EP0997205B1 - Dispositif pour débosseler les collerettes de tonneaux métalliques - Google Patents

Dispositif pour débosseler les collerettes de tonneaux métalliques Download PDF

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EP0997205B1
EP0997205B1 EP99120604A EP99120604A EP0997205B1 EP 0997205 B1 EP0997205 B1 EP 0997205B1 EP 99120604 A EP99120604 A EP 99120604A EP 99120604 A EP99120604 A EP 99120604A EP 0997205 B1 EP0997205 B1 EP 0997205B1
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Rudi Ellmers
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ellmers instandhaltungstecknik GmbH
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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
    • B21D1/00—Straightening, restoring form or removing local distortions of sheet metal or specific articles made therefrom; Stretching sheet metal combined with rolling
    • B21D1/06—Removing local distortions
    • B21D1/08—Removing local distortions of hollow bodies made from sheet metal

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  • the invention relates to a device for denting Collar (13) on metal drums (10) with a Bulge device with a pressure roller (40), at least two support rollers (38, 39) and a holding device (21) for holding the metal drums (10) during bulging.
  • Beer and other drinks are supplied by the breweries etc. increasingly in so-called KEG barrels at restaurants and other major customers delivered.
  • the KEG barrels are Metal barrels made of stainless steel on their lower and Have a foot or head collar on the top. This Collars have one on their free faces tubular ring on.
  • the KEG barrels on an operator Machine frame placed and rotatable here about its axis clamped.
  • the collar is then replaced by a radial inside arranged pressure roller and two radially outside arranged, interacting with the pressure roller Back-up rolls based on the principle of three-roll bending bulged.
  • the KEG barrel is rotating for this purpose driven.
  • EP 0 377 219 B1 Another device for denting metal drums describes EP 0 377 219 B1, which relates to FR 2 542 646 A1 refers. Thereafter, the device after the FR 2 542 646 A1 perceived as disadvantageous that the KEG barrel must be driven in rotation, which is a separate Drive requires, as well as that the pressure roller obliquely after is directed inside, mostly to the inside dented collar to be able to dent what the Device only suitable for KEG barrels with a high collar lets appear.
  • the device according to EP 0 377 219 B1 therefore leaves the principle of three-roll bending.
  • the barrel will also upright manually on a machine frame set and clamped.
  • the collar is then through a claw reaching into the collar bulged out by the Claw is pulled radially outwards.
  • An abutment The outside of the collar prevents this from happening is strongly pulled outwards.
  • For a good one Bulge result it is necessary that the barrel always exactly with the lowest point of the bump through the Operator is set in the device. This does the bulge with this device accordingly consuming.
  • a disadvantage of the devices both after the FR 2 542 646 A1 and EP 0 377 219 B1 is that the KEG barrels manually into the by an operator Devices or their machine frame are provided have to.
  • the devices according to the prior art can not be in a fully automatic system integrate.
  • the respective bulge in the collar is exactly Claw must be positioned, making for one fully automatic operation additional monitoring organs would be required.
  • the invention is based on the problem, a Device of the type mentioned above to train that they are in a fully automated system can be incorporated.
  • the invention Device characterized by a conveyor, by which the metal drums can be transferred to the holding device are.
  • the invention leaves that through EP 0 377 219 B1 path and returns to the three-roller bend back.
  • the discharged from the bottling plant Metal drums are thus possibly over a Intermediate conveyor through the conveyor to the Pass holding device that takes over the metal barrel and positioned to dent. After denting you can hand the metal drums back to the conveyor and possibly again via a second intermediate conveyor be sluiced back into the normal filling process.
  • the device according to the invention can thus be part a fully automated system. manual Intervention by an operator is no longer necessary required.
  • the conveyor is preferably a turning device for assigned the metal barrels. This allows both Collar, namely the foot collar and the head collar bulge the device according to the invention. After one the collar has bulged, the metal barrel is on returned the conveyor, turned it over and then put it back on passed the holding device and finally bulged.
  • the conveyor itself can expediently be a roller conveyor seen in the conveying direction is preferably V-shaped.
  • the sponsor a magazine for temporarily storing metal drums and / or downstream. With a high volume of too Repairing barrels can be found in this magazine cached and then at a lower one Volume to be processed. The same can be done under Circumstances that have already been repaired may be appropriate store them in the filling plant.
  • FR 2 542 646 A1 Metal drum silent while the roller guide with the Printing roller and the support rollers rotates. This gives a simpler design effort, because the rotating drive of the metal barrels on the model the FR 2 542 646 A1 large frictional forces between one Drive roller and the metal barrel are required. This In practice, friction forces can hardly be represented.
  • Fig. 1 shows a plant part of a filling plant for Metal drums, so-called KEG drums.
  • the empty ones Metal drums 10 are one by a feed conveyor 11 Barrel detection 12 supplied.
  • metal barrels 10 recognized with dented collar 13 and then computer-controlled on a subsequent switch 14 one Transfer intermediate conveyor 15. Not damaged Metal drums 10 pass the switch 14 on a by-pass conveyor 16 directly to barrel cleaning and Bottling plant.
  • the metal drum 10 passes on the intermediate conveyor 15 a light barrier 17. This actuates a stopper 18, the possibly subsequent metal drums 10 stops.
  • the Metal drum 10 then passes into a turning device 19.
