EP2393380A2 - Machine de coulée - Google Patents

Machine de coulée

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EP2393380A2
EP2393380A2 EP10703835A EP10703835A EP2393380A2 EP 2393380 A2 EP2393380 A2 EP 2393380A2 EP 10703835 A EP10703835 A EP 10703835A EP 10703835 A EP10703835 A EP 10703835A EP 2393380 A2 EP2393380 A2 EP 2393380A2
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cylinder
plate
casting
nozzle
casting machine
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Hannjo Boden
Bernhard Bauer
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Buehler AG
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G1/00—Cocoa; Cocoa products, e.g. chocolate; Substitutes therefor
    • A23G1/04—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products
    • A23G1/042—Manufacture or treatment of liquids, creams, pastes, granules, shreds or powders
    • A23G1/045—Weighing or portioning apparatus
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G1/00—Cocoa; Cocoa products, e.g. chocolate; Substitutes therefor
    • A23G1/04—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products
    • A23G1/20—Apparatus for moulding, cutting or dispensing chocolate
    • A23G1/201—Apparatus not covered by groups A23G1/21 - A23G1/28
    • A23G1/205—Apparatus in which the material is shaped at least partially in a mould, in the hollows of a surface, a drum or an endless band, or by drop-by-drop casting or dispensing of the material on a surface, e.g. injection moulding or transfer moulding
    • A23G1/206—Apparatus for laying down material in moulds or drop-by-drop on a surface, optionally with associated heating, cooling, portioning, cutting cast-tail or anti-drip device
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/0205—Manufacture or treatment of liquids, pastes, creams, granules, shred or powder
    • A23G3/021—Weighing, portioning apparatus
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/0236—Shaping of liquid, paste, powder; Manufacture of moulded articles, e.g. modelling, moulding, calendering
    • A23G3/0252—Apparatus in which the material is shaped at least partially in a mould, in the hollows of a surface, a drum, an endless band, or by a drop-by-drop casting or dispensing of the material on a surface, e.g. injection moulding, transfer moulding
    • A23G3/0257—Apparatus for laying down material in moulds or drop-by-drop on a surface, optionally with the associated heating, cooling, portioning, cutting cast-tail, anti-drip device
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G3/00—Sweetmeats; Confectionery; Marzipan; Coated or filled products
    • A23G3/02—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of sweetmeats or confectionery; Accessories therefor
    • A23G3/20—Apparatus for coating or filling sweetmeats or confectionery
    • A23G3/2007—Manufacture of filled articles, composite articles, multi-layered articles
    • A23G3/2023—Manufacture of filled articles, composite articles, multi-layered articles the material being shaped at least partially in a mould, in the hollows of a surface, a drum, an endless band or by drop-by-drop casting or dispensing of the materials on a surface or an article being completed
    • A23G3/203—Apparatus for laying down the liquid, pasty or solid materials in moulds or drop-by-drop, on a surface or an article being completed, optionally with the associated heating, cooling, proportioning, cutting cast-tail, antidripping device

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a casting machine for casting a flowable mass, in particular a liquid mass with suspended solid particles.
  • a casting machine in which a mass container is arranged above a piston system.
  • a valve tube assumes a suction position, so that the passage from the mass container via the valve tube to the piston is free.
  • the pistons are withdrawn and suck mass from the mass container.
  • the valve tube is rotated closing the passage to the mass container and at the same time releasing the passage from the piston to the nozzles.
  • the pistons are inserted and meter the mass through the nozzles into a mold. Changes to the casting pattern can only be achieved by replacing the nozzle plate with nozzles and distributor plate.
  • the invention has the object of developing a casting machine such that a highly flexible adjustment of the Giessrasters can be achieved by structurally simple means, the means can be standardized, and structurally simple means to provide it. Furthermore, the cleaning should be simplified, so that a cleaning in position is possible.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention with a casting machine for casting a flowable mass, in particular a liquid mass with suspended solid particles, with at least one mass container for receiving the mass and with a casting device having at least one or more parallel or angularly arranged cylinder plates, wherein the cylinder plates each have at least one cylinder bore for receiving a pumping device.
  • the mass to be poured passes through G confusevoriquessötechnisch in the molds.
  • the casting device according to the invention has at least one or more cylinder plates arranged parallel or at an angle to one another, a modular arrangement can take place, whereby the flexibility of the arrangement of the casting device within the casting machine can be increased, ie.
