JPH062304A - Positioning device for connection of rails - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify vertical and horizontal positioning and cutouts-matching work of rails, and to accelerate connecting rails regardless of the weight of rails by operating a positioning device which is set between the ends of a pair of rails. CONSTITUTION:An engaging portion 22 of the first side member 20 and an engaging portion 32 of the second side member 30 are made to engage rails 1 from the lower part of them. The flange portions 1 B of both of the rails 1 are transversely pressed with a transverse-pressing member 25 which is driven-by operation of a side-operating device 28, and the other sides of both rails are made to contact the second side member 30, and, thus, horizontal positioning is performed. The flange portions 1 B of both rails 1 are pressed downward with a vertical pressing member 15 which moves down by operation of an upper operating device 18, and the surfaces that face downwards are made to contact the integral engaging portions 22 and 32, and vertical positioning is, thus, performed. Then, both webs 1 A are connected with joint panels, etc.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rail connecting positioning device used for connecting monorails, for example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a monorail, for example, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 62-275851, there is provided a guide rail having a cross-sectional I shape in which flange portions are formed at both upper and lower ends of a web portion. The guide rail supports and guides the vehicle body for transportation through the traveling wheels and the steady-state rollers, and the side surface of the guide rail is provided with a current-carrying rail.

[0003] When constructing such a guide rail on the ceiling side or floor side, a plurality of guide rails are connected in a supplemental shape. In order to connect at that time, a plurality of bolt holes are formed at the end portions of the guide rails, and one of the pair of left and right connecting plates that can be freely arranged between the end portions of both guide rails is used. The connecting plate has a plurality of through holes that can be fitted in the bolt holes, and the other connecting plate has a plurality of screw holes that can be fitted in the bolt holes. The connection is carried out by screwing the bolts, which have passed from the matched through holes to the bolt holes, into the screw holes so that the webs of the two guide rails are sandwiched by the connecting plates.

[0004]

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional structure, since the weight of the guide rail is large,
Relative alignment work of both rails and hole matching work could not be easily performed, and therefore the rails could not be connected easily and quickly.

An object of the present invention is to provide a positioning device for rail connection, which enables easy and quick connection between rails.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a positioning device for rail connection according to the present invention arranges a pair of rails having a flange portion on at least an upper portion thereof in a straight line and then connects end portions thereof. A positioning device for rail connection used at the time, wherein a main body and an upper member that can be arranged above a flange portion are integrated with one side of the upper member and can be arranged on one side of the flange portion. The upper member includes a first side member and a second side member that is detachably attached to the other side of the upper member via a coupling tool and can be placed on the other side of the flange portion, and the upper member is an upper surface of the flange portion. A pressing member that can be brought into contact with and separated from each other, and an upper operation tool that is moved into contact with and separated from the first side member, and the first side member can be brought into contact with and separated from one side surface of the flange portion. And a side operation tool for moving them into and out of contact with each other. It is formed in the rail length direction engageable engaging portion from below against Le side.

[0007]

According to the structure of the present invention, the positioning device is set between the ends of both rails in a state where the pair of rails are linearly arranged to perform the connecting work. When performing this setting, the upper operation tool is retracted upwards so that the holding member can move vertically, and the side operation tool can be moved backwards so that the lateral pushing member can move horizontally. Further, the connecting tool is further loosened so that the second side member can come into contact with and separate from the upper member.

In this state, first, the positioning device is fitted on both rails from above. Since the second side member is separated from the upper member, this fitting can be performed without the engaging portions being caught by the flange portion. Next, the entire positioning device is moved to the other side, and the engaging portion of the first side member is engaged with the rail side from below. This engagement is
Since the pressing member can move up and down and the lateral pressing member can move left and right, it can be performed without any trouble.

Next, the connecting tool is operated to move the second side member closer to the upper member side, and then the second side member and the upper member are integrated. At the same time, the engaging portion of the second side member is engaged with the rail side from below, and the inner surface of the second side member is brought into contact with the other side surface of the flange portion.

