hand, an adhesive tape 16 made of fluororesin is adhered to the lower surface of the sliding leg 14 of the sliding plate 2 facing the rail 13. A rail 17 made of aluminum and an adhesive tape 16 made of fluororesin are also adhered between the inner surface of the locking piece 15 and the side surface of the base 1. Between the lower surface of the base 1 and the lower inner surface of the locking piece 15, only the fluororesin-processed adhesive tape 16 is stuck on the base 1 side (of course, a rail may be provided on the opposite surface). According to this configuration, since the base 1 and the sliding plate 2 are surrounded so as not to move up, down, left and right, there is no blurring when the sliding plate 2 moves in the front-back direction.

The frame 3 is formed in an arch shape by attaching a ceiling plate 18 via a block member 6 to an upper end of a column member 10 disposed on the left and right sides of the sliding plate 2. As shown in FIG. 3, each column member 10 includes two poles 7, 7 fixed to the sliding plate 2 by nuts 29, 31, respectively, and a block member 6 for connecting the poles to the ceiling plate 18. It is constituted by. The upper ends of the pawls 7 and 7 and the block member 6 are fixed by a nut 28 and a cap nut 27.

The cutter wire mounting member 5 has three through holes 34, 34, 35. The through holes 34 are for passing the pole 7. The through hole 35 is for passing the guide bolt 21 having a thread groove as a lift mechanism for moving the cutter wire mounting member 5 up and down. The bush 26 is fitted in the through hole 34 in order to smoothly slide the pawl 7 and the through hole 34.

As shown in FIG. 4, a bush 25 is mounted on the guide bolt 21 inserted into the through hole 35 of the cutter wire mounting member 5. The bush 25 is fixed to the guide bolt 21 with the top and bottom of the bush 25 sandwiched between nuts 23 and 24. There is a slight gap between the through hole 35 and the surface of the bush 25 so that the guide bolt 21 can idle with respect to the cutter wire mounting member 5. In addition, 22 is a washer.

A screw nut 37 is fitted in a through hole 36 provided at the center of the block member 6, and is screwed with the guide bolt 21. A handle 33 is attached to the tip of the guide bolt 21. When the handle 33 is rotated, the guide bolt 21 rotates, meshes with the screw nut 37, and moves the guide bolt 21 itself up and down. Then, the cutter wire mounting member 5 is moved up and down. In addition, 32 is a cap nut.

As shown in FIGS. 3, 5, and 6, a cutter wire mounting box 41 is fixed below the cutter wire mounting member 5. A rectangular through hole 51 is opened in the side surface of the box 41, and a square bolt 42 for tightening the cutter wire is loosely inserted therein. A thumb screw 43 is screwed into the tip of the tension bolt 42 via a washer 44.

At the other end of the bolt 42, a locking member 47 for mounting the cutter wire 8 is mounted. The locking tool 47 has a hole in the center of one metal plate, a bolt 42 is inserted into the hole, and the two nuts 45 and 46 hold the hole. The other end of the locking member 47 is clamped and fixed together by a bolt 48 and a nut 49.

An engaging ring 52 is attached to the end of the cutter wire 8, and the hole 54 is attached to the end of the bolt 48 by attaching. At this time, if the locking ring 52 is inserted between the two metal plates of the locking tool 47, and is clamped and tightened by the bolts 48 and the nuts 49, the cutter wire is completely fixed without coming off.

As shown in FIG. 7, a tube 53 is connected to the locking ring 52 of the cutter wire 8, and the cutter wire 8 is passed through the tube 53. And crush the whole tube 53 to fix it. According to this fixing method, since the cutter wire 8 can be fixed without giving a strong stress, a cutting accident of the cutter wire can be prevented.

As shown in FIG. 6, the cutter wire mounting box 41 is configured so that the right and left side walls are narrow so that the width of the locking tool 47 is as large as possible. Is prevented from shaking in the front-back direction.

The scale 61 is attached to the side surface of the cutter wire attachment member 5 as shown in FIGS. A scale box 62 having a bottom is fixed to a side surface of the cutter wire mounting member 5. A scale holder 63 through which the scale 61 is inserted is attached to the side surface of the block member 6. The scale 61 is provided with a memory 64 for displaying the thickness of the clay to be sliced. The memory 64 is read in accordance with the pointer attached to the scale holder 63, for example, the upper end of the scale holder.

(How to Use) The sliding plate 2 is fitted into the base 1 in advance. A scale 61 having a thickness corresponding to a desired thickness of the clay is selected and inserted into the scale box 62. The material placing table 4 on which the clay mass Z is placed is placed on the support 11 of the base 1 and fixed. The handle 33 is rotated to move the left and right cutter line mounting members 5 up and down to set them at the initial position where the scale 61 can read them.

The thumb screw 43 is rotated to make the cutter wire 8 be tensioned so that an appropriate tension is applied to the cutter wire 8. When the above preparations are completed, the gripper 38 of the slide plate 2 is held with both hands, the slide plate 2 is pushed forward, and the first sheet is cut out by the cutter wire 8. The sliding plate 2 is pulled toward the user, and the cutter wire mounting member 5 is lowered by one step so that the memory 64 of the scale 61 becomes the memory one step lower. Thus, the clay is cut by lowering the cutter wire mounting member 5 one by one until the clay material is exhausted.

[0025]

[Effect of the invention]

 (1) In the clay material cutting device of the present invention, a cutter wire mounting member capable of adjusting the vertical height is mounted on a sliding plate, and the sliding plate can be manually slid in the front-rear direction with respect to the material mounting table. Therefore, a clay plate having a desired thickness can be easily and efficiently manufactured.

(2) In the clay material cutting device of the present invention, the sliding members composed of the band-shaped member having surface lubrication are mounted on the upper, lower, left and right sides of the contact surface between the substrate and the sliding plate. It is possible to manufacture a clay plate having an accurate thickness by preventing the movement of the clay plate.

(3) In the clay material cutting device of the present invention, a scale for displaying the thickness of the clay material cut is provided on the cutter wire mounting member, so that a clay plate having a desired thickness can be selectively formed. It can be manufactured and a clay plate having a certain thickness can be easily manufactured.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a clay material cutting device.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a column member.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a rotating shaft.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of a cutter wire mounting member.

FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a locking ring.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a scale part.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 base 2 sliding plate 3 frame 4 mounting table 5 cutter wire attaching member 6 block member 7 pole 8 cutter wire 9 sliding member

Claims (3)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A base, a slide plate supported on the base via a slide member and slidably provided in the front-rear direction with respect to the base, and disposed opposite to the slide plate. An arch-shaped frame including a pair of left and right pillar members, and a pair of left and right cutter wires attached to the pair of pillar members so as to be slidable in the vertical direction and fixed at desired positions. A member, a cutter wire made of a metal material stretched in tension between the pair of cutter wire mounting members, and the base so as to be positioned parallel to the slide plate and above the slide plate. And a material mounting table which is mounted in a stationary state. 2. The sliding member comprises a belt-shaped member having a surface lubricating property, and one of the substrate and the sliding member so as to prevent the sliding plate from moving in the vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the substrate. The clay material cutting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the clay material cutting apparatus is attached to both of them. 3. The clay material cutting device according to claim 1, wherein a scale for displaying a cutting thickness of the clay material is provided on the cutter wire attaching member.