  • the desired Giesstruck can be easily changed by the arrangement of the cylinder plates.
  • the individually arranged cylinder plates are particularly easy to clean.
  • the casting machine according to the invention has at least one cylinder bore in the cylinder plates, which can receive a pumping device.
  • the mass to be poured can be brought quickly and in a targeted manner from the mass container to the desired location. Due to the design improvements, the construction according to the invention obtains a simple and cost-effective structure, which at the same time is advantageous for a rapid casting process of the masses.
  • the preset temperature of the masses is retained because of the low friction energy and the rapid casting process.
  • a particularly advantageous development of the invention provides that the mass container can be arranged above or to the side of the casting device. This arrangement allows easy grounding of the mass container in the casting.
  • the casting apparatus may further comprise at least one piston plate, a plurality of pumping devices and nozzles.
  • the casting device may comprise at least one clamping ring with a nozzle, so that the nozzle can be optimally biased by the clamping ring and fixed in the casting device.
  • the casting device can have at least one nozzle plate with at least one fastening device, in particular a thread, for fastening a clamping ring or a nozzle.
  • the one or more parallel or angularly arranged cylinder plates form a cylinder battery.
  • the cylinder battery can be completely replaced in the casting machine.
  • the cylinder battery may have at least one intermediate plate and / or at least one end plate.
  • a plurality of cylinder plates can be connected to each other and further, the cylinder plates can be connected to the intermediate plates and / or the end plates.
  • one or more intermediate plates can be arranged between the parallel or angularly arranged cylinder plates, thereby adjusting the grid of the G manvortechnischsö Maschinenen.
  • the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates are arranged vertically or at an angle in the casting machine.
  • the leadership of the mass from the mass container can be optimally guaranteed up to a G confusevoriquessö réelle.
  • the cylinder bores may have a coated surface. This coating prevents adhesion of the mass in the casting device.
  • the cylinder bores are advantageously arranged in the plates in a resettable grid, for example in one or more parallel rows which are perpendicular to the cylinder axis.
  • the cylinder plates may have at least one fastening device, in particular a thread, for fastening a clamping ring and / or a nozzle.
  • the nozzle can then be mounted directly in the cylinder plate. It is possible that the nozzle is first clamped in the clamping ring and this is then fixed in the cylinder plate.
  • a support frame can receive the casting device in the casting machine and enable the secure attachment of the casting device during operation of the casting machine.
  • At least one distributor container or mass container can be arranged above the casting device.
  • the distribution tank can pick up the mass to be poured from the mass container and forward it to the cylinder battery.
  • the piston plate may have one or more openings, which is / are connectable to the one or more pumping devices.
  • the pumping devices When all the pumping devices are connected to the piston plate, the pumping devices can be moved synchronously by the movement of the piston plate. As a result, the mass to be poured is output synchronously through the nozzles.
  • the piston plate may have holes arranged substantially horizontally. In these holes, a fluid can be introduced, which heats the piston plate and can prevent cooling and thus solidification of the mass to be poured above or in the mass container. Especially during system downtime, it is advantageous to keep the mass at the desired casting temperature.
  • the piston plate can be connectable to the distributor hood and / or the mass container.
  • the pumping device consists of a piston and a valve arranged thereon.
  • the valve can be moved on a preferably tubular piston in the cylinder bore of the cylinder plate.
  • the piston may preferably be made of steel, aluminum, ceramic or plastic.
  • the valve may comprise a valve body having a substantially conical shape and at least one slot, preferably three slots.
  • the at least one slot may extend axially from a tip of the conical shape over the valve body and form valve flaps.
  • the valve may consist of an elastic material, in particular NBR. Due to the action of force generated by the mass to be cast can be moved, the valve flaps can be moved and open the valve for a flow of the mass to be poured.
  • the cylinder plate may have at least one channel in at least one outer surface for the guidance of a fluid, in particular water.
  • the channel may e.g. be arranged horizontally or vertically on the cylinder plate.
  • a fluid can circulate, which cools or warms the cylinder plates and thus also tempered to be poured mass accordingly.
  • the channels may be arranged adjacent to the cylinder bores in order to bring the fluid particularly close to the mass in the casting device.
  • the channels of the cylinder plates arranged in parallel can be arranged meander-shaped in the cylinder battery, so that a sufficient circulation of the fluid can be ensured within the casting apparatus.
  • the channels are preferably arranged horizontally to the vertical cylinder bores on the outer surfaces of the cylinder plates.
