US3640211A - Hydraulic device for moving in translation the pressing element of a press or the like - Google Patents

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US3640211A
US3640211A US886646A US3640211DA US3640211A US 3640211 A US3640211 A US 3640211A US 886646 A US886646 A US 886646A US 3640211D A US3640211D A US 3640211DA US 3640211 A US3640211 A US 3640211A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F15—FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL
    • F15B—SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F15B11/00—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor
    • F15B11/16—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor with two or more servomotors
    • F15B11/22—Synchronisation of the movement of two or more servomotors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B15/00—Details of, or accessories for, presses; Auxiliary measures in connection with pressing
    • B30B15/16—Control arrangements for fluid-driven presses
    • B30B15/24—Control arrangements for fluid-driven presses controlling the movement of a plurality of actuating members to maintain parallel movement of the platen or press beam

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  • ABSTRACT A device for driving in translatory motion the pressing element of a press, comprising a plurality of double-acting rams having their rods operatively connected to said pressing element said rams being hydraulically connected in series to each other, so that the driving of the piston of the first ram by a pressure fluid causes the rams to be fed by each other and the simultaneous sliding motions of their pistons, and means to keep constant the volume of hydraulic fluid contained in the front chamber of a ram and in the rear chamber of another ram with which it is connected.
  • the present invention relates essentially to a hydraulic device for moving in translation the pressing element of a press, shear or the like.
  • presses such as folding presses, punching or cutting presses, and so on, comprise a pressing member or element, movable in translation which is adapted to act upon a piece or part for example a metal sheet or foil or a shaping, forming or cutting tool, such a piece and such a tool bearing against or coming into engagement with a stationary member.
  • this pressing element consists of a table mounted on the frame of the press so as to be vertically slidable upwards and downwards and on this table is placed the material to be punched or cut, for example a leather sheet and upon this material is placed the cutting or punching tool.
  • the machine comprises at its upper portion a carriage movable in substantially horizontal translation and adapted to assume a working position wherein it is located above said table. To punch or cut the material, the table is driven in translation upwards until the tool abuts against the carriage in working position and moves into the material.
  • the movable table remains, during its displacement, strictly parallel to the carriage so that the cutting or punching pressure be uniformly distributed whatever the location of the tool on said table may be that is regardless of the place where the table and carriage receive the load.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device for driving such a pressing element, table or the like while keeping its parallelism strictly during the displacement thereof.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises n ram or jacklike actuators of the double-acting type comprising each one a front chamber and a rear chamber separated from each other by the piston, said actuators having their rods operatively connected to said pressing element and being hydraulically connected in series to each other, each actuator having its front chamber and its rear chamber connected to the rear chamber and to the front chamber, respectively, of the two actuators with which it is associated, the first and last actuators being connected to the hydraulic pressure circuit, the one by its front chamber and the other by its rear chamber, so that when the first actuator is fed with pressure fluid, each actuator feeds the following actuator, the pistons moving simultaneously.
  • means are provided for keeping constant the volume of hydraulic fluid contained within each front chamber of an actuator and the rear chamber of the actuator to which it is connected.
  • each piping or line connecting the front chamber of an actuator to the rear chamber of another actuator is connected to a hydraulic fluid tank through the medium of a valve provided to establish the communication between said line and said tank when said table reaches the end of its stroke.
  • This supply of makeup or replenishment fluid is intended to compensate for the leakages hence to maintain constant the mass of fluid which is moving between an actuator and its associated actuator and consequently to keep constant the strokes of the actuators.
  • the invention therefore enables to maintain a strict parallelism of the table during its displacement even in the case of a leakage of fluid in one or several actuators.
  • Another object of the invention consists in the various applications of said driving device to presses, shears or the like.
  • the invention is also directed by way of new industrial products to the punching presses provided with vertically movable working tables cooperating with a horizontally movable carriage, said table being driven by said hydraulic device.
  • FIG. 1 diagrammatically shows a driving device according to an embodiment of the invention, this device comprising four actuators shown partially in section;
  • FIG. 2 is an elevational view with parts broken away of a punching press fitted with the driving device shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 illustrates at a greater scale a section taken upon the line III-III OF FIG. 2.
  • the device according to the invention comprises four identical, double-acting ram or jacklike actuators designated by the reference numerals la, lb, lc, 1d, respectively.
