US2928147A - Agitatorless foundry shooting device - Google Patents

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US2928147A
US2928147A US628748A US62874856A US2928147A US 2928147 A US2928147 A US 2928147A US 628748 A US628748 A US 628748A US 62874856 A US62874856 A US 62874856A US 2928147 A US2928147 A US 2928147A
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  • Pneumatic moulding machines for filling mould and core boxes with mould sand are known in the most varied forms of construction, and a distinction is made between two basically different types of machines and modes of operation. These are true blowing machines, which work on the mixing or blowing principle with a mixture of air and sand on the one hand, and on the other hand sandshooting machines, in which the mould sand is simply forced abruptly into the mould box without any particular turbulence or thorough mixing with air. The characteristic features of both modes of operation are explained in the United States Patent No. 2,793,409.
  • blowing machines it is known to allow the sand container, which is provided with a comparatively narrow central blowing nozzle, to widen out in a taper towards the bottom, so as to facilitate the sliding down of the sand contents.
  • the sand container which is provided with a comparatively narrow central blowing nozzle
  • an interchangeable sand cartridge which is adapted to the size of the core to be produced and at the lower end of which is a widened portion or socket to bridge the apertures leading into the core mould and to effect a compression of the sand in the socket.
  • interchangeable nozzles and shooting heads are also known which become wider towards the end resting on the mould box where they are closed by a perforated plate, the discharge apertures or discharge slots in which are adapted in position and size to the particular core mould.
  • the above means are preferably associated with other means, known per se, which cause the abrupt acceleration of the compact mass of sand in the actual sand container, with the minimum expenditure of pneumatic energy.
  • Such a means is the use of a compressed air chamber, directly adjacent the sand container, to store up ramming air directly before the sand container.
  • An insert which is mounted with clearance in the actual sand storage chamber, and which facilitates the acceleration of the compact mass of sand to be forced into the mould box or core box and is preferably provided with narrow slots.
  • a further means is a blast valve, of large area, mounted between the compressed air storage chamber and the sand container, for the abrupt release of ramming air stored up in the compressed air chamber, which valve preferably comprises a' pneumatic piston for its abrupt control.
  • such a shooting head for a sand-shooting machine for producing foundry cores and foundry moulds which becomes wider, at least on one side and preferably on all sides at the end facing the mould box or core box, has an insert which is mounted with clearance in the widened portion of the shooting head and which facilitates the ejection of the compact filling of sand.
  • the further details of the invention relate to such devices, namely, the sand-shooting machines constructed with fixed shooting heads on the one hand and the detachable shooting heads for sand-shooting machines on the other hand.
  • the insert according to the invention which facilitates the ejection of the compact filling of sand, may act in various ways, for example as a vibrator insert. Nevertheless, it has been found advantageous to provide, in the widened portion, an insert provided with small perfora-' tions, at the same time forming a preferably annular gap for the lateral compression of the compact mass of sand present in the widened portion during the abrupt accelera-
  • the annular gap may be either angular, for example rectangular, or circular.
  • Narrow slots preferably serve as small perforations, though here they are preferably arranged horizontally.
  • the admission of air laterally into the gap round the widened portion is preferably effected at the upper end of the insert in the widened portion.
  • at least one, and preferably a plurality of air admission ports, which are distributed right round, may be provided at the upper end of the widened portion.
  • compressed-air ports or compressed air passages may be provided for it which connect the annular chamber of the sand container shaft to the preferably annular (angled or round) gap round the widened portion in such a manner that the compressed air entering the annular shaft chamber can also enter the gap round the widened portion through the ports.
  • At least one, preferably a plurality of passages, arranged distributed right round may be provided for it, to take off compressed air from the annular sand container chamber for introduction into the gap round the widened portion of the shooting head.
  • the sand container may be equipped with a compressed air distributor passage, for example by turning or milling, for the passage of the compressed air from the annular chamber of the sand container into the gap round the shooting head.
  • a compressed-air distributing passage may, however, also be provided additionally, or solely on the end of the shooting head at which the shooting head is held by the sand container.
  • Annular seals are used for the lateral sealing of the compressed air passage leading from the annular chamber of the sand container to the gap round the shooting head.
  • One or more cleaning windows which can be tightly closed, are provided for the actual cleaning of the gap formed by the outer wall of the widened portion and the insert in the widened portion, which windows may conveniently be provided in the outer wall of the widened portion.