  • the cylinder plates have only small wall thicknesses in the area of the cylinder bores, so that the ducts on the outer surfaces in the region of the cylinder bores can be guided past the mass located in the cylinder bore, particularly close to them. Due to the low material thickness in this area, the temperature of the fluid can very quickly adjust the temperature of the mass in the casting apparatus. So that the fluid can flow between the outer surfaces of the cylinder plates arranged parallel to one another, the cylinder plates have at least one connecting bore between the channels of the outer surfaces. As a result, the meandering flow of the fluid through the casting device can be ensured.
  • the intermediate plates may have channels for fluid guidance, said channels may correspond to the channels of the cylinder plates. If the casting device consists of cylinder plates and intermediate plates, the circulation of the fluid in the casting device can be ensured by the connection of the channels.
  • the end plate may have at least one channel and supply and / or Ab technologicalö réelleen for the fluid, which may correspond to at least one channel of the cylinder plate and / or intermediate plate. For optimum circulation, at least one channel of a cylinder battery can be connected to at least one channel of another cylinder battery.
  • the nozzle plate can be arranged on at least one cylinder plate and / or cylinder battery.
  • the nozzle plate may have one or more openings for receiving one or more clamping rings or nozzles.
  • the openings of the nozzle plate can correspond in the upper area with the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates. In the lower region of the nozzle plate, the openings can be arranged offset from the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates.
  • the holes in the nozzle plate extend obliquely from a cylinder plate facing surface to the opposite surface into which the nozzles and / or clamping rings are screwed. With such a trained nozzle plate, the arrangement of the outlet openings of the casting device can be further flexibilized.
  • any number of pistons or pumping devices can lead the mass to be poured into only one nozzle.
  • a piston or a pumping device can feed several nozzles with the mass.
  • the clamping ring may be arranged in the nozzle plate or the cylinder plate. If the casting machine has no nozzle plate, the clamping ring can also be positioned in the cylinder plate.
  • the clamping ring may comprise a nozzle or a valve and suspend this bias.
  • the nozzle in the casting machine made of an elastic material and having a cylindrical valve body having a flange and a first opening. This area can be fixed in the clamping ring or directly in the nozzle plate or cylinder plate.
  • the nozzle may have at least three nozzle flaps which connect to the nozzle body and extend over an axial area away from the first opening to a central axis of the nozzle body and close a second nozzle opening.
  • the nozzle flaps are preferably concave.
  • a transition area from the cylindrical nozzle body to the nozzle flaps may have material reinforcements to prevent the valve flaps from entering this area.
  • the nozzle flaps can be separated by at least two slots. The mass to be poured presses against the nozzle flaps and opens them, so that the second nozzle opening is opened and the mass can escape through the nozzle.
  • the pumping device may be arranged in a casting machine, which has a casting device, which consists of several cylinder plates. Since the cylinder plates allow flexibility in the setting of the casting grid, a system is necessary, which is just as flexible adjustable and leads to the mass to be poured through the casting device.
  • the inventive pumping device consists of a tubular piston and a valve arranged thereon. This valve may be a conical shape or a membrane with at least one slot. This valve is made of an elastic material, e.g. NBR, which can be deformed by pressurization, so that the mass to be poured can escape from the slot of the valve.
  • the valve may be positioned in any area of the piston.
  • the piston travels with the valve mounted in the cylinder bore in the cylinder plate and guides the mass to be poured from the mass container to an outlet nozzle of the casting device.
  • the piston of the pumping device can be connected to the piston plate of the casting machine.
  • All pistons, which are arranged in the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates are mounted in the piston plate, these are moved synchronously by movement of the piston plate in the cylinder plates.
  • the piston and the cylinder bores in the cylinder plates absorb a dosing volume of the mass to be poured.
  • the dosing volume can be changed. So it is possible that first the mass flows from the mass container into the tubular piston and through the valve into the cylinder bore of the cylinder plate. Since the cylinder bore is closed by a valve, the mass initially can not escape. Depending on the position of the piston inside the cylinder bore, the dosing volume can be adjusted.
  • the nozzle can be opened on the cylinder plate and the mass passes through the metering out of the casting device.
  • the valve has a valve body with a substantially conical shape. At least one slot extends over a tip of the conical shape over the valve body and forms two valve flaps. These flaps can be pushed apart by the pressure of the mass to be poured so that the valve is opened.