Then, the side operation member is operated to move the lateral pushing member inward with respect to the first side member, whereby the flange portions of both rails are simultaneously pushed laterally, and the other side surfaces are shared by the common second member. The rails are strongly brought into contact with the inner surface of the side member, so that the rails are aligned in the left-right direction. Next, the upper operation tool is operated to lower the pressing member with respect to the upper member, thereby simultaneously pressing down the flange portions of both rails, and the downward facing surfaces of the rails are strongly abutted against the common engaging portion. Align the vertical direction of. The operations of the upper operation tool and the side operation tool may be performed in the reverse order, or may be alternately repeated.

After the vertical and horizontal positions are aligned in this way, the web portions of both rails are connected using a connecting plate or the like, but the alignment must be performed at that time. Therefore, the matching work of the through hole, the bolt hole, and the screw hole can be easily performed.

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The pair of rails 1 to be connected has flange portions 1B and 1C on the upper and lower portions of the web portion 1A which is in the vertical direction.
And thus the cross section is formed in an I shape. And, at least in the web portion 1A of the end portion to be connected,
Plural bolt holes 2 are formed in each of the length direction and the vertical direction. A member 3 for a power feeding device is arranged on the side surface of the web portion 1A.

A pair of left and right connecting plates 4A, 4B which can be arranged between the ends of the pair of front and rear guide rails 1 are prepared.
Here, a plurality of through-holes 5 which can freely fit into the bolt holes 2 are formed in one connecting plate 4A, and the other connecting plate 4A is also formed.
In B, a plurality of screw holes 6 which can freely match with the bolt holes 2 are formed. Then, a plurality of bolts 7 that can be inserted into the bolt holes 2 and the through holes 5 and screwed into the screw holes 6 are prepared. 8 is a washer.

Both rails 1 are arranged in a straight line and are connected in a state where their end faces are in contact with each other, and a positioning device 10 for that purpose is prepared. The body 11 of this positioning device 10
Is an upper member 12 which can be arranged above the upper flange portion 1B.
And the flange portion 1 integrated with one side of the upper member 12
A first side member 20 that can be arranged on one side of B and the upper member 12
Detachable to the other side via a connecting tool and the flange portion 1B
And a second side member 30 that can be arranged on the other side.

Here, the upper member 12 is a pair of front and rear rectangular plate members 13.
And a rod body 14 that connects these rectangular plate bodies 13 together. Then, by bending the strip into a U shape, the pressing member 15 formed of a pair of vertical piece portions 15a and horizontal piece portions 15b is formed.
The rectangular plate bodies 13 are fitted from below. At that time, the vertical plate portions 15a are located outside the front and rear surfaces of the rectangular plate body 13, and the bolts 17 passed through the vertical holes 16 formed in the vertical plate portions 15a are inserted into the rectangular plate body 13. The pressing member 15 can be fixed to the upper member 12 side by screwing it in the front-back direction.

Further, the pressing member 15 can be raised and lowered within the range of the elongated hole 16 with respect to the rectangular plate body 13 by loosening the bolt 17, and the vertical piece portion 15b is raised and lowered with respect to the upper surface A of the flange portion 1B. Can be contacted and separated. In this way, the horizontal piece 15b
In order to move the upper and lower sides of the rectangular plate bodies 13 together, a bolt type upper operation tool 18 is screwed from above into the central portions of both rectangular plate bodies 13. It can come into contact freely.

The side members 20 and 30 are formed of a long plate material having a U shape in a side view. Then, on the inner surfaces facing each other, upper engaging portions 21 and 31 which are engageable from above with the rectangular plate body 13 are integrally provided inward from the upper edge thereof, and from the lower edge to the inner side. The lower engagement portions 22 and 32 that are freely engageable from below are integrally connected to the downward surface D of the upper flange portion 1B.

