EP0943379B1 - Méthode et dispositif de cintrage automatique des éléments métalliques profilés et équivalents - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif de cintrage automatique des éléments métalliques profilés et équivalents Download PDF

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EP0943379B1
EP0943379B1 EP99104039A EP99104039A EP0943379B1 EP 0943379 B1 EP0943379 B1 EP 0943379B1 EP 99104039 A EP99104039 A EP 99104039A EP 99104039 A EP99104039 A EP 99104039A EP 0943379 B1 EP0943379 B1 EP 0943379B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D11/00—Bending not restricted to forms of material mentioned in only one of groups B21D5/00, B21D7/00, B21D9/00; Bending not provided for in groups B21D5/00 - B21D9/00; Twisting
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  • the present invention relates to a method for automatically bending metal profiled elements, particularly iron rods for reinforced concrete and the like, and to a machine which allows to perform the method automatically or semiautomatically.
  • stirrup bending machines which allow to produce stirrups and the like in different shapes, such as those shown for example in Figures 8a, 8b and 8c and designated by the reference numerals 20a, 20b and 20c for the sake of clarity.
  • These machines have, in addition to suitable elements for straightening the iron rods, a feeder unit, suitable bending elements, and a cropping unit. Said units can be combined into a single machine or, as an alternative, their functions can be mutually integrated or separated and assigned to separate auxiliary units.
  • the bending elements usually have a bending head, for example of the type shown in Figure 7; said bending head has a central pivot or spindle 13 and a bending pivot 14 which is supported eccentrically by a bending arm 15 which can rotate with respect to the axis of said central pivot 13.
  • the bending head In order to perform bendings on opposite sides with respect to the axis of the iron rods to be bent, the bending head must be of the so-called bidirectional type, i.e., it must be able to perform the working movement in mutually opposite directions. This means that the positions of the central pivot and of the bending pivot must be reversed with respect to the axis of the iron rods to be bent.
  • the machine In order to move said bending elements, the machine is capable of producing the vertical translatory motion of the bending head and a movement at right angles to the working surface, so as to allow said bending head to retract and then protrude again after moving past the rods to be bent.
  • This vertical translatory motion is in any case still limited to the sum of the diameters of the rod and of the pivot 13.
  • the above-cited machines have the characteristic that they support and handle the metal profiled elements being bent while leaving them attached to the raw material during the treatment.
  • the machines In order to support the weight of the resulting item, avoiding permanent deformations due to the weight thereof, the machines often have a channel which acts as a support for the advancing items, so as to allow to produce straight bars and shaped elements having considerable dimensions, i.e., heavier than allowed by the rigidity of the raw material.
  • the channel has a bottom which can be opened to discharge the item at the end of the process.
  • Said channel is capable of receiving, in addition to the bars, most stirrups that have bends only in their front part, and is accordingly produced with a height which allows to accommodate commonly manufactured shaped items.
  • the channel is open upward in an initial portion, so that the item is capable of protruding from said channel during production.
  • stirrup bending machines allow to produce most of the items required in the field being considered, which are generally constituted by bars which have one or more bends at a single end, of the type shown in Figures 8d and 8e, in which said bent bars are designated by the reference numerals 20d and 20e respectively.
  • said bending machines in addition to being provided with the elements suitable for bending the profiled elements in the rear part, require the presence of elements which allow the longitudinal movement of the item being treated after it has been cropped off the raw material. Moreover, during the longitudinal backward movement it is necessary to move beyond the obstacle constituted by the space occupied by the mechanical elements located in front of the bending elements, which inherently protrude from the working surface. This entails a further increase in the structural and operating complexity of the machine and in the associated costs in order to allow machining operations which are, in quantitative terms, a substantially small part of normal production.
  • EP- 0 865 842 which is a document under Article 54(3) EPC, discloses a method and machine for automatically bending profiled elements.
  • EP-0538 595 discloses a bending-shaping machine having multiple working levels, as defined in the preamble of claims 1 and 6.
  • the aim of the present invention is to solve the above-described problem, by providing a method which allows to perform, very cheaply and simply, the automatic or semiautomatic bending of metal profiled elements having various shapes, particularly very long profiled elements provided with bends at both ends.