  • the valve may have, perpendicular to the one slot, a further slot which also extends over the valve body via a tip of the conical shape.
  • the two slots form at least four valve flaps.
  • the valve consists of an elastic material, in particular NBR, so that it can be actuated by the pressure of the mass.
  • each other cylinder plates form a cylinder battery.
  • the cylinder plates each have at least one cylinder bore and the arrangement of the cylinder plates, the casting grid can be flexibly adjusted.
  • Each cylinder plate has in each case at least one channel on an outer surface of the cylinder plate. In this channel, a fluid, in particular water, are performed and the temperature of the cylinder plates and the mass located in the cylinder bore influence accordingly.
  • the channel may be arranged in the cylinder plate adjacent to the cylinder bores.
  • the channels of the parallel cylinder plates are arranged meander-shaped in the cylinder battery and can ensure a uniform temperature distribution within the cylinder battery.
  • the channels are preferably arranged horizontally to the vertical cylinder bores on the outer surfaces.
  • the cylinder plates have at least one communication bore between the channels of the outer surfaces, to allow the circulation of the fluid. If the cylinder battery has at least one intermediate plate which allows flexible adjustment of the casting grid, this intermediate plate also has at least one channel for fluid guidance, which corresponds to at least one channel of the cylinder plate, thereby ensuring fluid delivery within the cylinder battery.
  • the cylinder battery may have at least one end plate with at least one channel and supply and / or discharge openings for the fluid.
  • the channel of the end plate may correspond to at least one channel of the cylinder plate and / or intermediate plate and promote the fluid delivery through the cylinder battery.
  • This cylinder battery has a channel which can be connected to at least one channel of a further cylinder battery.
  • the fluid can also be transported by a plurality of juxtaposed cylinder batteries in a casting machine.
  • the nozzle plate has openings for the passage of a mass.
  • the openings correspond in the upper region of the nozzle plate with the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates and in the lower region, the openings are arranged offset to the cylinder bores of the cylinder plates, ie the opening in the nozzle plate has no vertical axis, but two mutually offset axes. Nevertheless, the bore is formed continuously in the nozzle plate.
  • the openings in the nozzle plates each have a Befest Trentsonsforhchtung for one or more clamping rings or nozzles.
  • the clamping rings may have a thread which is screwed into the fastening device of the nozzle plate openings.
  • the nozzles can also be fixed directly in the opening of the nozzle plate, for example glued or vulcanized.
  • the nozzle plate may be arranged on at least one cylinder plate and / or at least one cylinder battery.
  • the nozzle consists of an elastic material and is constructed in such a way that it can be inserted into the casting device, depending on the casting pitch.
  • the nozzle has a cylindrical nozzle body with a flange and a first opening.
  • the flange is disposed in the region of the first opening and allows the attachment of the nozzle in a clamping ring or adapter or in a nozzle plate or in the cylinder plate.
  • the nozzle is designed so that the first opening always has a substantially round diameter and is open.
  • the nozzle has at least two nozzle flaps, which connect to the nozzle body.
  • the nozzle flaps extend over an axial area away from the first opening to a central axis of the nozzle body and close off a second nozzle opening, ie, the nozzle flaps are disposed on the nozzle body or the flange and are also partially cylindrical in shape. Then the nozzle flaps extend from this cylindrical body to a central axis and meet at one point. The nozzle flaps are arranged so that they close the second opening of the nozzle. This is particularly supported by the concave shapes of the nozzle flaps.
  • the nozzle flaps may have an elastic bias in an assembled state, which close the second nozzle opening up to a certain force introduction.
  • a transition region from the cylindrical nozzle body to the nozzle flaps may have material reinforcements.
  • the nozzle flaps are separated by at least three slots.
  • the slots meet in a common starting point, which lies in the central axis of the nozzle.
  • the slots extend from this starting point and each end in one of the material reinforcements.
  • the material reinforcements prevent the slots from tearing out when the nozzle is pressurized by the mass to be poured. The mass pushes against the nozzle flaps and opens them, so that the mass can escape. It is conceivable that instead of the piston plate, the cylinder plate are moved to produce a pumping action.
  • the object is further achieved by a casting plate with the features of claim 65.
  • the casting plate for a casting apparatus in a casting machine, preferably as described above, according to the invention can be connected to at least one further casting plate.
  • the connected casting plates form a casting plate battery, preferably a cylinder battery as described above.