  • the widened portion of the sand container or of the shooting head may be of any desired shape. From the point of view of work and use, a rectangular crosssection has proved advantageous, as has a circular crosssection in many cases. It also proved an advantage to construct both the wall of the widened portion and the insert provided therein in the form of a truncated pyramid or cone. A trough-shaped construction of the insert has been found to be advantageous.
  • the closing of the widened portion may be eifected by means of a plate having specific discharge apertures which is changed for each particular application. It is an advantage however, to use a perforated plate, known per se, which may comprise air extraction passages, for the closing.
  • a multi-layer perforated plate is preferably used comprising an interchangeable intermediate disc which only permits the emergence of sand at the particular points desired and covers the remaining holes in the perforated plate.
  • the lower layer of the perforated plate may be pivoted about a pin and held by retaining screws.
  • Figure 2 shows a modified shooting head constructed in accordancewith the invention, in section.
  • the column 3 is here constructed in the form of a compressed-air receiver and is equipped with a comparatively small compressed-air connection 4.
  • the head 5 of the column is constructed in the form of a compressedair storage chamber and serves to store a limited amount of ramming air.
  • the blast valve 6 which has a large area is abruptly, controlled by means of a pneumatic piston (not illustrated) and permits an equally abrupt admission of the compressed air stored up in the compressed-air storage chamber 5, through the upper annular chamber 7, into the interior of the sand container 8, in which an insert 10 is provided which is equipped with narrow slots 9 and which defines an annular chamber 11 between itself and the wall of the sand container 8.
  • the insert 10 is protected by a partition 12 which forces the greater part of the incoming compressed air to enter the interior of the insert 10 from above through the upper horizontal slots 13, and to act abruptly on the head of the compact mass of sand filling it.
  • One or more holes 14 provided in the partition 12 allow a minor proportion of compressed air to enter the annular chamber 11 from above 'as a result of which the air contained therein is compressed and through the slots 9 in the insert compact column. of sand is radially compressed laterally as a result of which its abrupt acceleration is facilitated.
  • the sand container 8 may be closed at, the top by a sand charging slide 15 through which sand may be charged into the chamber 17 from the trough 16.
  • the sand chamber 17 comprises a widening 18 on all sides, in which an insert ll9is likewise provided, which leaves a gap 21 between itself and the wall 20 of the widened portion, which gap is here annular.
  • Narrow horizontal slots 23, similar to the vertical slots 9, are provided in the side walls of the insert 19.
  • the shooting head 29 is clamped by means of retaining screws 30 at its upper end 31to the lower end 32 of the sand container 8 which here again comprises an insert 10 provided with narrow vertical slots 9 and leaving an annular chamber 11 between itself and the sand container 8.
  • the shooting head 29 again has a portion 18 which is widened on all sides, and in which an insert 19 is likewise provided which leaves a gap 21 between itself and the wall of the widened portion, which gap'is here annular.
  • Narrow horizontal slots 23 similar to the vertical slots 9 are provided in the side walls of the insert 19.
  • the trough-likeinsert 19 which is constructed in the form of a truncated pyramid, is here fixed to the wall 20 of the widened portion 18 of the shooting head 29 by means of a plurality of screws33, only two of which are. shown in the drawing however.
  • the insert 19, which is provided with the small perforations 23, consists, like the insert 10 in the sand container, of thin sheet metal and it may be shaped, for example chine of the kind employing compressed air for ramming cores and filling mold boxes with molding sand substan tially free of entrained air and including a frame structure including a sand storage container of substantially uniform cross section having at its top a wide air inlet for admitting a supply of compressed ramming air to act abruptly upon the top of the supply of sand and an open lower end, said head comprising fastening means for securing the head to said open lower container end, a chamberfor a supplyof sand to be compactly rammed having at its top a sand inlet opening and a laterally extended and enlarged hollow sand distributing base portion expanding and enlarging said storage container substantially abruptly atj jthe lower open end thereof, a bottom plate having at 1 least one sand outlet therein, a lining member having per
  • the sand container 8 likewise comprises air passages 35 which are distributed round its lower end 32 and which are interconnected by means of a compressed-air distributor passage 36.
  • the passages 22in the shooting head 29 may. likewise be interconnected by means of a corresponding compressed-air distributor passage.
  • ,Such compressed-airdistributor passages may be annular millings or turnings about 2 to 3 mm. deep.
  • Such acompressed-air distributor passage 36 may also be machined subsequently in the lower end 32 of a sand-shooting machine which is in service, by means of a simple milling device.
