JPH07155839A - Device for continuously clamping wire rod - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely treat the end of crossover without any manual work and to completely automate clamping by guiding the crossover by block members, clamping it by clamping members and cutting it by a cutting member. CONSTITUTION:Entanglement of a wire rod 11 and scattering of a coil are prevented by lifting the crossover 21 crossed between a wire rod transfer body (carrier) 12 and a coil winding furnace 2 by a rod member and separating it from clamping process, guiding it by block members (guide blocks 18 and 19), clamping it by clamping members (chucks 13 and 15) and cutting it by the cutting member 16. The cut wire rod 11 cut by the cutting member 16 is fixed on a continuous fully winding wire rod transfer body (fully winding carrier 61) as the finishing end and beginning end of wound wire rod in a state in which it is clamped by vertically moving clamping members. Thus, the wire rod is continuously clamped by automating treatment of the end of wire rod when the carriers are exchanged.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wire rod continuous gripping device, and more particularly to a wire rod continuous gripping device for continuously carrying out wire rod gripping work by automating the terminal treatment of the wire rod during carrier replacement. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 11 shows a conventional wire rod continuous catching device disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 63-24972 (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 59-73016), in which a coiler winds the wire rod 1 into a coil. 2A, a coil winding hook 2; storage wire shutters 3 and 4 arranged in a two-stage manner near the outer circumference of the coiler 2A; and a coil wound around the coiler 2A located below the coil winding hook 2. It has a pack 6 for receiving the wire rod 11 in the shape of a circle.

According to this continuous gripping device, the coiler 2A
The coil-shaped wire 11 wound around is dropped into the pack 6 provided below and is captured. The pack 6 is placed on the roller conveyor 14 and can move in the horizontal direction.

FIG. 12 shows a state in which the pack 6 is filled with the wire material 11 that has fallen from the coiler 2A. When the pack 6 is thus filled, the wire rod 11 is stopped from falling by closing the storage wire shutter 3 on the lower side arranged in two stages.

Next, the storage line shutter 4 is closed after a predetermined time, and the storage line shutter 3 and the storage line shutter 4 are closed.
The wire rod 11 is stored between the wire and the shutter 4.
Accumulate on the top.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 13, the pack 6 in which the wire rods 11 are stored is horizontally moved by the roller conveyor 14 in the arrow direction a shown in the figure. At this time, when the pack 6 contacts the sensor 7 located in the moving direction of the roller conveyor 14, the storage wire shutter 3 is opened, and the wire rod 11 stored between the storage wire shutter 4 and the storage wire shutter 4 falls.
The dropped wire 11 becomes a connecting wire 21 between the pack 6 and the coiler 2A.

On the other hand, due to the horizontal movement of the roller conveyor 14, another pack (not shown) is provided below the coiler 2A.
Is arranged, and the wire storage shutter 4 is opened thereafter, so that the wire rod 11 falls into the pack and is captured.
The connecting wire 21 passed between the packs 6 is cut when the product is taken out.

As a device for automatically cutting the connecting wire 21, there is a wire winding device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-144524 and Japanese Patent Application No. 3-27814.

As described above, other wire rod catching devices for temporarily holding the drop of the wire rod and exchanging the wire rod holder during that time are disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Nos. 49-90656 and 60-444.
No. 71 publication.

[0010]

However, according to the conventional wire rod continuous gripping device, since the terminal portion of the cut crossover wire is in a free state, the terminal portion is moved to the conveyor or the like when the coil is moved. There is a problem in that the coil that is entangled or caught is unraveled and scattered from the terminal portion, and a repair work is required manually each time. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a wire rod continuous gripping device which can surely carry out terminal treatment of a crossover wire without requiring human labor and which enables complete automation of gripping work.

[0011]

According to the present invention, a wire rod is attached to a body portion having an axis in the vertical direction in order to surely carry out terminal treatment of a crossover wire without requiring manpower and to completely automate the gripping work. A coil-winding pot that winds a coil and feeds a curled wire downward, and a coil-winding wire that is arranged near the outer periphery of the body and opens and closes horizontally with respect to the axis to hold the coiled wire. A two-stage storage wire shutter that drops, a wire rod transfer body that receives and transfers a curled wire rod that falls from the body part, a transport unit that horizontally moves the wire rod transport member, and a delivery unit The rod member that is positioned in the direction of the wire rod and is lifted up from the drop position of the wire rod that is horizontally conveyed between the wire rod transfer body and the body, and the crossover wire that moves in the length direction of the rod member. Predetermined A pair of gripping members that are provided between the pair of gripping members and a pair of gripping members that grip the raised crossover at a predetermined position, and a cutting member that cuts the wire rod; Is cut by the cutter member, and the first gripping member is lowered to fix one end of the wire rod cut by the cutter member to the wire rod transfer means for transferring the fully wound wire rod as the winding end end of the wire rod, and the cutter member. A wire rod catching means having a second gripping means which is lowered to hold the other end of the wire rod and fix it to the fully wound wire rod transfer means as the winding start end of the wire rod. A gripping device is provided.