  • the mold plates can be combined in a freely selectable number and thus form corresponding casting grid, which can be adjusted according to the needs of the user. Different casting patterns may have different numbers and / or arrangements of casting openings.
  • the connecting surfaces for adjacent plates ie the surfaces of the casting plates facing each other, fit together.
  • the surfaces are flat, so that they lie flat against each other.
  • elevations and / or depressions may be formed which engage in corresponding depressions and / or elevations of the adjacent plate, for example in the manner of a tongue and groove connection.
  • the casting plate also has at least one recess which is designed in such a way that the casting plate battery has at least one pouring channel, which can receive at least one pumping device and / or can be connected to at least one pumping device.
  • the at least one casting channel is preferably cylindrical and preferably has a round cross-sectional area.
  • the recesses are advantageously arranged in a grid that can be continued, so that a uniform casting pattern is produced in composite casting plates.
  • the recesses are individually juxtaposed, ie arranged in a row.
  • a casting plate may also have a plurality of rows of recesses, or have a plurality of recesses aligned in a casting pattern.
  • at least part of the pumping device engages in a pouring channel of the casting plate battery.
  • a piston may be slidably disposed in the pouring channel.
  • the casting plate battery can also be connected only to a pumping device, so that only the flowable mass is driven through the pouring channel of the casting plate battery by means of a pressure difference, ie is pressed or pulled.
  • the Giessplattenbatterie is connectable for example with a conventional pumping device.
  • the recess can be designed so that a casting plate has at least one casting channel, so that the casting plate can accommodate at least one pumping device and / or can be connected to at least one pumping device.
  • a casting plate can be used independently of other casting plates.
  • the casting channel is formed by a cylinder bore in the casting plate.
  • the mold plate may have at least one recess which is formed so as to form, together with an adjacent plate, a pouring channel adapted to receive at least one pumping device and / or to be connectable to at least one pumping device.
  • the adjacent plate is preferably a further casting plate.
  • the pouring channel can also be created in cooperation with an intermediate or end plate.
  • the channel can be created by the neighboring plate covers a recess open to an outside of the casting plate.
  • the casting channel can also be formed by corresponding recesses of adjacent plates.
  • the casting plates are designed, for example, as half shells. Only two joined casting plates then form one or more casting channels.
  • the recesses can be arranged on one or both sides of the connection of the casting plate, so that the casting plates can be assembled serially to form a casting plate battery.
  • a casting plate with recesses at only one End side can be used as end plate.
  • a casting plate may have at least one further recess, which is designed such that a tempering fluid, in particular a coolant, can be conducted through the casting plate battery.
  • the recess may be designed so that it forms at least a portion of a tempering channel independently or together with a corresponding recess in an adjacent plate.
  • the tempering channel does not have to run in the casting direction, but the recesses can be arranged so that the tempering channel runs transversely to the casting direction or meandering through the casting plate battery.
  • the casting plate according to the invention can be connected not only to at least one further casting plate, but also to at least one intermediate plate and / or at least one end plate.
  • the Giessplattenbattehen can be put together even more flexible in this way, for example, one or more intermediate plates can be arranged as a spacer between one or more connected mold plates,
  • the total size of a G intelligentplattenbatterie be adapted to a particular support frame, the casting grid is still freely selectable.
  • the intermediate and / or end plates preferably also have recesses which, preferably together with the recesses in the mold plates, allow the temperature control medium to be passed through the cast plate battery.
  • connection element Two or more plates can be joined together by means of an external connection element, for example with a clamp-like enclosure.
  • the casting plate has at least one connection element Connection with at least one further casting plate and / or at least one intermediate plate and / or at least one end plate.
  • the connecting element may allow the anchoring or insertion of an external connecting element, for example having an opening which lies with the corresponding openings adjacent plates on an axis and which serves to receive a screw connection.
  • the connection element can also be designed as a connecting element itself, which hooks, for example, in an adjacent plate and / or can be fixed directly to this.
  • the object is further achieved by a casting plate battery with the features of claim 71.
  • the casting plate battery consists of at least two casting plates, as described above and in particular additionally from at least one intermediate plate and / or at least one end plate.
  • a casting plate battery is preferably composed of similar casting plates, ie casting plates of the same format with the same number and shape of recesses.
  • a casting plate battery can also consist of different casting plates.
