JPH11196514A - Covering-material/conductor separation recovery device for covered wire - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a covering-material/conductor separation recovery device for a covered wire, by which the covered wire is smoothly separated continuously into a covering material and a conductor, and recovered regardless of the difference of the quality of material of the covering material and the difference of the diameters of the covered wires, and the whole of which is lightweight and is compacted. SOLUTION: A covering material/conductor separation recovery device is composed of a pair of feeding rollers 1, 2 pinching the covered wire A and feeding the wire A in the forwarding direction, a pair of rotary edges 3, 4 cutting and tearing the covering material of the covered wire from symmetric places and a covering/material separator 5 separating the covering material Al cut and torn by a pair of rotary edges 3, 4 from a conductor A2. The rotary edges 3, 4 are arranged while being shifted at a predetermined distance in the forwarding direction, and covered-wire guide tools 32, 42 are installed respectively while being oppositely faced to the rotary edge 3, 4. The rotary edge 3 and the covered-wire guide tool 42 are urged in the pinching direction of the covered wire A by resilient members 34, 45. The feeding roller 1 and the rotary edges 3, 4 are constituted rotatably of a single driving device. A cutter 8 cutting the covering material Al separated from the conductor A2 is mounted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for separating and recovering a covering material and a core wire of a covered electric wire for separating and collecting a covering material and a core wire of the covered electric wire.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of apparatus is disclosed in
As described in JP-A-2-138796 and JP-A-62-189905, there has been provided an apparatus for separating and recovering a coating material and a core wire by cutting the coating material of a coated electric wire with a single cutter.

[0003]

However, in the conventional method of cutting the covering material of the covered electric wire with a single cutter as in the above-mentioned conventional method, if the covered electric wire to be separated and collected has a habit due to winding or the like. In addition, there has been a problem that the position of the covered electric wire with respect to the cutter is slightly displaced, and the covering material cannot be cut sufficiently. Although the habit of the covered electric wire may be corrected before cutting with a cutter, it is difficult to straighten the covered electric wire once having the habit as before.

[0004] In addition, since the covering material has different softness depending on the material, and there are many covered wires having different diameters, the covering material is coated corresponding to various covering materials having different softness or covered wires having different diameters. It was essential to be able to separate the material and the core wire smoothly.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for separating and recovering a covering material and a core wire of a covered electric wire according to the first aspect of the present invention. A pair of feed rollers for nipping and feeding in the feed direction;
It comprises a pair of rotary blades for cutting off the covering material of the covered electric wire from a symmetrical position, and a covering material separating tool for separating the covering material cut by the pair of rotating blades from the core wire.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for separating and recovering a covered wire and a core wire, wherein the pair of rotary blades are arranged at a predetermined distance in the feed direction, and face the rotary blades. Wire guides are provided respectively.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the pair of rotary blades or the covered wire guide is urged by a resilient member in a direction in which the covered wire is clamped. Things.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sheathing / core wire separating and collecting apparatus for an insulated wire, wherein the feed roller and the rotary blade are rotatable by a single driving device.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for separating and recovering a covered wire and a core wire of a covered electric wire, wherein a cutting device for cutting the coated material separated from the core wire by the covering material separating tool is provided.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a covering material of a covered electric wire according to the present invention.
1 shows the overall configuration of a core wire separation and recovery device.

This covering material / core wire separating / recovering device comprises a pair of feed rollers for holding and covering the covered electric wire A in the feed direction, a pair of rotary blades for cutting the covering material A1 of the covered electric wire A from a symmetric position, and A coating material separating tool 5 for separating the coating material A1 cut by the pair of rotary blades from the core wire A2 as a main part, and a pair of feed rollers, a pair of rotary blades, and a coating material in the feed direction. The separation tools 5 are arranged on the base 6 in this order.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pair of feed rollers includes a lower drive roller 1 and an upper roller 2.

The lower drive roller 1 is, as shown in FIG.
The shaft member 1a is integrally provided at one end via a key member 1b. The shaft member 1a is rotatably supported by a support member 11 fixed on the base 6 via a bearing 11a.

