JPH0638617Y2 - Heat treatment equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION "Industrial field of application" The present invention includes a plurality of processing devices for performing a series of processing,
The present invention relates to a heat treatment facility including a transport device for transporting an object to be processed and configured to sequentially transport the object to be processed by the carrier device.

"Prior Art" An example of this type of heat treatment equipment is shown in FIG. This is equipment for performing vacuum aluminum brazing. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a brazing furnace for performing brazing on a work (workpiece) W, and 2 is a brazing work W. A cooling furnace for cooling, 3 is a transfer device for transferring the work, 4 is a work table for loading the work W to be processed into the transfer device 3 and taking out the processed work W from the transfer device 3. Is.

The brazing furnace 1, the cooling furnace 2, and the workbench 4 are arranged in a horizontal row with their front positions aligned, and the transfer device 3 is provided along a traveling path 5 provided on the front side thereof. Can run.

Although not shown, the transfer device 3 is equipped with a charging / extracting device for charging and extracting the work W into the brazing furnace 1, the cooling furnace 2, and the workbench 4, respectively.

In the case of performing the brazing process of the work W by the above equipment, the following work procedure has been generally taken conventionally.

First, the work W is placed on the workbench 4, the transport device 3 is stopped at a position facing the workbench 4, and the work W on the workbench 4 is loaded on the transport device 3 by the charging / extracting device.
Then, the transfer device 3 is run and stopped at a position facing the front surface of the brazing furnace 1, the work W is charged into the brazing furnace 1 by the charging / extracting device, and the transfer device 3 is made to stand by at that position. Keep it.

When the processing in the brazing furnace 1 is completed, the work W is extracted from the brazing furnace 1 by the charging / extracting device and loaded on the transfer device 3, and then the transfer device 3 is moved to a position facing the front surface of the cooling furnace 2. Stop there, work W
Is charged into the cooling furnace 2. Then, the carrier device 3 is returned to a position facing the work table 4, the work to be processed next is loaded on the carrier device 3, and the carrier device 3 is run and stopped at a position facing the front surface of the brazing furnace 1. Then, the work is loaded into the brazing furnace 1 and kept in standby there.

When the cooling is completed, the works W are extracted from the cooling furnace 2 and loaded on the transfer device 3, and the transfer device 3 is run to move the work table 4
When the work W is taken out onto the work table 4, the processing for the work W is completed.

Further, there is another conventional equipment shown in FIG.
By disposing the brazing furnace 1 and the cooling furnace 2 on both sides of the traveling path 5 of the carrier device 3, the traveling range of the carrier device 3 is slightly shortened as compared with that shown in FIG. Others are the same as the above, and the work procedure is the same as the above.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] By the way, when the above work procedure is adopted in the above equipment, the brazing process for one work W is completed, and then the work for the new work W is performed. A dead time occurs in the brazing furnace 1 until the brazing process is started. Further, the transfer device 3 has to be reciprocated between the brazing furnace 1, the cooling furnace 2, and the work table 4 many times, so that the traveling distance of the transfer device 3 becomes unduly long. . As a result, not only is work efficiency poor, but operating costs and maintenance costs also increase.
Was causing the problem.

In addition, the above is not limited to the vacuum aluminum brazing equipment as described above, and may be applied to various heat treatment equipment which is configured to convey a work to a plurality of processing devices by a transfer device and perform a series of processing. It occurs similarly, and the improvement was demanded.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a heat treatment equipment capable of improving productivity and work efficiency.

"Means for Solving the Problem" The present invention includes a plurality of processing devices for performing a series of processing,
A transporting device for processed objects, which is capable of traveling on the front side of the processing devices and is equipped with a loading / extracting device for loading and extracting the processed objects into / from each processing device. And a heat treatment facility configured to sequentially convey the object to be treated to each of the processing devices by the transport device, the transport device is equipped with a plurality of the charging and extracting devices, and When any one of the charging / extracting devices faces any one of the plurality of processing devices, the other charging / extracting device faces the other processing devices. .

[Operation] In the heat treatment equipment of the present invention, a plurality of charging / extracting devices are simultaneously conveyed by a conveying device having a plurality of charging / extracting devices, and one of the charging / extracting devices faces the other treating device. Since the other charging / extracting device faces the other processing device at the same time, the plural charging / extracting devices simultaneously load / extract a plurality of objects to be processed into / from the plurality of processing devices.

[Embodiment] An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to vacuum aluminum brazing equipment will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

FIG. 1 is a layout view of the equipment of this embodiment, and is designated by reference numeral 11 in the drawing.
Brazing furnace (processing device), 12 cooling furnace (processing device),
Reference numeral 13 is a transfer device, and 14 is a workbench.

The above-mentioned transfer device 13 is capable of traveling along the traveling path 15, and the transfer device 13 includes two charging / extracting devices 16A,
The 16Bs are mounted side by side along the running direction.

Further, the brazing furnace 11 and the cooling furnace 12 are arranged on both sides of the traveling path 15 so as to face each other with their front surfaces facing the traveling path 15.
As shown in FIG. 1, when the charging / extracting device 16A on one side faces the front surface of the brazing furnace 11, the charging / extracting device 16B on the other side faces the front surface of the cooling furnace 12. In addition, they are arranged opposite to each other with a slight deviation along the traveling direction.