  • the shoot: ing head 29 comprises two annular seals 37 which seal off the compressed-air path 35-36-22 from the annular chamber 11 in the sand container to the gap 21 round the shooting head laterally. As a result, during the abrupt.
  • the proportion of compressed air entering the annular chamber 11 of .the sand container from above passes through the passages 35 and the com pressed-air distributor passage 36 and then through the passages 22 from above into the gap, 21 round the widened portion and compresses the compact sand present in the widened portion 18 laterally through the narrow slots 23, and as a result facilitates the abrupt acceleration of the compact mass of sand present in the shooting'head 29 or in its widened portion 18.
  • a perforated plate 24 which is here of the multi-layer type andwhich comprises air extraction nozzles 38 and air extraction passages 39, only the wall thereof, and means for supplying pressure air to the inner space between said base portion wall and said perforated lining member to propel by the impact of pressure air acting through the perforations of said lining member the compact sand load contained in the hollow space defined by said sand distribuing base porion during the ramming operation and to eject the. said load through the outlet in the bottom plate.
  • a head according to claim 1 wherein said bottomplate of said base portion is composed of at least two layers, each having a plurality of sand outlets in latticed arrangement and an intermediate exchangeableshield to obturate selected sand outlets in said layers.
  • a foundry shooting-head according to claim 1 wherein said means for supplying pressure air to said inner space comprise a container wall portion including I at least one opening at the upper end ofsaid inner space two of each of which are illustrated.
  • the multi-layer perforated plate 24 comprises an intermediate disc 25 which lustrated.
  • Such a shooting head 29 can be used for the most varied tasks and also for the production of moulds and is thus a universal shooting head which replaces many of the special shooting heads which were hitherto constructed in the most varied forms and had to be kept in stock.
  • a foundry shooting head for a foundry shooting mabetween said wall of the base portion and said lining member for supplyingcompressedair into said space from the top thereof.
  • a head according to claim 5 wherein said space is an annular space having several openings circumferentially arranged at the upper end of said space facing the top of the container for supplying the compressed air into said space in a flow from the top toward the base thereof.
  • annular air conduit is a one-sidedly open channel grooved in the top face of said head.
  • a foundry shooting machine of the kind employing compressed air for ramming cores and filling mold boxes with mold sand substantially free of entrained air said machine comprising a frame structure including a sand chamber having a wide air inlet at the top thereof for admitting 'a supply of compressed ramming air to act abruptly upon the top of a supply of sand in the chamher and a perforated lining insert disposed in said chamber spaced apart from the inner wall thereof, said insert defining the chamber space available for a supply of sand to be compactly rammed, the space defined by the inner chamber wall and the insert including at least one an op'enin'g at the upper part of said space for supplying compressed air into said space from the top thereof, a storage chamber for pressure air positoned near said air inlet of said sand chamber and communicating therewith and with said opening leading into the space between the insert and the chamber wall, an air inlet shooting valve positioned near said air inlet for controlling the rapid admission of compressed air from said storage
  • a machine according to claim 11 wherein said space between the chamber wall and the insert has several openings circumferentially arranged at said base end of said space for supplying compressed air from said space to said shooting head to propel and eject the compact sand load contained in said headduring the ramming operation.
  • said machine comprising a sand container havingan upper portionof uniform cross section and a widely flared open ended base portion, a first perforatedliner fitted in said container portion of uniform cross-section spaced apart from the container wall to define a first circumferential duct, a second perforated liner fitted in said flared container portion spaced apart, equidistant from the container wall to define a second circumferential duct, conduit means interconnecting said ducts, a wideaperture air inlet valve arranged near the top of the container and communicating therewith, and air pressure conduit means communicating with said air inlet valve and said first duct for supplying pressure.
  • A; machine according to claim 15 wherein said container comprises two sections, one constituting said portion of uniform cross-section and the other said flared portion, and fastening means for detachably securing together said two portions.
  • conduit means comprise several air conduits circumferentially arranged between said ducts and defining a circular communication between them, surrounding the interior or" said sand chamber.
  • a foundry shooting machine according to claim 15 wherein the perforations in said first liner and in said second liner are in the form of narrow slots.
  • a foundry shooting machine wherein the; narrow slots in said first liner are vertically arranged and the narrow slots in said second liner are horizontally arranged.

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US3187401A (en) * 1963-02-28 1965-06-08 Harbison Walker Refractories Feeding system for a brick press
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CN104439110A (zh) * 2014-11-14 2015-03-25 苏州明志科技有限公司 一种射芯机的射砂排气降噪方法及机构

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