JPH11138253A - Shake-out apparatus in casting line - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently separate and remove sound molding sand and burnt sand at the time of shaking out for taking out a product and to prevent the development of a trouble caused by hooking of the product without obstructing the shake-out performance of the molding sand. SOLUTION: In an inverse taking-out device 6, a clamping device 23 for clamping a lower flask 3 carried to the taking-out position with a carrying means, an opening/closing gate device 24 for positioning to cover the upper part of the clamped lower flask, an inverse machine 19 for turning over the upper and lower surfaces while supporting the clamping device and the opening/ closing gate device, an elevating/lowering device 15 for shifting by elevating/ lowering while supporting the inverse machine and a transfer device 10 for reciprocatively shifting between the taking-out position and a discharging position on a shaker 7 while supporting the elevating/lowering device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for unraveling a casting from a casting mold in a casting line for producing a cast product, and more particularly to a unraveling apparatus in a casting line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The equipment configuration of a casting line comprises a molding machine, a core placing machine, a frame aligning machine, a pouring machine, an in-frame cooling device, and a frame transport device for transporting a frame between the devices. Generally, a molding frame is composed of an upper frame and a lower frame,
Each frame is separately filled with mold sand to form a mold, and the molten metal is poured into the mold by aligning the upper and lower frames immediately before the pouring operation. After that, the molding frame treats the upper and lower frames as one frame body, and is transported integrally to the frame releasing device. In the frame release device, the molding sand and the product are separated from the molding frame by a method (punch-out) in which the molding sand and the product are pushed up or down at the same time while the upper and lower frames are held together. The mold sand attached to the product is separated by a shaker.

[0003]

The mold sand separated from the molding frame is subjected to an appropriate treatment after being collected and reused. Since the mold sand is exposed to a high-temperature molten metal of 1300 to 1400 ° C. at the time of pouring, the mold sand in contact with the product is burned to produce baked sand. The mold sand containing the baked sand is not suitable as the mold sand because the moisture control is not stable, and it is necessary to separate the baked sand from the mold sand to be collected and reused.

However, in the above-described conventional configuration,
Since the entire amount of the molding sand in the molding frame was put on the shaker, it was difficult to separate and collect sound molding sand and baked sand. In addition, the shaker has the function of a sieve that separates the product and the mold sand.Therefore, the transport surface is formed in various lattice shapes, and the product gets caught in the lattice, causing troubles and assisting monitoring and restoration. Since work was required, automation was difficult. Further, there has been a problem in that damage such as dents and cracks occurs in the hooked product.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to efficiently separate and recover sound mold sand and baked sand when unpacking a product, thereby hindering the sand removal performance. It is an object of the present invention to provide a frame release device in a casting line that prevents troubles caused by product catching.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a frame release apparatus in a casting line according to the present invention raises and lowers a lower frame of a molding frame after separating an upper frame by a reverse take-out device. Then, a product casting that falls from the lower frame and a surrounding mold sand that falls along with the product casting are sieved with a shaker, and the reversing removal device clamps the lower frame that has been transported to the removal position by the transporting means. Clamping device, an opening / closing gate device positioned over the clamped lower frame, a reversing device that supports the clamping device and the opening / closing gate device and inverts the upper and lower surfaces, and a lifting device that supports the reversing device and moves up and down. And a transfer device that supports the lifting device and reciprocates between a take-out position and a discharge position on a shaker.

In the shaker, a conveying surface is formed by a plurality of blades arranged at appropriate intervals along the conveying direction of the vibration conveying, and the blades are arranged so as to be inclined upward in the conveying direction. .

[0008] With the above structure, the lower frame clamped by the clamp device is lifted from the take-out position by driving the elevating device, and the upper and lower surfaces are inverted by driving the reversing machine. Falls out of the mold, and the opening / closing gate device receives the falling product casting and the surrounding mold sand falling along with the product casting.

[0009] By driving the transfer device, the product casting and the mold sand held by the opening / closing gate device are transferred to a discharge position, and the opening / closing gate device is held at an appropriate height by driving the lifting / lowering device. The product casting and mold sand are put into the shaker by the opening operation.

In a shaker, a product casting is conveyed while sifting mold sand by vibrating a conveying surface. In this shaker, only the product casting that has fallen out of the mold due to the inversion of the lower frame and the surrounding mold sand accompanying the product casting fall, so that the sieving load is reduced and the vibration capacity required for the shaker can be reduced. In addition, the distance of the transporting step can be shortened, and the frequency of catch of the product casting, which is proportional to the length of the distance of the transporting step, can be reduced.