A work procedure performed by the equipment having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

First, as shown in (a), while the work W _{1 is} being brazed in the brazing furnace 11, the transfer device
The charging / extracting device 16A is made to travel and stopped at a position facing the workbench 14, and the works W ₂ placed on the workbench 14 are loaded into the transfer device 13 by the charging / extracting device 16A.

Then, the transport device 13 is run to the left in the figure,
As shown in (b), the charging and extracting device 16B is installed in the brazing furnace 11
The work W ₁ that has been brazed by the charging / extracting device 16B is extracted from the brazing furnace 11 and loaded into the transfer device 13 by being stopped at a position opposed to.

Next, further move the transport device 13 to the left,
As shown in (c), the charging / extracting device 16B is stopped at a position facing the cooling furnace 12. As a result, the charging and extracting device 16A
Will face the brazing furnace 11.

Therefore, the work W ₂ is brazed by the charging / extracting device 16A.
1 is charged (the dead time of the brazing furnace 11 is shortened as much as possible), and the work W ₁ is charged into the cooling furnace 12 by the charging / extracting device 16B. And, generally, the time required for cooling is shorter than the time required for brazing,
Since the cooling workpiece W ₁ will be completed while performing brazing of W _2, again conveying device the workpiece W ₁ has been completed the cooling
Load on 16B. Further, during this period, a new work W ₃ is placed on the workbench 14.

Then, the transfer device 13 is moved to the right, the charging and extracting device 16A is stopped so as to face the worktable 14 as shown in (d), and a new work W ₃ on the workbench 14 is transferred to the transfer device 13 To load.

Further, the transfer device 13 is moved slightly to the right, the charging / extracting device 16B is opposed to the workbench 14 as shown in (e), the work W ₁ is taken out onto the workbench 14, and the work W ₁ is further removed. Transfer from the workbench 14 to the next process.

By the above, the process for one work W ₁ is completed and the state of (a) is reached, so that the above procedure is repeated thereafter.

By performing a series of processes by the above procedure by the above equipment, the dead time of the brazing furnace 11 is short, and cooling is performed while brazing one work W ₂ in the brazing furnace 11. In the furnace 12, since the other workpieces W ₁ that have been brazed are simultaneously cooled, the productivity can be greatly improved as compared with the conventional case.

In the above facility, the work device W, which has been brazed, is moved from the brazing furnace 11 to the cooling furnace 12 by only reciprocating the transfer device 13 from the position facing the work table 14 to the position facing the cooling furnace 12. Therefore, the new work W can be transferred from the work table 14 to the brazing furnace 11 at the same time, so that the transfer device 13 travels without waste, resulting in the conventional equipment. In comparison, work efficiency can be greatly improved, and operating costs and maintenance costs can be reduced.

In the above embodiment, the brazing furnace 11 and the cooling furnace 12 are arranged on both sides of the traveling path 15 so as to face each other, but this is not always the case, and they may be arranged side by side as shown in FIG. .

Further, the present invention can be widely applied not only to vacuum aluminum brazing equipment but also to various heat treatment equipment in which a series of treatments are carried out by a plurality of treatment equipments while conveying an object to be treated by a conveyance equipment. Is.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, since it is applied to the equipment provided with the two processing devices, that is, the brazing furnace 11 and the cooling furnace 12, the transfer device 13 is equipped with the two charging / extracting devices 16A and 16B. Two work W ₁ , W by two charging / extracting devices 16A, 16B
_It was configured to load and extract ₂ into the cooling furnace 12 and the brazing furnace 11 at the same time.However, when applied to equipment that performs a series of treatments with a larger number of treatment equipments, the equipment to be installed in the transfer equipment is used. It is also possible to further increase the number of charging / extracting devices and to charge / extract a large number of objects to / from each processing device simultaneously by the large number of charging / extracting devices.

[Advantages of Device] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, a plurality of charging / extracting devices are mounted on a transfer device for transferring an object to be processed. When any one of the two faces one of the plurality of processing devices,
Since the other charging / extracting device is configured to face the other processing device, it is possible to load a plurality of objects to be processed into the plurality of processing devices at the same time and to extract from them. It is possible to shorten the down time of the processing device for loading and extracting the objects to be processed, which can improve productivity, improve work efficiency, and reduce operating costs and maintenance costs.
It has an excellent effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a layout view of heat treatment equipment of this embodiment, and FIG. 2 (a).
(E) is a figure for demonstrating the work procedure of the equipment. FIG. 3 is a layout view of heat treatment equipment according to another embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are layout diagrams showing examples of conventional heat treatment equipment. W, W ₁ , W ₂ , W ₃ …… Work (workpiece), 11 …… Brazing furnace (processing equipment), 12 …… Cooling furnace (processing equipment), 13 …… Transfer equipment, 14 …… Work Stands, 15 …… Traveling path, 16A, 16B …… Charging and extracting equipment.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A plurality of processing devices for performing a series of processing, and a processing device that can run on the front side of the processing devices. The processing object is loaded into and extracted from each processing device. In a heat treatment equipment configured to be provided with a transfer device for a processed object on which a charging and extracting device for carrying out is installed, and to sequentially transfer the processed object to each of the processing devices by the transfer device, When a plurality of the charging / extracting devices are mounted on the conveying device, and any one of the plurality of charging / extracting devices faces any one of the plurality of processing devices, another charging / extracting device is A heat treatment facility characterized by being configured so as to face another processing device.