  • an object of the present invention is to perform the above method by means of a machine, particularly of the stirrup bending type, whose structure is simple in concept, safely reliable in operation and versatile in use.
  • the reference numeral 1 generally designates the machine for bending metal profiled elements 2, for example iron rods for reinforced concrete and the like, hereinafter termed rods for the sake of simplicity.
  • the machine 1 has a line 3 for feeding the rods 2 to be bent.
  • the rods 2 are fed by conventional elements, not shown, which are arranged in an initial region of the machine, the housing 4 of which is partially shown.
  • a cropping unit 5 At the outlet of said feeder elements, along the feed line 3, there is a cropping unit 5 which is also of a known type.
  • the machine is provided with bending means which are suitable to bend the ends of the rods 2.
  • Said bending means are constituted by a bending unit 10, which can move between a first bending position 11 (Figure 1), at the bending line 3, and a second bending position 12 (Figure 2), which lies above said lower position for feeding the rods 2.
  • the bending unit 10 is substantially constituted, in a per se known manner, by a cylindrical head which can be actuated so as to rotate and is provided with a central pivot 13 and with a bending pivot 14 which is supported eccentrically by a bending arm 15 which can rotate rigidly with respect to said head about the axis of said central pivot 13.
  • the bending unit 10 acts at a working surface formed by a front bed 6; said bed 6 has an opening 7 from which the head of the bending unit 10 protrudes.
  • the opening 7 is preferably formed at a recessed region of the bed 6 which has suitably inclined side walls.
  • the machine At the lower position, along the feed line 3, the machine has a channel 16 which is suitable to receive, during an operating step, the portion of the rods 2 that protrudes in front of the bending means 10.
  • the channel 16 has a bottom 17 which can be opened by means of a lever system 18 which is actuated by an actuator 19.
  • the rod is then cropped to the chosen size by means of the cutting unit 5.
  • the bending means 10 are prepared in the correct position for performing the bends in the rear part, i.e., so that the central pivot 13 lies above the rod 2 and the bending pivot 14 lies below it ( Figure 1 again).
  • the bending means 10 move at right angles to the working surface 6, so as to retract with respect to said surface 6, and then protrude again after moving beyond the rod to be bent.
  • the arm 15 is rotated from the front side, indicated by the arc A in Figure 7 and in which the front part 2a of the rod is bent, to the rear side, indicated by the arc P and in which the rear part 2b of the rod is bent.
  • the bending unit 10 is then moved into the upper position 12, raising the rear part of the rod ( Figure 2).
  • the rear part of the rod is inclined and curved due to its elasticity and to its own weight, and therefore the electronic management devices with which the machine is equipped must provide for an automatic compensation of the bending angle, which can be optionally modified for this purpose by the intervention of the operator in order to achieve the intended final result.
  • the rod 2 can be raised manually by the operator, who inserts it between the central pivot 13 and the bending pivot 14.
  • the rod 2 is raised at the rear by a limited extent which is sufficient to clear the rod from the space occupied by the mechanical elements arranged to the rear of the bending means 10.
  • the bending arm 15 perform an angular rotation, during the translatory stroke of the bending unit 10, from a vertical position to an inclined position which is substantially perpendicular to the tangent to the curve formed by the rod in the point of contact with the central pivot 13 (see Figure 2 again).
  • the machine stops again to allow to operator to retract the rod again by the appropriate extent, subsequently resuming the cycle until the shape is completed.
  • the illustrated solution allows to form the rear bends only in an upward direction, since the abutment for bending is constituted by the bottom 17 of the channel 16 which lies in front of the bending means 10, without the intervention of auxiliary elements. More specifically, the abutment action performed by said bottom 17 is provided by simple contact restraint reaction and therefore only in an upward direction.
  • the operator manually inserts locators 26 in corresponding holes formed in the working surface 6, in front of the bending means 10, preferably close to said bending elements.
  • locators 26 in corresponding holes formed in the working surface 6, in front of the bending means 10, preferably close to said bending elements.
