JPS5930617B2 - Ingot alignment and delivery device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention is an ingot alignment and delivery method in which ingots that are continuously cast in a casting machine and delivered in two rows are arranged in sets of a predetermined number of ingots, and each set of ingots is sent out in sequence. It is related to the device.

Conventionally, a device has been developed that groups a predetermined number of ingots and stacks each ingot group in multiple stages.
This type of apparatus is comprised of an apparatus part that arranges a predetermined number of ingots discharged from a casting machine into sets, and an apparatus member that sequentially stacks the arranged ingot sets.

The aligning device portion is configured to be applied only to ingots that are discharged from a casting machine in which the advancing direction of the mold and the longitudinal direction of the ingot are the same.

However, some casting machines have the direction in which the mold advances and the longitudinal direction of the ingots are at right angles, so conventional equipment can be used as is to stack the ingots taken out from these types of casting machines as described above. Therefore, it is essential to develop a new alignment device corresponding to the above-mentioned alignment device part.

In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide an ingot alignment and delivery device that is applicable to ingots being delivered from a casting machine in which the advancing direction of the mold and the longitudinal direction of the ingot are perpendicular to each other.

The present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment in which the invention is applied to an ingot stacking apparatus shown in the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, reference numeral 1 denotes an ingot alignment and delivery device, and this ingot alignment and delivery device 1 is arranged at the rear of the casting machine 2. As shown in FIGS.

This casting machine 2 has a plurality of molds 4 arranged in two rows on a conveyor 3 at regular intervals and with the longitudinal direction of the ingots perpendicular to the advancing direction of the molds 4.

The mold 4 attached to the conveyor 3 is used to continuously cast molten zinc, cool it, and solidify it as it advances toward the casting machine head 5 side.

An ingot guide member 8 that guides the ingot 7 downward is attached to the machine frame 6 of the casting machine head 5, and a receiving member 9 is attached to the lower end of the ingot guide member 8 and can swing vertically. The receiving member 9 is attached via an operating rod 12 to a rod 11 of a cylinder 10 attached to the machine frame 6, and is swung vertically by the cylinder 10 and guided by the ingot guide member 8. The four ingots 7a, 7b, 7c, and 7d are received and delivered to a delivery member 13 located below.

The receiving member 9 is provided with a plurality of rollers 9' on which the ingot 7 can slide.

This delivery member 13 is pivotally supported at its intermediate portion by the machine frame 14, and is attached via an operating rod 17 to a rod 16 of a cylinder 15 attached to the machine frame 14, so that it can swing vertically by the operation of the cylinder 15. It is arranged on the rocking plate 18 that is

The delivery member 13 disposed on this swing plate 18 is connected to the swing plate 1
The four ingots 7a and 7b are attached to the tip of a rod 20 of a cylinder 19 attached to , 7c, and 7d are pushed out onto the extraction conveyor 21.

As shown in FIG.
A plurality of chains 22 and 2 are installed.
The scraper plates 23 and 23' of the ingots 2' are moved by driving the motor 24 while bringing the end faces of the pair of ingots 7at7b and 7ct7d into contact with each other.

Further, a pair of cylinders 25 and 25' are attached to the machine frame 55 at the terminal end of the extraction conveyor 21 and on one side sandwiching the extraction conveyor 21. 'The extrusion plate 27 is attached to the rod 26°26'.
, 27' are attached, and these extrusion plates 27, 27'
' is the ingots 7a, 7b, 7c which are at the stop position of the extraction conveyor 21 due to the operation of the cylinders 25, 25'.
, 7d are pushed forward.

Further, a pair of turntables 28, 28' are arranged on the opposite side of the extrusion plates 27, 27', and the turntable 28' is located near the extraction conveyor 21. , the other turntable 28 is placed at a position further away from this.

Therefore, the rods 26 of the cylinders 25, 25',
26', the rod 26 has a longer stroke than the rod 26'.

These pair of turntables 28, 28' are configured to turn 90 degrees by rotary actuators 29, 29', and the direction of the ingots 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d placed on the turntables 2B, 2B' is adjusted. It is supposed to change.