  • the object is further achieved by a casting machine with the features of claim 72, preferably as described above, for the pouring of a flowable mass, in particular a liquid mass with suspended solid particles, with at least one G devisplattenbatterie as described above, the at least one Casting plate, preferably at least two casting plates exists.
  • the object is further achieved by a modular system having the features of claim 73.
  • the modular system includes casting plates, as described above, which are connectable to one another and have the recesses, wherein casting plates of differently formed recesses and / or different numbers of Ausappelpressed cavities and / or different casting patterns are available for forming a casting plate battery.
  • the modular system may also include intermediate and end plates. Depending on the mold plate to be filled, plates for a freely selectable casting pattern can be selected from the modular system.
  • Figure 1 shows the prior art of a casting machine with a valve tube
  • FIG. 2 an isometric view of a casting device according to the invention with a mass container
  • Figure 3 is a detail view of the casting apparatus with mass container
  • Figure 4 is an isometric view of the casting apparatus without mass container
  • Figure 5 is a sectional view taken along the line A-A in Figure 4.
  • Figure 6 is an isometric view of two interconnected cylinder batteries
  • Figure 7 is a sectional view of the cylinder battery shown in Figure 6;
  • Figure 8 is a sectional view of a cylinder plate with nozzle plate, clamping ring and
  • Figure 9 is a front view of the nozzle
  • Fig. 10 is a sectional view of the nozzle shown in Fig. 9;
  • Figure 11 is an isometric view of the nozzle shown in Figures 9 and 10;
  • Figure 12 is a front view of the valve
  • Figure 13 is a sectional view of the valve shown in Fig. 12 and
  • Figure 14 is an isometric view of the valve shown in Figures 12 and 13.
  • FIG. 1 represents the prior art mentioned at the beginning of a casting machine with rotatable valve tubes.
  • a mass container is arranged above a piston system and ensures the supply of the compound to be poured.
  • the intake position (right)
  • the passage from the mass container via the valve tube to the piston is free.
  • the pistons are withdrawn and suck mass from the mass container.
  • the valve tube is rotated, closing the passage to the mass container and simultaneously releasing the passage from the pistons through pouring channels to the nozzles.
  • the pistons are pushed back in and meter the mass through the nozzles into the mold.
  • Figures 2, 3 and 4 show the inventive casting device 2 with a mass container 3 in a casting machine 1.
  • the casting apparatus 2 in the casting machine 1 has a mass container 3, a piston plate 7, pumping devices 11, a plurality of casting plates 4, in particular cylinder plates, and intermediate plates 5 and end plates 6, clamping rings 9 and nozzles 10.
  • the mass flows vertically from the mass container 3 through openings 15 of a piston plate 7 in the pumping devices 11 and through the mold plates 4 and the clamping rings 9 and nozzles 10 from the casting device 2 out.
  • the mass container 3 is arranged above the casting device 2 and is fed by a tank (not shown).
  • the piston plate 7 is made of a food grade material and is connected to the mass container 3.
  • the piston plate 7 has a circumferential sealing groove, in which a seal is inserted, so that the connection between the mass container 3 and the piston plate 7 is sealed.
  • the piston plate 7 has a plurality of openings, in each of which threads are cut, so that the pumping means 11 are fastened thereto. All provided in the casting apparatus 2 pumping devices 11 are mounted in the openings 15 in the piston plate 7 and are moved vertically by the piston plate 7. Furthermore, the piston plate 7 in the figure, not shown on horizontal holes. In these holes, a fluid is guided, which heats the piston plate 7.
  • FIG. 5 shows the arrangement of the pumping devices 11 in the casting apparatus 2.
  • the pumping devices 11 are in the recesses 13, here cylinder bores, the Casting plates, in this case cylinder plates 4, moves.
  • Several mold plates 4 form a casting plate battery 12, in this case, a plurality of cylinder plates 4 form a cylinder battery 12.
  • the cylinder plates 4 are fastened together.
  • FIG. 5 shows that intermediate plates 5 are arranged between the individual cylinder plates 4 and integrated in the respective cylinder battery 12.
  • the plates 4, 5 have connection elements 30, via which the plates are connectable. In this case, an opening 31 is provided in the connection element 30, by means of which a screw connection 32 can be guided, as shown in FIG.
  • Each cylinder battery 12 has, as shown in Figure 6, at least one end plate 6.
  • the cylinder plates 4, intermediate plates 5 and end plates 6 are connected together.
  • clamping rings 9 are screwed.
  • the clamping rings 9 comprise nozzles 10.
