US3729102A - Spool and coil handling device for a rolling mill - Google Patents

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US3729102A
US3729102A US00133568A US3729102DA US3729102A US 3729102 A US3729102 A US 3729102A US 00133568 A US00133568 A US 00133568A US 3729102D A US3729102D A US 3729102DA US 3729102 A US3729102 A US 3729102A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C47/00—Winding-up, coiling or winding-off metal wire, metal band or other flexible metal material characterised by features relevant to metal processing only
    • B21C47/02—Winding-up or coiling
    • B21C47/04—Winding-up or coiling on or in reels or drums, without using a moving guide
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S414/00—Material or article handling
    • Y10S414/123—Hollow cylinder handlers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S483/00—Tool changing
    • Y10S483/902—Tool grippers

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  • the present invention provides a spool handling device capable of use in a very minimum amount of space; one that can also be combined with existing equipment and which will assure that the spools will not hang up or damage the surface of the reel as they are brought over the reel. 1
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a spool feeder, comprising a cantileverly supported frame extending over a tension reel on which a spool is to be placed for winding of strip thereon under tension.
  • the inner end of the frame is mounted on the drive or bearing stand of the reel and serves as a guide track for a gripper assembly.
  • the gripper assembly consists of a pair of opposed movable jaws that grip the adjacent end of a spool supported in front of the reel in axial alignment therewith. The gripper assembly is advanced to and from the front of the reel by a piston cylinder assembly and when in the innermost position it ambushes beyond the collapsed reeling surface of the reel.
  • the gripper assembly may also include a coil stripper having a cylinder operated stripper plate that engages the inside end of a coil formed on the reel. When the gripper is moved toward the front of the reel, the stripper plate forces the coil and spool over the collapsed reel.
  • FIG. 1 is a partial plan view of the delivery side of a rolling mill incorporating the features of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is an elevational view taken on lines 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is an end view of the equipment illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown in diagrammatical form a rolling mill 10 which is adapted to receive strip and roll it in the direction indicated by the arrow and after which the strip is fed to a tension reel 111 for coiling.
  • the tension reel is driven by a drive 12 and, while not shown, includes an expanding and collapsiblemechanism of a design well known in the art. The two positions of the reel will vary from 20 22 inches.
  • a belt wrapper 13 Following the tension reel 11 and in line with the rolling mill 10, there is provided a belt wrapper 13 which is adapted to be advanced to and from the reel 11 and in its advanced position cause the leading end portion of the strip to pass around a spool supported by the expanded reel surface of the reel 11.
  • the operation and construction of the belt wrapper l3 and the reel 11 are well known in the art as illustrated in U. S. Pat. No. 2,172,616 that issued to Clarence J. Klein on Sept. 12, 1939.
  • the present invention relates, in part, to a device for placing the spool on the reel 11.
  • a conveyor 14 on the outside of the belt wrapper 13 which receives spools from behind the mill and brings them to a position in front of the mill.
  • a lifting device 15 which lifts and transfers the spools one at a time from the conveyor 14 onto a spool storage and feeder rack 16.
  • This rack is designed to handle at least eight spools which are shown in FIG. 1. It will be observed that a ninth spool is shown shifted in front of the tension reel 11. This shifting is accomplished by a device 17 which consists of a pair of sliding rams projecting from under the rack 16 and which takes a spool from the storage rack anti transfers it to a position directly in front of and in axial alignment with the reel 1 1.
  • FIG. 1 Before leaving FIG. 1 it should also be noted that outward from the spool, previously identified as being located in front of the mill, there is shown a completed coil with its supporting spool which has been moved away from the reel. 11 past the storage rack 16 by a coil car 18, where the coil will be removed to allow the next coil to be moved away from the reel 11.
  • the movement of the car 18 is subject to the shifting device 17 being retracted to its position shown in FIG. 1.
  • the size of the coils may range in diameter from 36 to 96 inches, weighing up to 40,000 pounds, being formed of aluminum strip 30 78 inches wide and up to A inch thick.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 where there is illustrated a preferred form of the spool feeder and coil stripper device of the present invention
  • the reel 11 is again shown in which connection it should be appreciated that the reel will be in its collapsed position in readiness to receive a spool, a portion of which is shown in FIG. 2 towards the left of the figure.
  • the spools are constructed out of cast carbon steel tubing, each having an inside diameter of 20 inches, a thickness of 2-% inches, being 84 inches long and having a weight of approximately 2,000 pounds.
  • FIG. 1 is constructed out of cast carbon steel tubing, each having an inside diameter of 20 inches, a thickness of 2-% inches, being 84 inches long and having a weight of approximately 2,000 pounds.
  • FIG. 2 also shows a portion of the reel drive 12 in which connection it will be noted that at the top thereof there are provided two spaced-apart supports 22 and 23 adapted to receive identical longitudinally extending tubular members 24 which extend over the reel 11 and are supported in a cantilever fashion by the supports 22 and 23.
  • the members 24 actually serve as spaced-apart guides for a gripper and stripper frame 25, which in FIG. 2 is shown advanced to the very end of the reel 1 1 in readiness to receive and grip a spool to be mounted on the reel. This advancement is brought about through the agency of a piston cylinder assembly 26, shown only in FIG. 1.
  • the frame 25 of the gripper mechanism is best illustrated in FIG. 3 where it takes the form of a generally rectangular shaped plate having bushing sleeves 27 for sliding over the tubular members 24.
  • the plate also is provided with a bracket 28 which supports a piston cylinder assembly 29, the lower end of the assembly being connected to a pair of toggles 32.
  • the movement of the bell cranks-33 are controlled by control arms 34; one end of each of which is secured to the frame 25 and the other end to associated gripper members 35 to which also the lower end of each bell crank 33 is connected.
  • the gripper members 35 are formed with gripping surfaces complementary to the outside diameter of the spool and include in their center area gripping plates 36.
  • a second piston cylinder as sembly 37 the piston of which, as in the case of the piston cylinder assembly 29, extends in a downward direction, to which there is secured a stripper plate 38.
  • This plate is formed so as to encircle the upper portion of the reel 11, at the drive side thereof, and presents a portion of the plate against the inside surface of a coil formed on the reel. In this position on the operation of the piston cylinder assembly 26 after the reel has been collapsed, a coil formed on a spool supported by the reel will be urged with the spool over the reel. Of course, it will be understood that during this operation the coil will be supported by the coil car 18 previously referred to.
  • a spool feeder comprising:
  • said frame including a pair of spaced-apart guide rods, a gripper member including a pair of 18W elements having portions that engage the opposite sides of a spool and carried by said guide rods in a manner to permit movement axially of said reel,
  • piston cylinder assemblies connected to said gripper member for causing said gripper member after the spool has been engaged thereby to carry a spool onto said reel
  • said frame having a portion that overhangs a spool so supported whereby the gripper member can be positioned to grip the inboard end of a spool and carry the spool on the reel,
  • a stripper member carried by said frame in a manner that it is movable with said gripper member, said stripper member preceding said gripper member with respect to the inboard end of said reel, and means for causing said stripper member to move from a position above a spool, in which position a spool may be placed on said reel, to a position behind said spool when a spool and coil are to be stripped.

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US4714209A (en) * 1984-06-20 1987-12-22 Bicc Public Limited Company Coil forming method
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US3881603A (en) * 1973-03-23 1975-05-06 Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp Doffing mechanism
US4153211A (en) * 1976-04-15 1979-05-08 Barmag Barmer Maschinenfabrik Ag Bobbin elevators in bobbin transport devices
US4714209A (en) * 1984-06-20 1987-12-22 Bicc Public Limited Company Coil forming method
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