Further, in the shaker, since the blades forming the transfer surface are inclined upward in the transfer direction, it is possible to prevent the product casting from being caught between the blades.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the unraveling apparatus 1 includes a molding machine, a core placing machine, a frame aligning machine, an in-frame cooling device, and a casting line 2 including a frame transporting device that transports a frame between the devices. It is arranged on the way, and takes out the product casting 4 cast from the lower frame 3 of the molding frame after separating the upper frame in the previous process.

The unpacking device 1 is generally described as follows.
, The lower frame 3 is lifted and held by the reverse extracting device 6, and the product casting 4 that falls from the lower frame 3 and the surrounding mold that falls along with the product casting 4 The sand 3a, especially the baked sand baked at the time of pouring, is sieved with a shaker 7.

As shown in FIG. 2, a lower frame lifter 9 for pushing up the lower frame 3 is arranged at a take-out position adjacent to the shaker 7 in the middle of the conveyor 8 for conveying the lower frame 3. The reversing take-out device 6 has a transfer device 10 that reciprocates between a take-out position and a discharge position on the shaker 7, and the transfer device 10 moves on a ceiling rail 12 of a main body frame 11. It comprises a carriage 13 and a traveling drive cylinder (hydraulic or electric motor) 14 for driving the transfer carriage 13. The transfer cart 13 supports an elevating device 15, and the elevating device 15 is a vertically moving elevating table 16.
And an elevation drive cylinder (hydraulic) 17 that drives the elevation table 16 up and down, and a plurality of guide rods 18 that guide the elevation table 16 up and down.

The lifting table 16 supports a reversing machine 19. The reversing machine 19 is capable of reversing the upper and lower surfaces between a pair of left and right support arms 20 vertically mounted on the lifting table 16 and between the two support arms 20. The reversing frame 21 is supported by a shaft, and a rotation driving device (hydraulic or electric motor) 22 for driving the reversing frame 21 to rotate.

The reversing frame 21 supports a clamp device 23 and an opening / closing gate device 24.
A plurality of clamp claws 25 for clamping the lower frame 3 conveyed to the take-out position by the conveyor 8, a link device 26 for interlocking the clamp claws 25, and a claw drive cylinder for opening and closing the clamp claws 25 via the link device 26 ( Hydraulic pressure) 2
7, the opening / closing gate device 24 includes a reversing hopper 28 positioned over the lower frame 3 and a reversing hopper 28
A pair of left and right hopper gates 29 provided in the upper opening of
The link device 30 includes a link device 30 that works with the hopper gate 29 and a gate drive cylinder (hydraulic) 31 that drives the hopper gate 29 to open and close via the link device 30.

The shaker 7 comprises a vibrating frame 33 supported by a plurality of columns 32 so as to be swingable, and a vibrator 34 for driving the vibrating frame 33 to vibrate. A plurality of skeleton members 35 extending in parallel with each other;
A transport surface is formed by a plurality of blades 36 arranged at appropriate intervals along the transport direction between adjacent frame members 35, and each blade 36 is arranged to be inclined upward in the transport direction.

The end of the vibrating frame 33 in the conveying direction is open above the casting conveyor 37. A stopper device 38 for retaining the product casting 4 and a stay for detecting the stay of the product casting 4 are provided at the opening. A detection sensor (not shown) is provided.

The operation of the above configuration will be described below. The lower frame 3 transported into the dust collecting cabin 5 by the transport conveyor 8 is in a state where the upper frame is separated in the previous process, and the product casting 4 is semi-submerged in the mold sand 3a filled in the lower frame 3.

When the lower frame lifter 9 lifts the lower frame 3 at the take-out position, the lifting device 15 drives the lifting table 16 downward by the lifting drive cylinder 17, and the lower frame 3 is moved as the lifting table 16 is lowered. The clamp claw 25 of the reversing machine 19 descending upward is positioned at the clamp level.

The clamp device 23 includes the claw driving cylinder 2
7, the clamp pawl 25 is closed via the link device 26, and the lower frame 3 is clamped by the left and right clamp pawls 25. In this state, the opening / closing gate device 24 covers the upper surface of the lower frame 3, and the hopper gate 29 is in a closed state.