  • locator pins 26 it is of course possible for the locator pins 26 to be normally arranged inside the surface 6 and to protrude from it when necessary, the corresponding retraction and protrusion movements being determined by suitable actuators.
  • Figure 5 illustrates another embodiment, in which the bottom of the channel 16, which has a conveniently elongated shape, is provided with a rear part 27 which is arranged adjacent to the bending means 10 and can be inclined at a suitable hinge 21; the inclination is performed by the operator directly after the lifting of the rod 2, through a suitable cam mechanism or automatically by means of an actuator 22.
  • the rear upper lip of the channel 16 acts as a locator during bending.
  • the elongation of the channel 16, or as an alternative the possibility to make it movable in a longitudinal direction so as to move toward the bending means as much as possible, arises from the need to minimize the distance between the central pivot 13 and the bottom 17 of said channel 16 during the bending of the rear part of the profiled elements, while said bottom 17 must be spaced or open when the machine forms bends in the front part of the profiled elements or when forming ordinary stirrups.
  • the channel 16 has, on the bottom 17 and at the rear end arranged adjacent to the bending means 10, locator means 23 which are constituted for example by a shim element or eccentric element which is suitable to be interposed automatically or manually in order to re-establish the contact between the rod 2 and the bottom of said channel 16, which is no longer provided due to the upward motion of the rod 2, after the translatory motion of the rear part of said rod 2 into the second upper bending position (reference should be made to the enlarged-scale view of the detail R of Figure 6, where the dashed line 23a designates the deactivated position of said locator means 23).
  • locator means 23 which are constituted for example by a shim element or eccentric element which is suitable to be interposed automatically or manually in order to re-establish the contact between the rod 2 and the bottom of said channel 16, which is no longer provided due to the upward motion of the rod 2, after the translatory motion of the rear part of said rod 2 into the second upper bending position (reference should be made to the enlarged-scale view of the
  • the channel 16, or only its bottom 17, preferably have a considerable extension, so as to be as close as possible to the pivot 13 of the bending means 10, so that it can act as a locator with a minimal inclination of the rod in the rear part, particularly if a compact cutting element 5 is used.
  • the method and the machine according to the invention allow to perform very simply and at low cost the automatic or semiautomatic bending of metal profiled elements in different shapes, particularly profiled elements of considerable length and provided with bends at both ends, such as for example those shown in Figures 8f, 8g and 8h.
  • the bends formed in the rear part of the profiled elements have a precision which, despite being slightly lower than the precision of the front bends owing to the curvature applied to the rear part of the rods being bent, is fully within the tolerance range normally accepted in the field.
  • the materials employed, as well as the shapes and the dimensions, may be any according to requirements.

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  1. Procédé pour cintrer de manière automatique des éléments métalliques profilés, en particulier des tiges de fer destinées à du béton armé, comportant les étapes suivantes :
    alimenter les éléments profilés (2) devant être découpés le long d'une ligne d'alimentation (3), afin de cintrer, dans un plan de cintrage, une extrémité avant (2a) desdits éléments profilés dans une première position de cintrage agencée le long de ladite ligne d'alimentation (3),
    actionner l'avancée desdits éléments profilés (2) pour faire en sorte que leur partie avant, qui fait saillie par rapport à ladite première position de cintrage, soit en appui sur un canal de guidage (6),
    découper à dimension lesdits éléments profilés (2) à une longueur qui comporte aussi la partie arrière à cintrer,
    décaler la partie arrière desdits éléments profilés découpés à dimension dans une seconde position de cintrage (12),
    effectuer le déplacement longitudinal mesuré desdits éléments profilés,