A guide groove 12 for guiding the covered electric wire A is formed on the peripheral surface of the lower drive roller 1, and the covered electric wire A is formed in a space defined by the peripheral surface of the upper roller 2 and the guide groove 12. Pinch. The guide groove 12 has a substantially V-shaped bottom surface with a gentle angle.

As shown in FIG. 2, the upper roller 2 is provided integrally with one end of a shaft member 2a via a key member 2b. The shaft member 2a is provided with a bearing 21a on a sliding member 21 slidably arranged in the vertical direction on the support member 11.
It is rotatably supported via

The sliding member 21 is urged downward by a spring 22 as a resilient member, whereby the upper roller 2 is urged by the lower drive roller 1 so as to clamp an electric wire. The upper roller 2 moves upward against the urging force of the spring 22 so as to correspond to the covered electric wires A having different diameters.

The shaft member 1a of the lower drive roller 1
A sprocket 13 is integrally provided at the other end of the
A chain connected to a drive device described later is wound around the sprocket 13.

The pair of rotary blades are, as shown in FIG.
The upper rotating blade 3 and the lower rotating blade 4 are arranged in such a manner that the upper rotating blade 3 and the lower rotating blade 4 are shifted by a predetermined distance in the feed direction.

As shown in FIG. 3, the upper rotary blade 3 is provided integrally with one end of a shaft member 3a.
Are rotatably supported by a sliding member 31 slidably arranged in a vertical direction via a bearing 31a.

Further, below the upper rotating blade 3,
A covered electric wire guide member (coated electric wire guide) 32 fixed on the base 6 is disposed.

A guide groove 33 is formed on the upper surface of the covered electric wire guide member 32. The guide groove 33 is formed in a substantially V-shape deeper than the guide groove 12 of the lower drive roller 1, and the upper rotary blade 3 is formed in the guide groove 33.
Are arranged so as to protrude.

The sliding member 31 is urged downward by a spring 34 as a resilient member, whereby the upper rotary blade 3 is urged so as to protrude into the guide groove 33, and The upper rotary blade 3 moves upward against the urging force of the spring 34 so as to correspond to the coated electric wires A having different diameters.

A sprocket 34 is integrally provided at the other end of the shaft member 3a of the upper rotary blade 3, and a chain connected to a driving device described later is wound around the sprocket 34.

As shown in FIG. 4, the lower rotary blade 4 is provided integrally with one end of a shaft member 4a.
The bearing 41 is fixed to a support member 41 fixed on the base 6.
It is rotatably supported via a.

On the upper side facing the lower rotary blade 4,
A covered wire guide roller (covered wire guide) 42 is disposed.

The covered electric wire guide roller 42 includes a shaft member 42a.
At one end. The shaft member 42a is rotatably supported via a bearing 43a by a sliding member 43 arranged slidably in the up-down direction on the support member 41.

A guide groove 44 is formed on the peripheral surface of the covered electric wire guide roller 42. The guide groove 44 is formed in the same substantially V-shape as the guide groove 33, and the peripheral edge of the lower rotary blade 4 protrudes into the guide groove 44.

The sliding member 43 is urged downward by a spring 45 serving as a resilient member, whereby the lower rotary blade 4 is urged so as to protrude into the guide groove 44, and the spring 45 is urged downward. By moving the covered electric wire guide roller 42 upward against the urging force of 45, it is configured to correspond to the covered electric wires A having different diameters.

Sprockets 46 and 47 are provided integrally with the other end of the shaft member 4a of the lower rotary blade 4 and the other end of the shaft member 42a of the covered electric wire guide roller 42, respectively. Is wound around a chain connected to a drive device described later.

A feeding auxiliary device 7 is provided on a base 6 on the upstream side where the lower drive roller 1 and the upper roller 2 are arranged.

The feeding assist device 7 is composed of a guide cylinder 71 having a guide hole 71a for guiding the covered electric wire A, and four guide rollers 72, 73, 74, 75.

Guide grooves 72a to 75a for guiding the covered electric wire A are formed on the peripheral surface of each of the guide rollers 72 to 75, and two guide grooves 72a to 75a are arranged vertically and shifted in the feed direction.