[0012]

According to the present invention, the crossover wire passed between the wire rod transfer body and the coil winding hook is lifted by the rod member to be separated from the gripping step, and guided by the block member to be gripped by the gripping member. Later cutting with a cutter member prevents entanglement of the wire rod and scattering of the coil. The wire rod cut by the cutter member is fixed to the fully wound wire rod transfer body which is continuous as the winding end end and the winding start end of the wire rod while being held by the lifting gripping member.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The wire rod continuous gripping device of the present invention will be described in detail below. The parts having the same configurations and functions as those of the conventional technique are designated by the same reference numerals, and the duplicate description will be omitted.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a wire rod continuous gripping apparatus according to the present invention. A coiler 2 for winding the wire rod 1 into a coil shape.
A coil winding hook 2 having A, storage line shutters 3 and 4 arranged in a two-stage manner in the vicinity of the outer circumference of the coiler 2A, and a coil wound around the coiler 2A located below the coil winding hook 2. It has a carrier 12 for receiving the wire rod 11.

The carrier 12 is placed on the roller conveyor 14, and when the coiled wire 11 is fully wound, it is carried out in the direction a shown in the figure. In the figure, a full-winding carrier 61 that is already fully wound is shown. Carrier 12
The chucks 13 and 15 are located at substantially the same height as the coil winding hook 2 in the carry-out direction, and are arranged in the carry-out direction to expand and contract in the vertical direction.
A cutter 16 for cutting the above-mentioned connecting wire 21 is provided between them.

Directly below the chucks 13 and 15, there is provided a pair of guide rods 17 which are embedded in a manner to traverse the carrying-out direction of the roller conveyor 14. The guide bar 17 moves in the Y direction shown in the figure.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the continuous gripping device of FIG. 1, in which guide blocks 18 and 19 for guiding a crossover 21 are inserted through the guide rod 17, and each of them is in the central direction of the guide rod 17. By moving to the coil winding pot 2
And the crossover line 21 is guided along an imaginary line connecting the central axes of the full-roll carrier 61.

The operation of the wire rod continuous gripping device of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 3 shows a step of picking up the wire rod 11. The wire rod 11 supplied to the coil winding hook is habituated by the coiler 2A, and is dropped onto the carrier 12 to be picked up. When the gripping is started, the tip of the wire rod 11 to be the crossover wire 21 is previously captured by the chuck 13.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the full line carrier 6
When 1 is formed, first, the wire rod 11 is stopped from falling by closing the first-stage storage line shutter 3, and then the second-stage storage line shutter 4 is closed after a predetermined time. As a result, the wire rod 11 is stored between the storage line shutters 3 and 4 in a predetermined length, and thereafter, the line 11 is also stored on the storage line shutter 4.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the full line carrier 6
The storage line shutter 3 is opened while carrying out 1 in the direction of a in the figure by the roller conveyor 14. As a result, the crossover wire 21 is formed between the coil winding hook 2 and the full wire carrier 61 that has been carried out.

The full wire carrier 61 is temporarily stopped at the point where the cavity wall portion provided in the center is located immediately below the chuck 13, and the chuck 13 is inserted into the full wire carrier 61 as shown in FIG. Fix the tip of. This fixed part is a full-line carrier 61 so that it cannot be easily released.
It is fixed in a C shape inside.

When the fixing work is completed, the roller conveyor 1
4 carries out the full line carrier 61 again in the direction of a in the figure.

When the full-line carrier 61 is carried out and passes through the buried guide rod 17, the guide rod 17 moves vertically upward, and at the same time, the guide blocks 18 and 19 (not shown) move toward the center of the guide rod 17. No.) and a chuck 1 which is installed near the coil winding pot 2 at almost the same height.
The crossover 21 is guided to 3,15.

After that, the connecting wire 21 is attached to the chucks 13 and 15
And is cut by a cutter 16 provided between them. Due to this cutting, the chuck 13 captures the outer end of the full-line carrier 61, and the chuck 15 captures the inner end of the coil captured by the empty carrier 12.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the roller conveyor 14 is turned over so that the cavity wall portion provided in the center of the full line carrier 61 is located directly below the chuck 15, and then the chuck 15 is placed as shown in FIG. The inner end of the coil is fixed by vertically extending. At the time of this fixing, the inner terminal is fixed to the inner wall of the coil in an inverted C-shape, which prevents the inner terminal from being easily unraveled. When the fixing of the inner terminal is completed, the full line carrier 61 is carried out by the roller conveyor 14 in the direction of a in the figure.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8,
An empty carrier 12 is arranged below the coil winding pot 2 by a roller conveyor 14. Then, the storage line shutter 4 is opened, and the wire rod 11 stored in the coiler 2A is dropped onto an empty carrier 12 (not shown). The wire material 11 that has been stored drops to an empty carrier with high accuracy by opening the storage wire shutter 4.