  • Each pumping device 11 consists of a piston 16, a valve 17 and a sealing ring (not shown).
  • the piston plate 7 moves the pumping devices 11 synchronously and moves the pistons 16 with the valve 17 in the cylinder bores 13 of the cylinder plates 5.
  • the pistons 16 and the valves 17 are moved relative to the cylinder bore 13. This relative movement causes a pumping action.
  • the mass to be poured is guided by the mass container 3 through the openings 15 of the piston plate 7 in the piston 16 of the pumping device 11.
  • the valve 17 prevents leakage of the mass from the piston 16.
  • the valve 17 is designed such that it opens from a certain pressure applied by the mass. Then the mass flows from the piston 16 into the cylinder bore 13 of the cylinder plate 4.
  • the attached to the cylinder plate 4 and the clamping ring 9 nozzle 10 is also designed such that it opens only from a certain pressurization by the ground located in the casting device 2.
  • the mass first passes from the mass container 3 through the openings 15 of the piston plate 7 into the pistons 16 of the pumping devices 11 and then into the cylinder bores 13 of the cylinder plates 4. If the desired dosing Volume is reached in the casting apparatus 2, the piston plate 7 is pushed into the cylinder plates 4 and cylinder batteries 12 and poured the mass of the nozzles 10 in the molds.
  • the valve 17 of the pumping devices 11 is shown in FIGS. 12, 13 and 14.
  • the valve 17 is made of an elastic material, in particular NBR.
  • the valve has a valve body 18 with a conical shape and a flange adjacent thereto.
  • the valve 17 has a first opening in a cylindrical portion of the flange.
  • the conical shape of the valve body is achieved by at least two valve flaps 20 formed by slots 19 in the valve body.
  • the slots 19 extend over a tip of the conical shape on the valve body 18 to the flange.
  • the slots 19 have a common starting point in the apex of the conical shape and terminate in relief areas at the conical area.
  • These relief areas are holes or material removal on the valve body, so that the ends of the slots 19 do not tear out after movements of the valve flaps 20 in this area.
  • the mass to be poured presses against the arranged in the valve 17 surfaces of the valve flaps 20 so that they open a second opening of the valve 17 and the mass flows out.
  • the valve 17 is designed such that the valve flaps 20 open the second opening only in the flow direction of the mass.
  • the mass located in the cylinder bore 13 presses counter to the flow direction of the mass against the valves 17 and close them.
  • the vertically downwardly moving pumping devices 11 then push the mass through the nozzles 10, which also open in the flow direction of the mass. Since the mass does not pass through the valve 17 back into the pumping device 11, the entire mass in the cylinder bore 13 is discharged from the nozzles 10.
  • FIG. 6 shows the structure of G confuseplattenbattehen, in the present case of cylinder batteries 12.
  • Each cylinder battery 12 consists of a plurality of cylinder plates 4, intermediate plates 5 and a respective end plate 6.
  • the plates 4, 5, 6 are interconnected.
  • the cylinder battery 12 is mounted in the casting apparatus 2.
  • each cylinder plate 4 has channels 21 on both vertically aligned outer surfaces. Through these channels 21 flows in the cylinder battery 12 a Tem- perierfluid.
  • the channels 21 in the cylinder plates 4 extend horizontally in the cylinder battery 12. In this case, the fluid is passed close to the cylinder bores 13 in the cylinder plates 4.
  • the walls of the cylinder plates 4 are particularly thin in the area between the cylinder bores 13 and the channels 21 in the intermediate plates 5, so that the fluid emits the stored heat energy to the cylinder plates 4 and the mass to be poured in the cylinder bores 13.
  • the mass is optimally tempered.
  • the intermediate plates 5 also have channels for the fluid.
  • the end plates 6 have channels for the fluid and supply and discharge openings for the fluid.
  • the channels of the end plates 6, intermediate plates 5 and cylinder plates 4 of the cylinder batteries 12 in a casting device 2 are connected to each other, so that the fluid flows from a supply port of a cover plate 6 through the entire cylinder battery 12 to a discharge opening.
  • the interconnected channels 21 are arranged meander-shaped in the cylinder battery 12 and flow around the cylinder bores 13 in the cylinder plates 4.
  • Each cylinder plate 4 has a connecting bore 22 through which the fluid passes from an outer surface of the cylinder plate 4 to the opposite vertical outer surface.
