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US3916667A
US3916667A US440765A US44076574A US3916667A US 3916667 A US3916667 A US 3916667A US 440765 A US440765 A US 440765A US 44076574 A US44076574 A US 44076574A US 3916667 A US3916667 A US 3916667A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J7/00—Hammers; Forging machines with hammers or die jaws acting by impact
    • B21J7/02—Special design or construction
    • B21J7/14—Forging machines working with several hammers
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    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J7/00—Hammers; Forging machines with hammers or die jaws acting by impact
    • B21J7/20—Drives for hammers; Transmission means therefor
    • B21J7/22—Drives for hammers; Transmission means therefor for power hammers
    • B21J7/28—Drives for hammers; Transmission means therefor for power hammers operated by hydraulic or liquid pressure

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  • ABSTRACT [30] Foreign Application Priority Data A for in machine havin airs of o osed hydraulig g g P PP Feb. 10, 1973 Germany 2306566 Cally driven forging tools for forging rod-Shaped Workpieces.
  • Valve control means is provided whereby pre- 52 U.S. (:1. 72/402; 72/403; 72/441; determined valves are opened and closed in depen- 72/453 dence upon the operating cycle of a pumping arrange- [51] Int. Cl.
  • the UNITED STATES PATENTS arrangement enables pairs of opposed forging tools to 3,451,249 6/1969 Sharon 72/402 be brought mto opmuon alternately 3,645,126 2/1972 Kralowetz 72/402 1 Claim, 1 Drawing Figure FORGING MACHINES
  • the invention relates to forging machines with a plurality of working cylinders associated with forging tools or saddles for surrounding a rod-shaped workpiece and reducing the workpiece cross section by lateral pressure.
  • the pistons of the working cylinders are subjected to the action of a substantially constant retraction force and are each connected to a pressure cylinder, the pistons of said pressure cylinders being mechanically connected to a drive mechanism for periodically advancing and retracting them.
  • the valves connected to the connecting pipes extending between the working cylinders and the pressure cylinders are controllable by the drive mechanism.
  • valves are controlled in unison by the drive mechanism in such a way that the normally closed valves are simultaneously opened at a corresponding position of the drive mechanism so that communication is established between the working cylinders of the forging saddles and the fluid reservoir.
  • an unpressurized pressure medium circulation is obtained so that the operation of all the working pistons of the forging saddles can be simultaneously and intentionally interrupted at any time.
  • An object of the invention is the provision of a drive with hydraulic synchronizing control for a forging machine of the kind mentioned above which permits the individual working pistons of the forging saddles to be driven in accordance with the predetermined requirements.
  • valves are controllable independently of each other for movement into an open position connecting the working cylinder with a fluid reservoir via the connecting pipes. It is of importance for the invention that the valves can be brought individually, i.e., independently of each other, into their open positions in which there is uninterrupted communication between the reof opposed pairs of sides of the workpiece.
  • German Auslegesschrift No. 1,004,895 discloses a machine in which individually controllable valves are provided in the connecting lines between the pressure cylinders and the working cylinders of the forging saddles.
  • this machine is not a forging machine in the sense of the present application but a machine for free forging of vessels, thick-walled pipes or similar heavy hollow bodies.
  • this machine requires a second drive mechanism for mechanical synchronization serving for accurately adjusting the postion of the forging saddles at start-up and compensating for possible leakage losses.
  • a compensating apparatus having a plurality of plungers displaceable in cylinders and connected by connecting lines to the first drive mechanism and to the working cylinders.
  • these connecting lines are disposed non-return valves and, in a pipe leading to the fluid reservoir, a corresponding number of inlet valves.
  • predetermined valves are opened in dependence upon the position of the drive mechanism.
  • Such a drive construction makes it an easy matter to readjust the valves according to the operational requirements of the moment so that these are opened in the predetermined selective manner when the drive mechanism reaches the predetermined position and establish a direct connection with the fluid reservoir in these connecting pipes whereby the working cylinder connected to the respective fluid reservoir remains unpressurized in spite of the fact that the drive mechanism continues to rotate and thus the pistons displaceable in the pressure cylinder continue to carry out a pumping action.
  • the selected valves reach their open position when the drive mechanism is in a dead center position, preferably in the rearward dead center position.
  • the working pistons and the pistons of the pressure cylinders are also in their rearward positions. In this way it is avoided that the working pistons become unsynchronized and are accelerated too forcibly on to the working cylinder by virtue of the retracting force acting on their retracting surfaces.
  • a suitable position dependent opening signal for the rotary apparatus may be furnished by limit switches arranged in the dead center positions of the drive mechanism and connected, e.g., electrically, with the valves.
  • each pressure cylinder consists of stepped cylinder portions and has a correspondingly stepped piston and a by-pass pipe having the switching valve leads into the cylinder sec- ,tion, a simple switching of the switching valve will result in delivery of the volume of fluid throttled by the cylinder section receiving the by-pass pipe to the pressure reservoir so that this amount of pressure medium cannot become effective in the working cylinders.
  • a forging machine according to the invention can be brought into operation with predetermined forging saddles, an easily variable stroke of the working pistons and a rapidly adjustable number of strokes per unit time, so that for all the requirements occuring in forging of longitudinally extended workpieces in each case the best possible adaptation of the forging machine to the working conditions can be effected.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawing and has four forging saddles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of which adjacent saddles are disposed at 90 to each other and which are arranged about a workpiece 5 to be formed.
  • the forging saddles 1, 2, 3 and 4 are directly connected to working pistons 11, 12, 13 and 14 displaceably accommodated in hydraulic working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9.
  • the working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9 are double-acting so that they each have a retraction side and a pressure side 16.
  • the working pistons 11, 12, 13 and 14 can be returned into their respective starting positions after each forging stroke.