  • the metal drum 10 is in the turning device 19 tensioned, raised and then 90 ° with the damaged, bulging collar 13 forward filed again.
  • the metal barrel then reaches one Roller conveyor 20, the metal barrel 10 in the Area of a holding device 21 transported. Here the metal barrel 10 is gripped by the holding device 21 and excited and then in more detail later descriptive bulge.
  • the barrel After bulging the collar 13, the barrel is again from the holding device 21 on the roller conveyor 20 stored. Should the opposite collar 13 of the Metal barrel 10 damaged, the barrel will then rotated again by the turning device 19 by 180 ° and the denting process in the form described above fed. Are both collars 13 of a metal barrel 10 bulged, the barrel is turned by the turning device 19 90 ° in the upright position and by means of a Switch 22 to a second intermediate conveyor 23 postponed.
  • the repaired metal barrel 10 passes here a second light barrier 24, which the stopper 18th actuated so that a new metal barrel 10 to be repaired is released.
  • a further stopper may be provided, so that the intermediate conveyor 23, as well as the Intermediate conveyor 15 as a magazine for temporary storage of metal drums 10 can serve.
  • the roller conveyor 20 is V-shaped in cross section educated. It consists of two rows 25, 26 in each case V-shaped rollers 27, 28. The metal barrel 10 is thereby always exactly in the middle fed.
  • roller conveyor 20 is V-shaped in cross section is arranged in front of the turning device 19 Intermediate conveyor 15 and the intermediate conveyor 23 just are.
  • the metal barrels 10 namely in the area of Intermediate conveyor 15 and 23 transported upright, while being transported by the roller conveyor 20 lying down become.
  • they can also Intermediate conveyor 15 and / or 23 V-shaped if the metal drums 10 also in this area to be transported lying down.
  • the holding device 21 has two with each other arranged pairs of gripper arms 29 and 30.
  • This Gripping arms 29, 30 are articulated via hinge pins 31, 32 connected with holders 33 on the machine frame.
  • the Gripping arms 29, 30 are non-rotatable with the hinge pin 31 or 32 connected.
  • the hinge pins 31 and 32 are in turn rotatably supported in the holders 33.
  • Between the two upper gripper arms 29 is non-rotatable with the upper pivot pin 31 connected operating lever 34 arranged.
  • This is at its free end with one Actuating cylinder 35, preferably one double-acting hydraulic cylinder, connected.
  • the drive of the lower Gripping arms 30 in the opening and closing direction take place via a gear connection with the upper gripper arms 29.
  • intermeshing gears 36, 37 provided that also rotatably on the hinge pin 31, 32 are stored.
  • the actual bulging of the collar 13 takes place through a total of four rollers, namely two backup rollers 38, 39, a pressure roller 40 and a calibration roller 41.
  • the four Rollers 38, 39, 40, 41 are each on one Roller guide 42 mounted and in the radial direction Roller guide 42 adjustable.
  • the platen roller 40 is in Radially seen the inside of the collar 13 and the support rollers 38, 39 and the calibration roller 41 of the Assigned outside of the collar 13.
  • roller guide 42 about its longitudinal axis 43, the at the same time also the longitudinal axis of the dented position (Fig. 5) located metal barrel 10 is rotating driven.
  • a lathe chuck 44 a flanged geared motor 45, which in turn drives a pinion 46, which in turn also a gear 47 meshes on the lathe chuck 44.
  • rollers 38, 39 and Calibration roller 41 By delivering the support rollers 38, 39 and Calibration roller 41 on the one hand and the printing roller 40 on the other hand, during the rotation of the lathe chuck 44 bumps in the collar 13 are gradually bulged out, the rollers 38..41 initially as radial straightening rollers Act. It only comes in the final phase of the delivery movement for the so-called three-roll bending through the support rolls 38, 39 and the pressure roller 40.
  • the roundness of the collar 13 supervised. This can be optoelectrical sensors or mechanical sensors that are used during the Denting process, in-process, the roundness of the collar 13 monitor. As soon as the collar 13 is round again the lathe chuck 44 stopped and the rollers 38..41 open. The metal barrel 10 is now in the mentioned way back on the roller conveyor 20 Opening the gripper arms 29, 30 lowered and can of Roller conveyor 20 are removed. As before mentioned, the metal barrel 10 is possibly by the Turning device 19 rotated and the other collar 13 of the Metal barrel 10 can be dented.
  • the Print roller 40 is such by a recess 48 profiled that they behind a tubular ring 49 on Collar 13 engages.
  • the collars are usually 13 namely not only radially inwards, but also in Seen axial direction of the metal barrel 10, bent. Out for this reason the pressure roller 40 is also axial slidably mounted on a journal 50.
  • a Compression spring specifically a plate spring assembly 51, tensions the The pressure roller 40 in the desired position of the collar 13 or his ring 49 before. 8 shows the pressure roller 40 in this position where they are in their far right Position.
  • the system should also Metal drums bulged 10 different diameters can be.
  • the diameter of each Metal barrel 10 also detected and to a computer Control of the dent process reported. This can be due to particularly simple way of delivering the Gripping arms 29, 30 on a corresponding angle encoder of the gears 36 or 37 or by a displacement sensor on Actuation cylinder take place.
  • About the corresponding Norms of the metal barrels 10 is then the respective one Rotation radius of the foot and head collar of the metal barrel 10 known.
  • the feed movement of the rollers can then be carried out 38..41 via an automatic adjustment 53.
  • Adjustment 53 should be sufficient.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Specific Conveyance Elements (AREA)
  • Rollers For Roller Conveyors For Transfer (AREA)
  • Filling Or Discharging Of Gas Storage Vessels (AREA)
  • Finish Polishing, Edge Sharpening, And Grinding By Specific Grinding Devices (AREA)
  • Rolls And Other Rotary Bodies (AREA)
  • Processing And Handling Of Plastics And Other Materials For Molding In General (AREA)

