US3726420A - Billet manipulating apparatus - Google Patents
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- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
- B23Q7/00—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting
- B23Q7/16—Loading work on to conveyors; Arranging work on conveyors, e.g. varying spacing between individual workpieces
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- Gerlach 1 ABSTRACT A billet manipulating apparatus for the selective presentation of a billet to the operative grinding surface of a grinding wheel.
- An assembly of three billetengaging arms functions to remove the billet to be ground from a charge table and position it in any one of a number of grinding positions, one arm effecting transfer of the billet from the table to the other two arms which then function to rotate or tumble the billet until the desired side or edge to be ground is presented to the associated grinding wheel.
- the present invention relates generally to a billet handling or manipulating apparatus which is especially adapted for use in a steel mill and by means of which elongated steel billets which are square in transverse cross section and have been examined for surface defects and marked accordingly for visual grinding in order to remove scale, cracks, and the like, are withdrawn, one at a time, from a charge table and are then manipulated so as to position each billet in clamped relationship for proper presentation to a grinding wheel so that the wheel will operate upon the particular side of the billet which it is desired to grind.
- the invention is concerned with a manipulating unit which together with similar units along the discharge edge of a billet charge table serve to withdraw the billets, one at a time, from the charge table for billet-manipulating purposes, and then, by a rotational tumbling operation, orient each billet as it is received for presentation of a selected side thereof to the associated grinding wheel.
- a manipulating unit which together with similar units along the discharge edge of a billet charge table serve to withdraw the billets, one at a time, from the charge table for billet-manipulating purposes, and then, by a rotational tumbling operation, orient each billet as it is received for presentation of a selected side thereof to the associated grinding wheel.
- the manipulating unit of the present invention is necessarily employed in connection with at least one other substantially identical unit, the number of units employed being dependent upon the length of the billets undergoing handling or manipulation.
- the unit embodies a work-supporting casing which is provided with various fixed horizontal and sloping work-supporting surfaces and these surfaces cooperate with other work-supporting surfaces on a pair of pivoted billetmanipulating arms, the latter surfaces being capable of relative movement with respect to each other, as well as with respect to the fixed surfaces on the casing whereby a billet can be transferred from one surface to another either by a sliding motion, a tumbling motion, or a combination of such motions, and then returned to a previous work-supporting surface with a fresh upper surface on the billet being presented for grinding.
- a third arm having a billet-engaging surface thereon constitutes a component part of the manipulating unit and its function is solely one of transferring a billet from the discharge edge region of the charge table to the two cooperating billet-manipulating arms in a predetermined position of orientation whereby succeeding manipulations of said two billet-manipulating arms will effect a definite sequence of billet rotating or tumbling procedures by means of which the billet may be rotated through an angle of 45 where a corner or edge of the billet is to be presented to the associated grinding wheel, or an angle of where a side of the billet'is to be so presented.
- FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a complete billet handling apparatus, such view showing a plurality of the manipulating units of the present invention operatively disposed with respect to a charge table for receiving billets therefrom, conducting them to a grinding station in various positions of orientation, returning them to their billet-receivingposition, and finally discharging the conditioned billets onto a discharge table;
- FIG. 2 is a side elevational view, largely schematic in its representation, of the principal functional parts of one of the manipulating units of FIG. 1, such view showing the unit in its normal position preparatory to withdrawing a billet from the charge table;
- FIG. 3 is a side elevational schematic view similar to FIG. 2 but illustrating the operation of the unit in withdrawing a billet from the charge table and receiving the same for manipulating purposes;
- FIG. 4 is a side elevational schematic view similar to FIGS. 2 and 3 but illustrating the operation of the unit in raising a billet into a grinding position for proper cooperation with a grinding wheel at the grinding station;
- FIGS. 5 to 8, inclusive are side elevational views similar to FIGS. 1 to 4, inclusive, illustrating schematically the manner in which the manipulating unit releases the billet from the grinding position of FIG. 4 and then manipulates the same throughout an angle of 90 and presents the same to the grinding wheel for grinding of a different billet side;
- FIG. 9 is a side elevational view similar to FIGS. 2 to 8, inclusive, illustrating the manner in which a completely conditioned billet is discharged from the manipulating unit.
- the billet handling apparatus 10 which is illustrated therein constitutes an exemplary environment for a plurality of substantially identical billet manipulating units 12 which constitute the subject matter of the present divisional patent application.