One guide roller 73 arranged on the upper part
Are urged downward by a spring 76, and the guide roller 73 is moved upward against the urging force of the spring 76, so as to correspond to the covered electric wires A having different diameters. The coating material separating tool 5 is provided downstream of the lower rotary blade 4 via a guide member 53. The covering material separating tool 5 separates the covering material A1 and the core wire A2 of the covered electric wire A in which the covering material A1 has been cut by the upper rotary blade 3 and the lower rotary blade 4, and is disposed vertically. It is composed of a pair of separation rollers 51 and 52 rotatably supported on the base 6 via members.

Guide grooves 51a and 52a are formed on the peripheral surfaces of these separation rollers 51 and 52. Guide groove 51
a and 52a guide the core wire A2 in the lower groove portion,
The coating material A1 is formed in two stages so as to be guided by the upper groove.

Accordingly, the core wire A2 held in the lower groove portion of the separation rollers 51 and 52 is guided in the forward feed direction as it is, and the flexible covering material is once slightly raised by the upper groove of the separation roller 51 in front. After being guided, the next separation roller 52
It is configured to be guided downward by a groove at the upper part of.

The guide member 53 is for preventing the covered electric wire A from escaping upward, and has a guide groove 53a for guiding the covered electric wire.

Further, a cutting device 8 is provided below the coating material separating tool 5 via a chute 81.

The cutting device 8 cuts the coating material A1 peeled from the core wire to a predetermined length, and includes a rotary blade 81 and a fixed blade 82. The rotary blade 81 is driven by a driving device (not shown). By rotating, the coating material A1 is cut by the rotary blade 81 and the fixed blade 82. The cutting device 8 is fixed to the side of the base 6.

The reference numeral 35 shown in FIG.
The holding spring for holding the covered electric wire A is provided in the guide groove 33 at the tip of the holding spring 35.

FIG. 5 shows a drive system of the coating material / core wire separating and collecting apparatus. In FIG. 5, reference numeral 91 denotes a driving sprocket connected to a driving shaft 91a of a driving device such as a driving motor (not shown) arranged on the base 6, and 92 is rotatable to the side of the covered electric wire guide roller. Supported driven sprockets, these drive sprockets 91,
The driven sprocket 92 and each of the aforementioned sprockets 1
A chain 93 is wound around 3, 34, 46, 47, and each of the sprockets 13, 34, 46, 47 is configured to rotate in the arrow direction by the rotation of the driving sprocket 91 in the arrow direction. I have.

That is, the lower drive roller 1, the upper rotary blade 3, the lower rotary blade 4, and the covered electric wire guide roller 42 are rotated by a single driving device.

The chain 93 is stretched with a predetermined clearance so as to follow up and down movements of the upper rotary blade 3 and the covered electric wire guide roller 42.

The covering material of the covered electric wire constructed as described above
In the core wire separating and collecting apparatus, each component is compactly provided on the base 6 as described above.

Next, a description will be given of the operation of separating and recovering the sheathing material and the core wire by the sheathing material / core wire separating and collecting device of the sheathed electric wire.

One end of the used and appropriately collected insulated wire A is inserted into the guide hole 71a of the guide cylinder 71, and is held vertically by the guide rollers 72, 73, 74 and 75, and is connected to the lower drive roller 1. Guide between upper rollers 2.

Then, by the rotation of the lower drive roller 1, the coated electric wire A is first cut off from the upper part by the upper rotary blade 3 and then cut off from the lower part by the lower rotary blade 4. The core wire and the coating material A1 cut from above and below are passed through the guide member 53 and the coating material separating tool 5
And the covering material separating device 5 provides a highly rigid core wire A2.
Is guided forward as it is, collected by winding or the like, and the flexible covering material A1 is guided downward, cut into a predetermined length by the cutting device 8, and discharged.

In this manner, the covering material A1 is cut from above and below by the upper rotary blade 3 and the lower rotary blade 4, so that the coated electric wire A can be coated regardless of the material of the coating material A1.
1 and the core wire A2 can be smoothly and continuously separated and collected.