After that, by continuously repeating the above-described operation, the work of gripping and fixing the wire 11 can be efficiently and automatically performed.

A wire end catching plate 22 having a slit 9 as shown in FIG. 9 may be provided above the carrier 12 to fix the wire rod 11.

As shown in FIG. 10, the wire end capturing plate 22 is attached to the inside of the side of the carrier 12 so that it is fixed to the slit 9 when the wire 11 is vertically inserted by the chucks 13 and 15. You can also

According to the above continuous gripping device, one end is an inner end and the other is an outer end by catching the wire to be gripped by the carrier with a pair of chucks and then cutting it with a cutter. Since the inner terminal and the outer terminal are captured at a position distant from the conveyor, the terminal part does not get tangled and the grip is automatically fixed to the full line carrier by the chuck to improve the certainty of gripping work. To do. Therefore, stable operation of the continuous gripping device can be performed without requiring manpower.

[0032]

As described above, according to the wire rod continuous gripping device of the present invention, the coil is wound around the body having the axis in the vertical direction, and the coil with the curl is supplied downward. A winding hook, a two-stage storage line shutter that is placed near the outer periphery of the body and holds or drops the coiled wire by opening and closing in the horizontal direction with respect to the axis, and a winding that drops from the body. A wire rod transfer body for receiving and transferring the bent wire rod, a transfer means for moving the wire rod transfer body in a horizontal direction, and a delivery position of the transfer means,
A rod member that lifts the crossover of the wire rod that is passed between the wire rod transfer body that has been horizontally discharged from the drop position of the wire rod and the body part, and the rod member that moves in the length direction of the rod member A block member for guiding, and a pair of gripping members for gripping the lifted crossover wire at a predetermined position,
It is provided between a pair of gripping members and is composed of a cutter member for cutting the wire rod. The pair of gripping members is a wire rod transfer means for holding one end of the wire rod cut by the cutter member and transferring the fully wound wire rod. The first gripping member, which is lowered to be fixed as the winding end end of the wire rod, and the other end of the wire rod cut by the cutter member, is fixed as the winding start end of the wire rod to the fully wound wire rod transfer means. Therefore, since the wire rod capturing means having the second gripping means which is lowered is provided, it is possible to surely perform the terminal treatment of the crossover wire and to completely automate the grasping work without requiring manpower.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of a wire rod continuous gripping device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a wire rod continuous gripping device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a wire rod gripping step.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a step of gripping a wire rod.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of transporting full-line carriers.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a fixing step of the terminal portion.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a fixing step of the terminal portion.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a fixing step of the terminal portion.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a line terminal capturing plate 22.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing another fixing method of the line terminal capturing plate 22.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory view showing a conventional wire rod continuous gripping device.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing a conventional continuous wire gripping device.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional wire rod continuous gripping device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 wire rod 2 coil winding pot 2A coiler 3,4 storage line shutter 6 pack 7 sensor 9 slit 11 wire rod 12 carrier 13 chuck 14 roller conveyor 15 chuck 16 cutter 17 guide rod 18, 19 guide block 21 crossover wire 22 wire end capture plate 61 Full line carrier

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Katsuo Sekita 4-10-1 Kawajiri-cho, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki Hitachi Cable Co., Ltd. Toyoura factory (72) Inventor Akira Aoki 4-chome Kawajiri-cho, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki No. 1 Hitachi Cable Co., Ltd. Toyoura Plant (72) Inventor Kazunori Shibata 4-10-1 Kawajiri-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Hitachi Cable Co., Ltd. Toyoura Plant

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A coil winding hook for winding a wire rod around a body having an axis in the vertical direction and supplying the wire rod having a curl downward, and a coil winding pot arranged near an outer periphery of the body, A two-stage storage shutter that holds or drops the coiled wire by opening and closing in the horizontal direction with respect to the axis, and receives and transfers the curled wire that falls from the body part. A wire rod transfer body, a transfer means for moving the wire rod transfer body in a horizontal direction, a wire rod transfer body and a body portion which are positioned in a delivery direction of the transfer means and are horizontally transferred out from a drop position of the wire rod A rod member that lifts the crossover of the wire that is passed between, a block member that moves in the length direction of the rod member to guide the crossover to a predetermined position, and the lifted crossover The pair of gripping members gripping at a predetermined position, and a cutter member that is provided between the pair of gripping members and cuts the wire rod, and the pair of gripping members is the wire rod cut by the cutter member. First gripping member that is lowered to fix the one end of the wire rod to the wire rod transfer means that transfers the fully wound wire rod as the winding end end of the wire rod, and the other end of the wire rod cut by the cutter member The second lowering because the wire is gripped and then fixed to the fully wound wire transfer means as the winding start end of the wire.
And a wire rod capturing means having a gripping means.