  • Each cylinder battery 12 has connection channels for the fluid guide. The fluid flows from a cylinder battery 12 to the next adjoining cylinder battery 12.
  • the flowing through the cylinder bore 13 fluid is tempered water.
  • the heat energy stored in the water is released in the meandering path through the cylinder battery 12 to the material of the cylinder plates 4.
  • the surfaces of the cylinder bores 13 located in the cylinder plates 4 are tempered by the fluid guide and influence the mass to be poured therein.
  • a horizontal surface of the cylinder battery 12 mounted in the casting apparatus 2 is adjacent to the piston plate 7.
  • the cylinder battery 12 is vertically disposed in the casting apparatus.
  • the opposite to the adjacent to the piston plate 7 surface of the cylinder battery 12 horizontal second surface of the cylinder battery 12 has fastening devices for the equipped with the nozzles 10 clamping rings 9.
  • the cylinder plates 4 in the cylinder battery 12 have these fastening devices.
  • the fastening devices are internal threads.
  • the clamping rings 9 have external threads which engage in the internal threads of the cylinder plates 4. be screwed.
  • the clamping rings 9 fasten the nozzles 10 in the cylinder plates 4 of the cylinder batteries 12.
  • FIG. 5 shows the clamping rings 9 mounted in the cylinder plates 4.
  • the connecting bores between the threads for the clamping rings 9 and the cylinder bores 13 in the cylinder plates 4 are arranged obliquely in order to adapt the outlet openings to the desired casting pattern.
  • the nozzles 10 fixed in the clamping rings 9 are shown in FIGS. 9, 10 and 11.
  • the nozzles 10 are made of an elastic material, in particular NBR.
  • the nozzles 10 have a cylindrical nozzle body 24 with a flange and a first opening 25. This flange is fixed in the clamping ring 9 or directly in the nozzle plate 8 or the cylinder plate 4.
  • the nozzle 10 has a second opening 27 which is closed by three nozzle flaps 26.
  • the nozzle flaps 26 extend over an axial region of the nozzle 10, away from the first opening 25 and to a central axis of the nozzle body 24.
  • the nozzle flaps 26 are pressed apart and give the second opening 27 for the passage of the mass free.
  • material reinforcements 28 are provided between the nozzle flaps 26. Because the nozzle flaps 26 are formed by slits 29 in the plastic material of the nozzle 10, the nozzle material ruptures in this area at low load. The accumulations of material 28 prevent tearing of the nozzle material in the region of these slots 29.
  • the nozzles 10 remain dimensionally stable even after repeated opening of the nozzle flaps 26 and the second nozzle opening 27.
  • the nozzle flaps 26 are concave and close to a cylindrical portion of the nozzle body 24, which adjoins the flange on.
  • the material reinforcements 28 are formed in the form of balls with relief holes.
  • a nozzle 10 may be disposed on the piston 16 of the pumping device 11.
  • FIG. 8 shows a second embodiment of the casting device according to the invention.
  • the cylinder battery 12 has two horizontal outer surfaces.
  • the cylinder battery 12 is arranged vertically in the casting device 2.
  • the opposite of the piston plate 7 lying outer surface of the cylinder battery 12 is the surface of the mass exit from the casting device 2.
  • a nozzle plate 8 can be fastened.
  • the clamping rings 9 are attached to the nozzle 10. It is conceivable to arrange the nozzle 10 directly in the nozzle plate 8.
  • the nozzle plate 8 has mass flow holes, which correspond to the cylinder bores 13 in the region adjoining the cylinder bores 13 of the cylinder plates 4.
  • the outlet region arranged opposite this inlet region of the nozzle plate 8 has a vertical axis arranged parallel thereto.
  • the outlet openings of the nozzle plate 8 are arranged parallel to the cylinder bores 13 of the cylinder plate 4. This sheds the mass according to a given casting pattern or grid.

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L'invention vise à perfectionner une machine de coulée (1) pour couler une matière coulante, de sorte à permettre un réglage extrêmement souple de la grille de coulée par des moyens de conception simple, lesdits moyens pouvant être normalisés. A cet effet, il est prévu une machine de coulée (1) comportant au moins un réservoir de matière (3) pour contenir la matière à couler et un dispositif de coulée (2) qui présente au moins une ou plusieurs plaques de cylindre (4) montées parallèles ou en angle. Lesdites plaques de cylindre (4) présentent respectivement au moins un alésage (13) pour loger un dispositif de pompe (11).
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