The first side member 20 is left-right in a state where one side surface of both rectangular plate bodies 13 is in contact with the inner surface of the first side member 20 and the upper engaging portion 21 is engaged with the rectangular plate body 13 from above. It is integrated with the upper member 12 by screwing the bolts 23. Further, the first side member 20 is formed by bending the band plate into a U shape in a plan view, thereby forming a pair of bending piece parts 25a and the front and rear plate parts.
A lateral pushing member 25 formed of 25b is fitted to the first side member 20 from the inside.

At this time, the both bent pieces 25a are formed by the first side member.
By bolting the bolt 27, which is located on the outer side of the front and rear surface of 20 and passed through the long hole 26 in the left and right direction formed in both bent piece portions 25a, in the front and rear direction with respect to the first side member 20. The lateral pushing member 25 can be fixed to the first side member 20 side.

The lateral pushing member 25 can be moved left and right within the range of the elongated hole 26 with respect to the first side member 20 by loosening the bolt 27, and by the left and right movement, the front and rear plate portion 25b is moved to the flange portion 1.
The one side surface B of B can be freely contacted and separated. In order to move the front and rear plate portions 25b into and out of contact with each other in this manner, the first side member 20
A side operation tool 28 in the form of a bolt is screwed from the side to the front and rear ends of the side operation tool 28, and the inner end of the side operation tool 28 can come into contact with the outer surface of the front and rear plate 25b.

The second side member 30 has elongated holes 35 in the front-rear direction at positions facing the rectangular plate body 13, and these elongated holes 35 are formed with a large diameter portion 35a at the end on the same side. is doing.
Then, after passing through the elongated hole 35 from the outside, the upper member 12 is screwed into the left and right screw holes formed in the rectangular plate body 13.
Bolt type connector for connecting the second side member 30 to the
36 are provided. The connecting tool 36 has a large-diameter neck portion 36a on the outer side of the screw portion, and the large-diameter neck portion 36a is formed to be larger in diameter than the long hole 35 and smaller in diameter than the large-diameter portion 35a.

The operation of connecting the rail 1 in the above structure will be described below. The pair of rails 1 are linearly arranged with their end faces facing each other. Next, the positioning device 10 is set across the ends of both rails 1. When this setting is performed, the bolt 17 is loosened and the upper operation tool 18 is retracted upward, so that the pressing member is
15 is movable up and down.

Further, the bolt 27 is loosened and the side operation member 28 is retracted outwardly, so that the lateral pushing member 25 is movable in the left and right directions. Also the coupling 36
And the large diameter portion 35a faces the large diameter neck portion 36a, so that the second side member 30 can freely contact and separate from the upper member 12.

When performing the setting, first, the positioning device
The 10 is fitted to both rails 1 from above. Since the second side member 30 is separated from the upper member 12 as described above, this fitting can be performed without the lower engaging portions 22 and 32 being caught by the flange portion 1B. Next, the entire positioning device 10 is moved to the other side, and the lower engagement portion 22 of the first side member 20 is engaged with the lower surface D of the flange portion 1B. This engagement is performed without any trouble because the pressing member 15 is vertically movable and the lateral pressing member 25 is horizontally movable.

Then, the second side member 30 is moved closer to the upper member 12 side, the large diameter portion 35a is removed from the large diameter neck portion 36a to face the screw portion, and then the second side member 30 is moved in the front-rear direction. Then, the long hole 35 is positioned at the screw portion. As a result, the large diameter neck portion 36a is formed on the outer surface of the second side member 30 outside the elongated hole 35.
Can come into contact with each other.

Then, the connecting member 36 is tightened, and the inner side surface of the second side member 30 is brought into contact with the outer side surfaces of both rectangular plate bodies 13 by pushing through the large diameter neck portion 36a. Side member
30 and the upper member 12 are integrated. At the same time, the upper engaging portion 31 is engaged with both rectangular plate bodies 13 from above,
The lower engaging portion 32 is engaged with the lower surface D of the flange portion 1B, and the inner surface of the second side member 30 is brought into contact with the other side surface C of the flange portion 1B.