Further, since the upper rotary blade 3 and the lower rotary blade 4 are arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the feeding direction, after the upper rotary blade 3 has sufficiently cut the upper rotary blade 3 from above, the lower rotary blade 4 has Can be fully dissected,
Peeling of the coating material A1 from the core wire A2 can be performed reliably and smoothly.

Further, the upper roller 2, the upper rotary blade 3, and the covered electric wire guide roller 42 are provided with springs 22, 34, 45.
Therefore, it is possible to smoothly cope with coated electric wires having different diameters.

The order of arrangement of the feed roller and the rotary blade in the feed direction is not limited to the present embodiment, but may be set appropriately and disposed on the base 6.

Although the coating material separating tool 5 is constituted by the pair of separation rollers 51 and 52, the invention is not limited to this, and any material may be used as long as it can separate the core wire A2 and the coating material A1 whose torn symmetrical position.

[0053]

As described above, according to the apparatus for separating and recovering a covered wire and a core wire of the covered electric wire according to the first aspect of the present invention, a pair of feed rollers for holding the covered electric wire and feeding it in the feed direction are provided. Consisting of a pair of rotary blades that cut off the covering material of the insulated wire from the symmetrical position, and a covering material separating tool that separates the covering material cut by the pair of rotating blades from the core wire, and the covering material is symmetrical by the pair of rotating blades. By splitting from the position, the coated electric wire can be smoothly and continuously separated and collected into the coating material and the core wire regardless of the difference in the material of the coating material.

According to the apparatus for separating and recovering the covered wire and the core wire according to the second aspect of the present invention, the pair of rotary blades are arranged at a predetermined distance from each other in the feed direction, and face the rotary blades. By providing each, after sufficiently severing the coating material by one of the rotary blades, it is possible to satisfactorily perform the slicing from the symmetrical position by the other rotary blade and the coating material from the core wire. Peeling can be performed reliably and smoothly.

According to the apparatus for separating and recovering a covered wire and a core wire of the covered electric wire of the third aspect, the pair of rotary blades or the covered electric wire guide is urged in the clamping direction of the covered electric wire by the resilient member to thereby reduce the diameter. Can be smoothly handled.

According to the sheathing / core wire separating and collecting apparatus of the fourth aspect, the feed roller and the rotary blade are rotatable by a single driving device, so that the entire apparatus is lightweight and compact. it can.

According to the sheathing / core wire separating / recovering device of the fifth aspect, the cutting device for cutting the sheathing material separated from the core wire by the sheathing material separating tool is provided, so that the sheathing wire separated from the core wire is provided. Post-processing such as material disposal can be facilitated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway side view showing the entire configuration of a sheathing / core wire separating and collecting apparatus for a sheathed electric wire according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line XX in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line YY in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line ZZ in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a drive system of a sheathing / core wire separating and collecting apparatus for a sheathed electric wire.

[Description of Signs] 1 Lower drive roller 2 Upper roller 3 Upper rotary blade 4 Lower rotary blade 5 Coating material separating tool 8 Cutting device 32 Coated wire guide member (Coated wire guide) 42 Coated wire guide roller (Coated wire guide) 22, 34, 45 Spring (elastic member) A Insulated wire A1 Insulation material A2 Core wire

Claims (5)

[Claims] An apparatus for separating and recovering a covering material and a core wire of a covered electric wire, comprising: a pair of feeding rollers for sandwiching the covered electric wire and feeding in a feed direction; A sheathing / core wire separating and collecting apparatus for a covered electric wire, comprising: a pair of rotary blades to be torn; and a sheathing material separating tool for separating a sheathing material cut by the pair of rotary blades from a core wire. 2. A covering material for a covered electric wire according to claim 1, wherein said pair of rotary blades are arranged at a predetermined distance from each other in a feed direction, and covered wire guides are provided to face said rotary blades.・ Core wire separation and recovery device. 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pair of rotary blades or the covered wire guide is urged by a resilient member in a direction in which the covered wire is clamped. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the feed roller and the rotary blade are rotatable by a single driving device. 5. A cutting device for cutting a coating material separated from a core wire by the coating material separating tool.
5. A device for separating and recovering a covered wire / core wire of a covered electric wire according to 3 or 4.