- the billet handling apparatus 10 is designed specifically for use in a steel mill and serves to conduct steel billets B of square cross section from an examining station where the billets are carefully examined for defects such, for
- the billet handling apparatus 10 involves in its general organization a charge table 11 which is designated by the bracket 14 at the right-hand side of FIG. 1.
- the billets B are placed on the receiving end of the charge table by power-actuated lift and transfer devices 16 which place the billets successively and one at a time on a plurality of wear rails 18 where they are impelled forwards by means of a series of power-actuated thrust devices 20.
- Each billet which is received on the rails 18 pushes forwards the billet ahead of it, thus progressively building up a horizontal stack of the billets on the charge table.
- the entire stack is pushed forwards beneath a plurality of chain conveyors 22 which functionto shift the stack periodically still further forwardly so that the leading billet in the stack falls by gravity into a charge table notch 24 where it remains until the grinding machine operator signals for deposition of such billet onto a travelling manipulating car 26, the latter being located at a transfer station and having associated therewith the aforementioned'plurality of manipulating units 12.
- the manipulating car 26 travels laterally of the charge table 11 and conducts the billet which is placed thereon to a grinding machine 28 for presentation to agrindin'g wheel 30in various selected positions of billet orientation.
- the manipulating units 12 may be operated to tumble or otherwise orient the billet being processed or worked on for presentation of selected sides of the bi]- let to the grinding wheel 30.
- the manner in which the billets are withdrawn from the charge table notch 24 and then transferred to the manipulating units 12, and the manner in which the billets are tumbled or otherwise oriented by such units for grinding purposes constitutes the subject matter of the present invention.
- the manipulating car 26 After a given billet has been treated or processed at the grinding station, the manipulating car 26 returns the billet to the transfer station and the manipulating units 12 then effect discharge of such billet onto a discharge table 32 where thrust devices 34 and chain conveyors 36, similar to the thrust devices and the
- the various manipulating units 12 of the present invention are shown in a charge table environment and are operatively installed upon a manipulating car 26 which travels laterally to and from a grinding station, it is to be distinctly understood that two or more of these units may be arranged in spaced relationship and in a fixed position for reception of billets from a charge table and in association with a grinding wheel which traverses the billets in grinding relationship. Stated otherwise, the manipulating units 12 may occupy a fixed position at a location which constitutes both a receiving or transfer station and a grinding station, as well as a final discharge station.
- each manipulating unit 12 is provided with a manipulator body or casing 40, the latter including a bottom wall 42 (see FIG. 2), a front wall 44, and a pair of spaced apart side walls 46 and 48, and being of narrow box-like design.
- the two side walls 46 and 48 are provided with notches in the upper regions thereof, the two notches constituting, in effect, a billet-receiving slot 50.
- the various casing walls together define a relatively deep pocket 52.
- a pair of billet manipulating arms including a billetsupporting arm 54 and a billet-clamping and eject arm 56.
- a third billet transfer arm 58 is disposed exteriorly of the pocket 52 as well as the casing 40.
- the billet-supporting arm 54 is mounted for swinging movement about the axis of a horizontal pin 60 which extends across the pocket and has its opposite ends anchored in the side walls 46 and 48, while the clamping and eject arm 56 is similarly mounted for swinging movement about a horizontal pin 62 which likewise extends across the pocket 52.
- the billet transfer arm 58 is also mounted for swinging movement about the pin 62.
- the distal end of the billet-supporting arm .54 is provided with a hook-like protuberance 64, while the distal end of the billet-clamping and eject arm 56 is provided with a pointed billet-engaging prong 65.
- the distal end of the billet transfer arm is provided with a hook-like protuberance 66 which is similar to' the protuberance 64 on the billet-supporting arm 54.
- Said arm 54 has formed therein a longitudinal slot 68 (see FIG. 1) through which the clamping and eject arm 56 projects when the latter arm is raised to its billet-clamping position, as well as when it is in its ejecting position.
- Thetwo manipulating arms i.e., the billet-supporting arm 54 and the billet-clamping and eject arm 56, are operable under the control of respective cylinder and plunger devices 70 and 72.
- the billet transfer arm 58 is operable under the control of a cylinder and plunger device 74.