  • Each actuator is provided inside with a sliding piston 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, respectively, comprising a rod 3a, 3b, 3c, M, respectively, secured to its top face (or rear face).
  • Each piston divides the inner enclosed space of the actuator wherein it is sliding into a pair of independent chambers, one of which 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, respectively, lying on the side of the bottom or front face of the piston and called front chamber, whereas the other one 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, respectively, is located on the side of the top or rear face of the piston and called rear chamber.
  • the actuators are mounted on a common support or holder 6 and drive in vertical translation a common pressing element 7.
  • Each one of the front and rear chambers of each actuator is provided with an orifice 8a, 9a; 8b, 9b; 8c, 8d, 9d.
  • the orifice 8a of the front chamber 4a of the actuator la which forms the first actuator of the assembly or unit shown, communicates with a line 10 connected to a source of fluid pressure (not shown) whereas the rear chamber 5d of the actuator 1d which forms the fourth actuator of the unit shown, is connected to the return pipe or line 11 for the pressure fluid.
  • the rear chamber 511 of the actuator 1a is connected through a duct 12 to the front chamber 4b of the actuator lb.
  • the rear chamber 5b of the actuator 1b is connected through a conduit 13 to the front chamber 4c of the actuator 1c.
  • the rear chamber 5c of the actuator 1c is connected through a duct 14 to the front chamber 4d of the actuator 1d.
  • Each one of the ducts l2, l3 and 14 is connected through the medium of a valve 15, 16 and 17, respectively, to a pan or like tank 18 containing hydraulic fluid for makeup or replenishment.
  • the valves 15, 16 and 17 of conventional type and consisting for example of a sliding element, are operated by an electromagnetic or solenoid valve 20 also of conventional type, hydraulically connected to the line 10 so as to control the displacement of the sliding element of each one of the valves 15, I6 and 17, to provide or not the communication between the tank 18 and the ducts I2, 13 and 14.
  • the electrovalve 20 comprises, within its electrical supply circuit 21 connected to the terminal 22 of a source of electric current, a switch 23 adapted to open or break or to close or complete said supply circuit as a function of the position of the pressing element 7 as will be explained hereinafter.
  • the device operates as follows: the front and rear chambers of each one of the actuators being assumed to be filled with hydraulic fluid, the supply of the front chamber 4a of the actuator la through the line 10 results in the upward sliding of piston 2a which delivers fluid from the chamber 511 into the front chamber 4b of the actuator lb. It results therefrom that the piston 2b also slides upwards and delivers fluid from the chamber 5b thereby causing likewise the upward motion of said piston 20 and of the piston 2d which delivers, into the return line 11, the fluid contained within the rear chamber 5d of the actuator 1d.
  • the actuators hydraulically connected to each other are therefore operated simultaneously and they carry along therewith the pressing element 7 in upward translation.
  • the electromagnetic valve 20 is provided for operating the valves l5, l6 and 17 so as to cut ofl' the communication between the tank 18 and the lines 12, 13 and 11 3 during building up of pressure within the hydraulic circuit, that is during the operation of the actuators and to establish such a communication when said actuators have reached one of their stroke end positions, for example the position at the end of the downward stroke.
  • the switch 23 completes the feed circuit for the electromagnetic valve at said position at the end of the downward stroke, this switch being actuated by an arm or the like 24 rigidly connected for translatory motion with one of the actuators (and therefore with the pressing element 7).
  • Each actuator may desirably be provided with a member for adjusting the stroke of its piston, this member consisting of a threaded rod 25a, 25b, 25c, 25d, respectively.
  • This threaded rod is screw-threaded into a hollow sleeve, threaded inside, 26a, 26b, 26c, 26d, respectively, rigidly connected to the piston 20, 2b, 2c, 2d, respectively, and secured to its bottom face or front face.
  • Each piston rod 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d is provided at its upper portion with a groove 27a, 27b, 27c, 27d receiving a cog or rib of the pressure element and preventing said sleeve from being rotated by the threaded rod.
  • Each threaded rod is provided at its lower portion with a head 29a, 29b, 29c, 29d adapted to abut upon downwmd motion of the pistons against a stationary member 28, for example a cross member or the like.