A stopper member 33 is installed on the opposite side of the turntable 28 from the extraction conveyor 21, and is attached to the tip of a rod 32 of a cylinder 31 attached to the machine frame 30, and is capable of reciprocating in the horizontal direction. 28'
A pair of cylinders 35, 35' are attached to the machine frame 34 on the opposite side, and extrusion plates 37, 37' are attached to rods 36° 36' of the pair of cylinders 35, 35'.

And these extrusion plates 37, 37' are cylinders 35, 35'
The pair of ingots 7a, 7b on the turntable 28 are pushed out onto the transfer line of the scraping conveyor 38 by the operation of the ingots 7a, 7b on the turntable 28.

Furthermore, a scraping conveyor 38 is disposed in front of the turntable 28', and this scraping conveyor 38 is arranged directly above the turntable 28' and is a pair of chain chains provided with a plurality of scraping plates 39. 40, this pair of chains 40 is rotated by a motor 41, and the chain 4
A scraper plate 39 attached to the ingot 7 is brought into contact with the end faces of the pair of ingots 7 to transfer the ingots 7.

At the terminal end of the scraping conveyor 38, a cylinder 43 is attached to the machine frame 42 on one side sandwiching the scraping conveyor 38, and the tip of the rod 44 of this cylinder 43 is provided with an extrusion plate. 45 is attached, and when the cylinder 43 is operated, it reciprocates in the horizontal direction and pushes the ingot 7 forward.

Further, on the other side of the scraping conveyor 38, a platform rotating box 47 is arranged which rotates the platform ingot by 180 degrees before feeding it into the piling case 46 in the case of a platform ingot.

This foot stand rotating box 47 is used to invert each of the four foot stand ingots located at the bottom of one stack to form a group of ingots having a fixed arrangement with the legs located at the bottom. It is.

The piling case 46 is the cylinder 4 attached to the machine frame 48.
It is attached to the rod 50 of 9 and can be moved up and down.

When the piling case 4fl ingot 7 stops, the cylinder 49 is operated and the piling case 46 is lowered to a position directly above the discharge conveyor 51.

When the ingot 7 is lowered onto the carry-out conveyor 51 in this manner, the bottom plate 54 attached to the rod 53 of the cylinder 52 is pulled out and the ingot 7 is placed on the carry-out conveyor 51.

To stack the ingots 7, the A-type array and the B-type array shown in FIG. 6 are stacked alternately, preferably in an even number of stages.
A two-tier stacked ingot group is made, which is weighed, packed, and shipped as one set.

The bottom layer of one stacked ingot group is an ingot having legs cast integrally with the ingot group for convenience of transportation and packaging.

Next, the operation of the above will be explained.

The molds 4, which are attached to the conveyor 3 of the casting machine 2 and arranged in two rows with their longitudinal directions perpendicular to the direction of travel, are continuously cast with molten zinc, cooled, and solidified while advancing toward the casting machine head 5. come.

On the side of the casting machine head 5, the ingots 7ay7b, 7c, and 7d are reversed while being guided by the ingot guide member 8 and placed on the receiving member 9 below.

This receiving member 9 has four ingots) 7a j rb.

When 7 c and 7 d are placed, the cylinder 10 is actuated to the side that retracts the rod 11 by an electric signal from the casting machine 2, whereby the receiving member 9 is tilted and is normally pushed up into the cylinder 15. It connects with the rocking plate 18 in an inclined position, resulting in an ingot? a, 7b, 7c, 7
d is supported by the delivery member 13 and the cylinder 19 is connected to the rod 2.
0 is transferred to the rocking plate 18, and then the cylinder 15 is moved to the retracting side of the rod 16, which together with the rocking plate 18 reaches a horizontal position.
Furthermore, the cylinder 19 is operated in the opposite manner to the above-mentioned operation, so that it is delivered onto the extraction conveyor 21.