- the cylinder and plunger devices 70 and 72 are both disposed within the pocket 52 while the cylinder and plunger device 74 is disposed outside of the pocket and alongside the side wall 46 of the casing In the normal position of the manipulating unit 12, I
- the billet transfer arm 58 extends substantially horizontally as shown in FIG. 2 and underlies a billet B which is disposed in the charge table notch 24 as shown in FIG. 2 of the drawings. Transfer of the billet from the notch 24 to the billet-receiving slot 50 in the upper region of the manipulator casing 40 is effected by supplying fluid under pressure to the cylinder and plunger device 74 in such a manner as to cause the billet transfer arm 58 to swing upwardly in a clockwise direction as viewed in FIG.
- the billet transfer arm 58 be associated with a charge table like the charge table which is shown in FIG. 1.
- such billet transfer arm may be used as a billet holding arm so as to hold a billet as a preliminary to its placement in the slot 50.
- the cylinder and plunger devices 70 and 72 will be actuated in unison so that the billet-supporting arm 54 will swing upwardly to a substantially horizontal position and lift the billet B from the bottom of the slot 50 and place it in the raised position in which it is illustrated in FIG. 4, while simultaneously the billet-clamping and ejecting arm 56 will swing forwardly against one side of the billet and clamp it securely against the hook-like protuberance 64 of the billet-supporting arm 54. With the billet B in this position, it issecurely held in proper grindingrelationship forcooperation of the grinding wheel 30 with the billet side surface labelled b.
- the position of the parts shown in FIG.6 is substantially the same as the position of the parts shown in FIG. 3, the only difference being that the billet B has been rotated through an angle of 90 in moving from the position of FIG. 3 to the position of FIG. 6. It, therefore, follows that by performing the previously described sequential operation of the cylinder and plunger devices and 72, the billet B will be raised and clamped in the position in which it is shown in FIG. 8, but with the side d presented to the grinding wheel 40.
- the position of the billet-clamping and eject arm 56 in FIG. 7 is substantially the same as the position thereof in FIG.
- a repetition of the various sequential steps set forth above may be twice effected in order to complete grinding of the remaining corners and sides of the billet B, the billet tumbling in a counterclockwise direction each time a positional change is effected.
- the billet may be ejected from the manipulating unit 12 by allowing the cylinder and plunger device 70 to be retracted in order to lower the billet-supporting arm 54 to the position wherein it is shown in FIG. 9, while at the same time fluid will be supplied to the cylinder and plunger device 72 in order to swing the billet-clamping and eject arm 56 upwardly through the slot 68 in the billet-supporting arm 54 and forcibly push the billet B over the flats on the upper edges of the casing side walls 46 and 48 and onto the discharge table 32.
- a billet-manipulating unit adapted, in combination with similar units, to remove the leading billet from a horizontal stack of elongated billets which advance progressively across a charge table and are generally square in cross section in order to impart progressive increments of rotational movement to said leading billet for selective presentation of the sides of the billet to a grinding wheel positioned above the unit, said unit comprising a casing having a pair of spaced apart side walls defining therebetween a relatively deep narrow pocket, the upper edges of said side walls being notched to provide a billet-receiving slot, a normally horizontal linearly straight billet transfer arm disposed exteriorly of the casing, having its proximate end pivoted for swinging movement to one of said side walls of the casing and normally underlying said leading billet in the stack, a linearly straight billet-supporting arm having a longitudinally extending slot therein, disposed within said casing and pivoted at its proximate end to the casing at a region adjacent to the upper portion of said billet-receiving slot for swinging movement about
- a billet-manipulating unit adapted, in combination with similar units, to impart progressive increments of rotational movement to a billet of generally square cross section for selective presentation of the sides of the billet to a grinding wheel positioned above the unit, said unit comprising a casing having a pair 'of spaced apart side walls defining therebetween a relatively deep narrow pocket, the upper edges of said side walls being notched to provide a billet-receiving slot, a linearly straight billet-supporting arm having a longitudinally extending slot therein, disposed within said casing and pivoted at its proximate end to the casing at a region adjacent to the upper portion of said slot for swinging movement about a horizontal axis, and a linearly straight billet-clamping and eject arm disposed within the casing and pivoted at its proximate end to the casing at a region adjacent to the lower position of the slot for swinging movement about a horizontal axis, said last-mentioned arm projecting through the slot in the billet-supporting arm, said
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