The lifting device 15 drives the lifting table 16 up and down by the lifting drive cylinder 17 to lift the lower frame 3 upward. The reversing machine 19 drives the rotation driving device 22 to rotationally drive the reversing frame 21, and the lower frame 3 and the opening / closing gate device 2
Invert 4 Due to the inversion of the lower frame 3, the product casting 4 and the surrounding mold sand 3 a that falls along with the product casting 4 from the lower frame 3, particularly the baked sand fired at the time of pouring, fall into the opening / closing gate device 24. .

The transfer device 10 drives the transfer carriage 13 by means of a drive cylinder 14 to transfer the lower frame 3 and the opening / closing gate device 24 to the discharge position of the shaker 7, and the lifting device 15 controls the opening / closing gate device 24 to a predetermined position. Position at the drop level. Thereafter, the opening / closing gate device 24 opens the hopper gate 29 by the gate drive cylinder 31 via the link device 30, and the product casting 4 and the mold sand (burning sand) 3a.
Into the shaker 7.

The shaker 7 drives the vibrator 34 to vibrate the vibrating frame 33, and sieves the product casting 4 and the surrounding molding sand (burning sand) 3a accompanying the product casting 4 onto the conveying surface. The remaining product casting 4 is transported toward the casting transport conveyor 37. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, the blades 36 forming the conveying surface of the shaker 7 are inclined upward in the conveying direction, so that the product casting 4 is
Smooth conveyance can be performed without being caught in the middle. The stopper device 38 is opened while the sieved product castings 4 remain, and the product castings 4 are put into the casting conveyor 37. (Embodiment) Here, specific device specifications relating to the performance of the present invention will be shown. If the effective size of the molding frame is 1200 × 900 × 350 × 300 mm and the filling sand is 600 kg for the upper frame and 500 kg for the lower frame, the conventional method of punching out the upper frame and the lower frame at one time is a shaker. Although 1100 kg of mold sand falls on the top, in the method of the present invention, 200 to 300 kg
And the load on the shaker becomes 1/3 to 1/4. Moreover, since most of the mold sand to be charged is baked sand (no water, no lump, free flowing sand), the rating of the vibration performance can be set low, and the size of the shaker becomes 1500 W × 2000 L, The width and the distance in the transport direction can be sufficiently reduced as compared with the general conventional specification of 6000 W × 12000 L.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the shaker is sieved because only the product casting that has fallen out of the mold due to the inversion of the lower frame and the surrounding burning sand accompanying the product casting fall. The amount of load is reduced, the vibration capacity required for the shaker can be reduced, and the distance of the transfer process can be shortened, and the frequency of catching of the product casting in proportion to the length of the transfer process can be reduced. . Further, in the shaker, since the blades forming the transfer surface are inclined upward in the transfer direction, it is possible to prevent the product casting from being caught between the blades.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an entire configuration of a frame release device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an operation of the frame releasing device in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an operation of the frame releasing device in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a shaker in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 frame release device 3 lower frame 4 product casting 6 reverse take-out device 7 shaker 10 transfer device 13 transfer trolley 14 traveling drive cylinder 15 lifting device 16 lifting table 17 lifting drive cylinder 19 reversing machine 21 reversing frame 22 rotation drive device 23 clamp Device 24 Opening / closing gate device 25 Clamp claw 27 Claw drive cylinder 31 Gate drive cylinder 33 Vibration frame 36 Blade 38 Stopper device

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Masayoshi Katakami 2-47, Shikitsu Higashi 1-chome, Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka (72) Inventor Koji Inaba Koji Inaba Osaka-shi, Osaka-shi No. 2-47 Kubota Corporation

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A lower frame of a molding frame from which an upper frame has been separated is lifted upside down by a reversing take-out device and held upside down, so that a product casting falling from the lower frame and surrounding mold sand falling accompanying the product casting are separated. What is sieved by a shaker, the reverse take-out device, a clamp device for clamping the lower frame conveyed to the take-out position by the conveying means, an opening and closing gate device located over the clamped lower frame, a clamp device, A reversing device that supports the opening / closing gate device and inverts the upper and lower surfaces, a lifting device that supports the reversing device and moves up and down, and a transfer device that supports the lifting device and reciprocates between the take-out position and the discharge position on the shaker An unraveling device for a casting line, comprising: 2. The shaker is characterized in that a transfer surface is formed by a plurality of blades arranged at appropriate intervals along the transfer direction of the vibration transfer, and the blades are arranged to be inclined upward in the transfer direction. 2. A frame release device in a casting line according to claim 1.