    et caractérisé par l'étape de cintrage dans ledit plan de cintrage d'une extrémité arrière (2b) desdits éléments profilés dans ladite seconde position de cintrage, et en ce que lesdites première et seconde positions de cintrage sont agencées dans ledit plan de cintrage qui coïncide avec le plan dans lequel est agencée la ligne d'alimentation (3), et en ce que ladite seconde position de cintrage se trouve au-dessus de ladite ligne d'alimentation (3) lorsque le plan qui contient la ligne d'alimentation est un plan sensiblement vertical, selon une étendue limitée qui est suffisante pour un déplacement au-delà de l'espace occupé par les éléments mécaniques agencés sur l'arrière de ladite première position de cintrage.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte de plus l'étape de production du mouvement de translation de ladite partie arrière des éléments profilés (2) dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure soit manuellement ou à l'aide de moyens de cintrage (10) qui se déplacent entre ladite première position de cintrage agencée le long de ladite ligne d'alimentation (3) et ladite position de cintrage supérieure (12).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte les étapes d'insertion de moyens formant dispositif de positionnement (26) sur une surface de travail (6) contenant ladite ligne d'alimentation (3) desdits éléments profilés (2), en avant de ladite première position de cintrage, et de production manuelle dudit déplacement longitudinal mesuré desdits éléments profilés, de manière à insérer lesdits éléments profilés entre lesdits moyens formant dispositif de positionnement (26).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape de production du mouvement de translation de ladite partie arrière des éléments profilés (2) dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure (12) est effectuée en mettant en rotation de manière angulaire une partie arrière dudit canal de guidage (16) qui peut être inclinée.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte de plus l'étape d'association audit canal de guidage (16) des moyens formant dispositif de positionnement (23) qui sont adaptés pour rétablir un contact entre lesdits éléments profilés et la partie inférieure dudit canal de guidage après le mouvement de translation de ladite partie arrière desdits éléments profilés dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure.
  6. Machine pour le cintrage automatique d'éléments profilés métalliques, en particulier des tiges d'acier destinées à du béton armé, comportant : une ligne (3) pour alimenter les éléments profilés (2) devant être cintrés, des moyens de cintrage (10) qui sont adaptés pour cintrer les extrémités desdits éléments profilés (2), un canal de guidage (16), qui est adapté pour recevoir, de manière à être en appui sur celle-ci, la partie desdits éléments profilés qui fait saillie vers l'avant par rapport à ladite première position de cintrage, et qui agit comme moyens formant dispositif de positionnement pendant le cintrage de ladite extrémité arrière desdits éléments profilés, caractérisée en ce que les moyens de cintrage (10) sont adaptés pour se déplacer entre une première position de cintrage, agencée le long de ladite ligne d'alimentation (3), pour cintrer dans un plan de cintrage une extrémité avant desdits éléments de profilés, et une seconde position de cintrage, pour cintrer dans ledit plan de cintrage une extrémité arrière desdits profilés, et en ce que ladite première position de cintrage et ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure sont agencées dans ledit plan de cintrage sensiblement vertical qui coïncide avec le plan dans lequel est agencée la ligne d'alimentation (3), et en ce que ladite seconde position de cintrage est agencée au-dessus de ladite ligne d'alimentation, ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure étant espacée d'une étendue limitée qui suffit pour un déplacement au-delà de l'espace occupé par les éléments mécaniques agencés à l'arrière de ladite première position de cintrage.
  7. Machine selon la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte des moyens formant dispositif de positionnement (26) qui sont adaptés pour être insérés dans des trous correspondants formés dans la surface de travail (10), en avant desdits moyens de cintrage (10), sensiblement à proximité desdits moyens de cintrage, et pour recevoir lesdits éléments profilés (2) lorsque ladite partie arrière desdits éléments profilés se déplace dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure, de manière à agir comme dispositifs de positionnement supérieur et inférieur desdits éléments profilés.
  8. Machine selon la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce que la partie inférieure (17) dudit canal de guidage (16) est munie d'une partie arrière qui est agencée adjacente auxdits moyens de cintrage, et qui peut être inclinée à une articulation adaptée (21), par l'intermédiaire de moyens d'actionnement (22), pour supporter lesdits éléments profilés lorsque ladite partie arrière desdits éléments profilés se déplace dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure.
  9. Machine selon la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce que des moyens de butée (17) sont associés audit canal de guidage (16), et sont adaptés pour rétablir un contact entre lesdits éléments profilés et la partie inférieure dudit canal de guidage après le mouvement de translation de ladite partie arrière desdits éléments profilés dans ladite seconde position de cintrage supérieure.
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