Claims (10)

  1. Appareil à débosseler des collets (13) aux fûts métallique (10) moyennant un dispositif de débosselage muni d'un rouleau presseur (40), au moins deux cylindres d'appui (38, 39) et un moyen de retenue (21) à tenir lesdits fûts métalliques (10) au cours de l'opération de débosselage, caractérisé par un convoyeur, en particulier un convoyeur à rouleaux par gravité (20), moyennant duquel lesdits fûts métalliques se peuvent transférer audit moyen de retenue (21).
  2. Appareil selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'un système de virage (19) est affecté audit convoyeur (20) afin de tourner lesdits fûts métalliques (10).
  3. Appareil selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'en vue le long de la direction de transport, ledit convoyeur (20) présente une configuration en V.
  4. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce qu'un magasin (convoyeur 15 ou respectivement 23) est relié à l'extrémité en amont et/ou en aval dudit convoyeur (20).
  5. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que lesdits fûts métalliques (10) se peuvent relever dudit convoyeur (20) moyennant ledit moyen de retenue (21), qui comprend, en particulier, au moins une paire de grappins de prise (29, 30) apte à être fermé et ouvert en synchronisme mutuel, lesdits grappins étant relié l'un à l'autre moyennant des engrenages.
  6. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé par un moyen à détecter le diamètre desdits fûts métalliques (10), moyennant duquel un moyen (53) peut être commandé afin d'ajuster le rayon de pliage dudit collet (13), audit moyen à détecter le diamètre détectant, en particulier, l'angle de fermeture desdits grappins de prise (29, 30) moyennant un capteur de déplacement, par exemple, à un cylindre de commande (35), ou respectivement moyennant un capteur d'angle.
  7. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que ladite opération de débosselage peut être surveillé au cours de processus.
  8. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que ledit rouleau presseur (40) est un rouleau à profil à un alésage, qui est mobile, en sens axial, contre un paquet de rondelles Belleville (51) et auquel est affecté un rouleau de calibrage (41) en tant que l'élément de contre-pression.
  9. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que ledit rouleau presseur (40), ledit rouleau de calibrage (41) et lesdits rouleaux d'appui (38, 39) s'appuient sur un guide de rouleaux (42), pendant que ledit fût métallique (10) est fixé et serré dans ledit moyen de retenue.
  10. Appareil selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce qu'en position de débosselage, des axes dudit rouleau presseur (40) et desdits rouleaux d'appui (38, 39) s'étendent l'un en parallèle à l'autre et à un axe longitudinal du fût métallique (10).
EP99120604A 1998-10-19 1999-10-18 Dispositif pour débosseler les collerettes de tonneaux métalliques Expired - Lifetime EP0997205B1 (fr)

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