After the receiving member 9 transfers the ingot to the swing plate 18, it returns to the raised position by the reverse operation of the cylinder 10 and waits for the next ingot. After being delivered to the extraction conveyor 21, the cylinder 15 is operated in the opposite manner to the above to return to the inclined position and wait.

The ingots transferred to the extraction conveyor 21 are moved by the motor 24
As a result, the rear ends of the inlets 7a and 7b are pushed by the scraping plate 23, and the rear ends of the inlets 7c and 7d are pushed by the scraping plate 23', and they are transferred to the terminal end of the extraction conveyor 21 and stopped.

The stopped ingot 7 a t 7 b is the cylinder 25
operates to push out the rod 26, thereby pushing out the pushing plate 2.
7 and transferred onto the turntable 28. At this time, the cylinder 31 is actuated to make the stopper member 33 protrude. When a, 7b are stopped at predetermined positions on the turntable 28, the cylinder 31 is operated in the opposite manner to the above to retract the stopper member 33.

In addition, in the ingots 7c and 7d, the cylinder 25' is connected to the rod 2.
By operating 6' in the extrusion side, the sheet is pushed by the extrusion plate 27' and transferred onto the turntable 28'.

Note that the extrusion plates 27, 27' transfer the ingots to the turntables 28, 28', and then transfer the ingots to the cylinders 25, 25'.
The retracted position is returned to the retracted position by the operation in the opposite direction to that described above, and the next ingot is placed on standby.

Ingot 7a on turntable 28, 28'.

7b17C17d is rotary actuator 29°29
9 in the clockwise direction in FIG.
The ingots 7a and 7b on the turntable 28 are rotated by 0 degrees, and the cylinders 35 and 35' actuate to push out the rods 36 and 36', so that the ingots 7a and 7b are pushed out from the extrusion plate 3.
7, 37' and transferred onto the transfer line of the scraping conveyor 38.

The motor 41 then operates to operate the scraping conveyor 38, thereby removing the ingots (7c) on the turntable 28'.
The rear end of t7d is pushed forward by the scraping plate 39, and when it moves forward slightly, its tip comes into contact with the rear ends of ingots 7a and 7b and pushes them, and in this way, the ingot? a.

7b, 7c, and 7d are moved a predetermined distance by the scraper plate 39 and then stopped.

In this process, an A-type array was formed.

Next, ingots 7a'57b' were cast following ingots 7a, 7b, 7c, and 7d.
17 C'.

7d' is the turntable 28°28' as described above.
When the ingots 70' and 7d' on the turntable 28' are placed on the turntable 28', the ingots 70' and 7d' on the turntable 28' are rotated 90 degrees in the same manner as described above by the operation of the rotary actuator 29'. a'.

This time, the ingot 7b' is not rotated, but the ingot 7a' is first pushed by the extrusion plate 37 by the operation of the cylinder 35 and transferred onto the transfer line of the scraping conveyor 38, and at this time the position of the ingot 7b' is shifted. To prevent this, the cylinder 31 is actuated to hold the inlet (7 b') by the protruding stopper member 33.

When the ingot 7a' is transferred, the scraping conveyor 38 restarts its operation, thereby ingots 7a, 7b,
γc and 7d are moved forward again by the scraping plate 39, and the ingots 7c' and 7d' move forward with their rear ends pushed by the scraping plate 39' and come into contact with the ingot 7a'.
In this way, 7a', 7c', 7d'
is transported a predetermined distance by the scraper plate 39' and then temporarily stopped.

Then, the inbot) 7b' is then moved to the stopper member 33.
In the state in which the holding by the cylinder 35' is released, it is pushed by the extrusion plate 37' by the operation of the cylinder 35' and transferred onto the transfer line of the scraping conveyor 38 behind the scraping plate 39', and then the scraping conveyor 38 is moved again. operatively, the ingots 7a/, 7c', 7d' are moved by the scraper 39' and the ingots 7b' are moved by the scraper 3g,
They are each transferred and stopped at a predetermined position, and in this process a B-type array is formed.