  • the retraction sides 15 of the working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9 are connected by supply lines 17 to a pressure reservoir 18 by which a constant pressure is maintained on the retraction sides in the hydraulic circuit.
  • cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 In order to pressurize the pressure sides 16 of the working pistons 11, 12, 13 and 14 these are connected by connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23 with respective pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27.
  • the cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 have cylinder sections of different diameters 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, in which corresponding stepped pistons are guided with a front piston portion 37, 38, 39 or 41 adapted to the smaller diameter cylinder portion 28, 31, 33 or 35 and also a rear wider diameter piston portion 42, 43, 44 or 45.
  • Engaging the piston rods of the displaceably mounted pistons 37 45 is a yoke 46 which is connected via a connecting rod 47 to a drive mechanism. In the illustrated forging machine this comprises a single throw crank drive 48 which is driven via a gear 49 by a motor 51.
  • limit switches 52, 53 At the level of the front and rear dead center positions of the crank drive 48 and at the side of the yoke 46 are limit switches 52, 53. Since the valves may only be closed or opened at the rear reversal point the limit switch 53 should be sufficient. Since, however, it is a requirement that the valve must open from the rear reversal point and must be closed at the rear reversal point, two opposed signals are required shortly before the rear reversal point. This function is assumed by the limit switch 52. Because of the high switching frequency and the accurate determination of the reversal point, the limit switchs 52, 53 are preferably contactless limit switches each of which transmits a signal when the drive mechanism is positioned at the front and at the rear reversal point.
  • valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 In order to control the opening and closing of the valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 these signals (shown in dotted line) are amplified and arrive directly at the solenoids 58, 59, 61 and 62 of the valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 which lie in the control pipes 63, 64, 65 or 66 branching in the form of discharge pipes from the connecting pipes 19, 21, 22 and 23 in the vicinity of the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 and connected via the valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 and a respective discharge line 67, 68, 69 or 71 with a fluid reservoir 72.
  • a by-pass line 73, 74, 75 or 76 is connected to the rearward, larger diameter cylinder portions 29, 32, 34 and 36 and accommodates a reversing or switching valve 77, 78, 79 or 81. As illustrated in the drawing, these switching valves can be so adjusted that a connection is established between each by-pass line and the connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23; howeverfthey can also be so adjusted that the by-pass lines 73, 74, 75 and 76 are connected with a common supply line 82 of a pressure reservoir 83.
  • the yoke 46 and thereby the pistons in the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 are moved uniformly towards the left by the crank drive 48 and the connecting rod 47. Since the valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 are normally closed, the fluid exhausted from the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 is passed via connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23 into the associated working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9.
  • the pressurized working pistons 11, 12, 13 and 14 move the forging saddles 1, 2, 3 and 4 inwards so that the workpiece 5 which is pushed through the machine by manipulators (not shown) in stepwise fashion perpendicular to the plane of the drawing is reduced in cross section on all sides.
  • the crank drive 48 starts its retracting stroke so that the pistons in the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 are also retracted towards the right. In this way the fluid pressure in the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 and in the connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23 is reduced so that the working pistons 1 1, 12, 13 and 14 are returned by the pressure of the pressure reservoir 18.
  • the uniform loading of all working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9 only takes place if the valves 54, 55, 56, 57 in the control lines 63, 64, 65 and 66 are closed.
  • valves 54, 55, 56 and 57 are open then in spite of continued operation of the crank drive and consequential pumping action in the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 no pressure can build up in the connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23 and thus no drive of the working pistons 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the working cylinders 6, 7, 8 and 9 can be achieved since the pressure sides 16 of the working cylinders are in direct communication with the liquid reservoir 72 via the connecting lines 19, 21, 22 and 23 and the open valves 54, 55, 56 and'57. In this case the pressure medium being transported oscillates between the pressure cylinders 24, 25, 26 and 27 and the liquid reservoir 72.
  • valve control with the assistance of the limit switches 52, 53 to periodically open and close the valves 54 and 57 or 56 in such a way that the forging saddles 1,3 and 2,4 are alternately subject to pressure.
  • One way in which this may be accomplished is that the valves 54 and 57 are closed on the first travel of the yoke 46 through the dead centre point so that only the working pistons 11 and 13 of the working cylinders 6 and 8 execute a working stroke and the two other opposed working pistons remain stationary.
  • the number of revolutions of the crank drive 48 can be varied by an increase in the number of revolutions of the motor or switching of the gear 49 so that the forging machine can be operated with a high number of strokes with a reduced working stroke as is necessary, for example, for finishing operations.
  • valves or pairs of valves which are to be open for inactivating working cylinders 6 9 in dependence upon the working cycle of the drive mechanism 48 can be pre-programmed in a control device 85 into which pass the signals of the limit switches 53, 52 and the output of which is the control signals to the solenoids 58, 59 61, 62 of the valves.
  • a forging machine comprising a plurality of double-acting piston and cylinder ram units arranged for multidirectional lateral forging of an elongate workpiece disposed therebetween, a plurality of fluid pressure transmitting piston and cylinder unit being connected by a connection line to a corresponding double acting piston and cylinder ram unit, a drive mechanism mechanically connected to the pistons of said fluid pressure transmittingpiston and cylinder units for reciprocation of said pistons in unison, the improvement consisting in that a. each piston of the fluid pressure transmitting piston and cylinder units is a two-stage piston cooperating with two pressure chambers,
  • each connection line is directly connected to one of the two pressure chambers and by a branch line to the other pressure chamber of the associated two-stage piston whereby a pressure chamber pair is arranged in parallel to the associated ram unit, and
  • a switching valve is disposed in each branch line to inactivate said other pressure chamber of each pair of pressure chambers by connecting said branch line to a pressure reservoir.

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