  • each threaded rod with respect to the sleeve with which it is associated results in a variation in its useful length, that is the distance between its lower head and the piston, so that it forms an adjustable stop enabling to selectively set at will the bottom position of the pistons with respect to the stationary member 28 hence the strokes of these pistons.
  • the simultaneous rotary drive of the threaded rods 25a, 25b, 25c, 25d of the four actuators 1a, lb, 1c, 1d is carried out by a single motor 30 rigidly connected to the pressing element 7.
  • the motor 30 comprises sprocket wheels 36 and 37 which directly drive the rods 25b and 25c by means of sprocket chains 32 and 33, respectively, these sprocket chains meshing with sprocket wheels 38b and 330 rigidly connected to said rods 25b and 250.
  • the rods 25b and 25c drive the rods 25a and 25d, respectively, by means of the sprocket chains 34 and which mesh with sprocket wheels 39b, 39a and 39c, 39d rigidly connected to the rods 25b, 25a, 25c and 25d, respectively.
  • the motor 30 may be an electric motor or a hydraulic motor.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show a punching or cutting press provided with the driving device shown in FIG. I.
  • Said press comprises a stationary frame 40 provided at its upper portion with a carriage or slide 41 provided sidewise with lugs or the like 42 sliding in substantially horizontal and parallel slideways or like guides 43 rigidly secured to the stationary frame 40, so that said carriage 41 slides horizontally.
  • the pressing element 7 consists of a working table also provided with lugs or the like 44 adapted to slide within vertical and parallel slideways or like guides 45 of the stationary frame.
  • the holder for the actuators consists of a crossmember 6 rigidly affixed to the frame 40 whereas the stationary member which limits the downward motions of the threaded rods 25a, 25b, 25c, 25d, hence the strokes of the pistons of the actuators, consists of a pair of crossmembers 28a, 28b also rigidly connected to the frame and lying in a common horizontal lane.
  • the switch 23 is secured to the crossmember 28a and is operated by the arm 24 rigidly connected for translatory motion (but rotatably) to the rod 25b of the actuator lb, this switch closing the feed circuit for the electromagnetic valve 20 as soon as the four threaded rods come into engagement with the cross members 28a and 28b.
  • any number of actuators higher than four could of course be provided or said number could be reduced within the device to three or even two associated actuators.
  • actuators have been assumed to operate one single pressing element, it is obvious that several sets of actuators all hydraulically connected to each other according to the general principle of the invention and possibly fitted with adjustable stops mechanically connected to each other could be provided, each one of these sets of actuators driving a pressing element or the like.
  • a hydraulic press having a reciprocally movable pressing element, a plurality, greater than two, of hydraulic power devices of the double-acting type for driving said pressing element in translatory motion, each one of said hydraulic power devices having an internal cavity with a reciprocally moving piston therein, said piston dividing said cavity into a front chamber and a rear chamber independent from each other, and a rod secured to said piston on one side thereof, said rod being operatively connected to said pressing element, a supply circuit for delivering a pressure fluid to said hydraulic power devices, hydraulic ducts hydraulically connecting said hydraulic power devices in series each intermediate hydraulic power device having its front chamber and its rear chamber connected to the rear chamber and to the front chamber, respectively, of the two hydraulic power devices with which it is associated by one of said ducts, the first and last hydraulic power device being connected to said supply circuit, said first by its front chamber and said last by its rear chamber, so that the driving of the piston of the first hydraulic power device by said pressure fluid causes the hydraulic power devices to be fed by each other and causes simultaneous sliding motion of their pistons,
  • said electromagnetic valve means has an electric feed circuit comprising a switch means for operating said electromagnetic valve means for placing each duct in communication with said tank when said pressing element reaches the end of its stroke.
  • each one of said hydraulic power devices comprises a member for adjusting the stroke of its piston, said member consisting of a rotary threaded rod received in a likewise threaded sleeve rigidly connected to said piston and forming a stop member of adjustable length.
  • said electromagnetic valve means has an electric feed circuit comprising a switch means for operating said electromagnetic valve means to place each duct in communication with said tank when said pressing element reaches the end of its stroke, said switch means including an arm connected nonrotatably to one of said rotary threaded rods for translatory motion therewith, and said arm of said switch means placing said switch means in a closed position when said pressing element reaches the end of its stroke.

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