At this time, the ingots 7a, 7b, 7c, and 7a are transferred to the terminal end of the scraping conveyor 38 by the scraping plate 39, stopped, and separated from the scraping plate 39.

Ingots 7 in an A-shaped arrangement and with legs stopped at the end of the scraping conveyor 38 a t 7 b 17 c 1
7d, when the cylinder 43 operates to push out the rod 44, it is pushed by the extrusion plate 45 and inserted into the rotating platform box 47, and the rotating box 47 is rotated 180 degrees to be turned upside down. Legs facing down, then cylinder 4
3 is further actuated, it is transferred to the piling case 46.

Ingot 7a accommodated in piling case 46.

7b, 7c, and 7d are lowered to a predetermined height directly above the delivery conveyor 51 by the cylinder 49 operating to push out the rod 50, and then the cylinder 52 is moved to push out the rod 50.
3 to the extrusion side, the bottom plate 54 is pulled out and invoked) 7a, 7b.

7c and 7d are placed at predetermined positions on the carry-out conveyor 510.

Next B-type array ingot 7 a') 7 b'>
7 C't7d' is the scraping conveyor 38 as described above.
from the terminal end of the piling case 4 through the pivot box 47.
However, since these ingots do not have legs, they are not rotated 180 degrees by the leg rotating box 47 (they pass through it, and are transferred from the pile case 46 to the unloading conveyor 51 as described above). the ingot 7a,
It is placed on 7b, 7c, and 7d.

As described above, the ingots are formed into a set of four ingots from the casting machine 2, and each set is sequentially formed into an A-type arrangement and a B-type arrangement, and is sequentially stacked on the carry-out conveyor 51.
Every time two layers are stacked, the conveyor 51 is driven to carry them out to the next process.

The operating order and timing of each member mentioned above are as follows:
It is electrically controlled by a control device equipped with a conventional detector and the like.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the explanation was applied to a casting machine in which the advancing direction of the mold and the longitudinal direction of the ingot were at right angles.
This invention can be applied to a casting machine in which the advancing direction of the mold and the longitudinal direction of the ingot are the same.
It goes without saying that this invention can be made very easily by changing the orientation of each member as described below, and that the present invention can also be modified in various ways, including changes in the number and arrangement of each ingot set, as well as various modifications and changes to the above embodiments. Nor.

Since this invention is constructed as described above, ingots are continuously cast in a casting machine in which the direction of movement of the mold is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the ingots and are carried out in two rows. Furthermore, not only can each of these ingot sets be sent out sequentially, but it also has excellent effects such as being applicable to ingots being delivered from a casting machine in which the direction of advance of the mold is the same as the longitudinal direction of the ingots. It is something that you have.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an ingot stacking device, FIG. 2 is a front view taken from the line ■-■ in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a front view taken from the line ■-■ in FIG. 1. 4 is a front view taken from line IV-IV in Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is a side view taken from line ■-V in Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the arrangement of ingots. be. 1... Ingot alignment and sending device, 2... Casting machine, 4
... reconnaissance type, 7... ingot, 9... receiving member, 1
3... Delivery member, 18... Rocking plate, 21... Extraction conveyor, 23... Scraping plate, 27... Extrusion plate, 28...
...Turntable, 33...Stopper member, 38.
- Scraping conveyor, 39... Scraping plate, 46... Piling case, 47... Leg stand rotating box, 51... Carrying out conveyor, 54... Bottom plate.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An ingot alignment and delivery device that arranges a predetermined number of ingots that are continuously cast in a casting machine and is carried out in two rows, and then sequentially sends out each ingot group, and is located adjacent to the casting machine. , a delivery member is provided to receive one set of ingots from the casting machine and delivered to a placement member, two extrusion members having different extrusion lengths are provided on one side of the placement member, and the other A turntable is provided at the front extrusion position of each of the extrusion members on the side, a conveying member is provided in series with the turntable of these two turntables that is close to the placement member, and the other turntable is provided with a conveyance member on the table. An ingot alignment and delivery device, comprising a plurality of extrusion members each of which can be operated separately and is a member for transferring the ingots onto the conveying member.