Then, the tightening operation of the side operation tool 28 is performed. That is, the first operation is performed by tightening the side operation tool 28.
The lateral pushing member 25 is moved inward with respect to the side member 20, whereby the flange portions 1B of both rails 1 are laterally pushed at the same time, and the other side surface C of the second side member 30 is common. The rails 1 are strongly abutted against each other, so that the rails 1 are aligned in the left-right direction.

Then, the tightening operation of the upper operation tool 18 is performed. That is, when the upper operation tool 18 is tightened, the pressing member 15 is lowered with respect to the upper member 12, whereby the flange portions 1B of both rails 1 are simultaneously pushed down, and the downward surface thereof is a common lower surface. The rails 1 are strongly contacted with the engaging portions 22 and 32, so that the rails 1 are vertically aligned.

The tightening operation of the upper operation tool 18 and the side operation tool 28 may be performed in the reverse order, or may be alternately repeated. After the vertical and horizontal positions are aligned in this way, the bolts 17, 27
The pressing member 15 is fixed to the rectangular plate member 13 and the lateral pressing member 25 is fixed to the first side member 20 by the tightening operation of. After that, the connecting plates 4A and 4B are applied from both sides across the web portions 1A of both rails 1, and the bolts 7 passed through the matched through holes 5 to the bolt holes 2 are screwed into the screw holes 6.
Both rails 1 can be connected to the connecting plate 4
It can be connected via A, 4B, etc.

Positioning device after making such connection
10 is removed from both rails 1 by the reverse operation to the above. The positioning device 10 includes a holding member 15 and a lateral pushing member.
With 25 or the like loosened, the rail 1 can be slidably moved in the longitudinal direction to be set at the next connection position.

In the above embodiment, the upper and lower flange portions 1B, 1
Although the connection of the rail 1 having C has been described, the connection of the rail 1 having the flange portion 1B only on the upper portion can be similarly made. Further, although the bolt type operation tools 18 and 28 are shown in the above embodiment, a cam type or the like may be adopted.

[0032]

According to the present invention having the above-described structure, the pair of linearly arranged rails can be positioned vertically and horizontally by operating the positioning device set between the ends of both rails. Also, you can easily perform hole matching work, etc.
It can always be done easily and quickly regardless of the weight of the rail.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention with a positioning device set on a rail.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the positioning device set on a rail.

FIG. 3 is a side view in which the positioning device is set on a rail.

FIG. 4 is a partially exploded perspective view of the positioning device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 rail 1A web part 1B flange part 1C flange part 2 bolt hole 4A connecting plate 4B connecting plate 5 through hole 6 screw hole 7 bolt 10 positioning device 11 main body 12 upper member 13 rectangular plate 15 presser member 15a vertical piece 15b Side piece 18 Upper operation tool 20 First side member 21 Upper engagement section 22 Lower engagement section 25 Side pushing member 25a Bending piece 25b Front and rear plate section 28 Side operation tool 30 Second side member 31 Upper engagement section 32 Lower engaging part 35 Long hole 35a Large diameter part 36 Coupling 36a Large diameter neck A Flange part upper surface B Flange part one side surface C Flange part other side surface D Flange part downward surface

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A positioning device for rail connection, which is used when connecting a pair of rails having a flange portion at least in an upper portion in a straight line, and connecting the end portions to each other. And a first side member which is integrated on one side of the upper member and is arranged on one side of the flange portion, and is detachably attached to the other side of the upper member via a connector. And the second that can be placed on the other side of the flange
A side member, the upper member has a pressing member that can freely come into contact with and separate from the upper surface of the flange portion, and an upper operation tool that makes contact and separation movement, and the first side member has a flange portion. A lateral pushing member that can be brought into and out of contact with one side surface of the rail, and a side operation tool that is moved into and out of contact with the side portion. A positioning device for rail connection, which is formed in the length direction.