The present invention relates to a chip collection box for a machine tool and, more specifically, a chip collection box for a machine tool, which includes a collection box body having open top and bottom portions, and base plates installed on opposite sides at the bottom of the collection box body to be opened and closed in a hinged manner, wherein, when an opening cord is pulled while lifting the chip collection box upwardly, both of the base plates are released from a locking state and opened downward so that chips for a machine tool contained in the chip collection box are discharged downward, and, when a closing cord is pulled after the chips are discharged, the opposite base plates are closed by the closing cord and then locked on a locking means.
As one of prior inventions, the invention in the Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0990883 (entitled “a loading box for chip collection) has been disclosed from the published gazette thereof. Although this invention has a common point with the present invention in that both inventions are used as a collection box to collect chips for machine tools, both are absolutely different from each other in terms of structures and operational mechanisms thereof. Therefore, the above conventional invention is not suitable for comparison with the present invention.
According to the above conventional invention, a main body of the loading box is inserted and mounted on a hook of a forklift, and is rotated by a loading mechanism so that the main body becomes inclined to allow the collected chips to be discharged to the outside through an opening and closing cover. Therefore, there is a problem that this invention cannot be used at all in a field without the forklift.
The present invention is to solve the above problem, specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a chip collection box for a machine tool, including: a collection box body that has open top and bottom portions; and base plates installed on opposite sides at the bottom of the collection box body to be opened and closed in a hinged manner, wherein, when an opening cord is pulled while lifting the chip collection box upwardly, both of the base plates are released from a locking state and opened downward so that chips for a machine tool contained in the chip collection box are discharged downward, and, when a closing cord is pulled after the chips are discharged, the opposite base plates are closed by the same and then locked on a locking means.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a chip collection box for a machine tool, characterized with specific configurations in that: a collection box body having open top and bottom portions is provided with a suspending member on the upper portion, and base plates with wheels mounted on the bottom thereof are installed on opposite sides at the bottom of the collection box body in order to open and close the open bottom portion of the collection box body in a hinged manner by means of a hinge member;
opposite outer ends of the opposite base plates may be installed in a hinged manner on opposite sides at the bottom portion of the collection box body by the hinge, and a handle may be installed on a front upper side of the collection box body to protrude forward, wherein the handle is provided to hold and push the chip collection box by hands;
a locking protrusion may be installed on a lower portion in the center of each of front and rear plates of the collection box body, an oil tray may be installed throughout the entire length of a free end of one base plate to support a free end of the other base plate while preventing oil from falling, and a locking device rotatably engaged with the front and rear locking protrusions may be installed on front and rear sides of the oil tray; and
an unlocking device may be installed on the front and rear plates of the collection box body above the locking protrusion, in order to release the locking state of the locking device locked on the locking protrusion, a closing cord guide may be installed on the bottom of the front and rear sides of each of the opposite base plates, and a closing cord pulling device may be installed on the front plate of the collection box body above the unlocking device, wherein two of the closing cords wound on a winch member of the closing cord pulling device are guided to both closing cord guides, respectively, while the ends of the closing cords are fixed to the rear plate of the collection box body, respectively.
As described above, the chip collection box for a machine tool of the present invention may simply and effectively discharge chips typically discharged from a factory, since the base plates mounted on opposite sides at the bottom of the collection box body can be opened and closed in a hinged manner by pulling the opening cord and the closing cord using a ceiling crane that normally exists in any of even small factories having machine tools from which chips are discharged.
Hereinafter, a chip collection box for a machine tool according to the present invention will be described with reference to
A chip collection box 1 according to the present invention, as shown in
Further, opposite outer ends of opposite base plates 5 may be disposed to be hinged with opposite sides at the bottom of the collection box body 2 by the hinge 6, while a handle 7 may be provided on a front upper portion of the collection box body 2 to protrude forward, so as to hold and push the chip collection box 1 by hands.
Further, a locking protrusion 9 and a latch presser 19 may be installed vertically on lower portions in the center of front and rear plates of the collection box body 2, respectively. Further, an oil tray 8 may be installed throughout the entire length of a free end of one base plate 5 to support a free end of the other base plate 5 while preventing oil from falling, and a locking device 10 rotatably engaged with the front and rear locking protrusions 9 may be installed in front and rear directions of the oil tray 8.
On the front and rear plates of the collection box body 2 above the locking protrusion 9, an unlocking device 20 to release a locking state of the locking device 10 locked in the locking protrusion 9 may be installed, while opposite base plates 5 may be provided with closing cord guides 42, respectively, on the bottom of the front and rear sides thereof. Further, a closing cord pulling device 40 may be installed on the front plate of the collection box body 2 above the unlocking device 20, wherein two closing cords 41 wound around a winch member of the closing cord pulling device 40, respectively, are guided to both closing cord guides 42 while the ends of the closing cords 41 are fixedly coupled to the rear plate of the collection box body 2, respectively.
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Further, on front and rear ends of the rotary shaft 17 penetrating the front and rear sides toward the outside of the lower blocks 13, a locking part 14 locked on the inside and outside of the locking protrusion 9 to be hooked on the top thereof may be coupled with a lower part of a locking body 16, which has an outer protrusion 15 to be pushed by a lower lever 23 of the unlocking device 20, by means of bolts. Further, between one upper side of the locking body 16 and a predetermined position outside the lower block 13, a spring 16a may be provided to return the locking body 16 rotating about the rotary shaft 17 to its original position.
Further, a latch plate 18 in which several teeth 18a selectively engaged with the tooth portion 11 of the latch 12 are formed downward may be installed on an inner surface of the locking body 16, while a latch presser 19 may be provided in the collection box body 2 below the locking protrusion wherein the latch presser 19 presses the top surface of the latch 12 so as to release engagement between the teeth 18a of the latch plate 18 and the tooth portion 11 of the latch 12.
With regard to the unlocking device 20, as shown in
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Further, an idle lever 50 having a through-hole 49 formed thereon in a desired size, into which the male clutch part 46 can be fitted, may be provided on the outer periphery of the clutch shaft 45 in front of the male clutch part 46 so as to possibly run idling, wherein a second ratchet ring 48 detachably engaged with the first ratchet ring 47 is provided on an inner surface of the idle lever 50 outside the through-hole 49, and the other end of the connection rod 25 connected to the horizontal lever 22 of the rotary lever 21 is connected to an outer end of the idle lever 50 in a hinged manner.
Further, on the clutch shaft 45 outside the idle lever, a clutch pipe 52 may be movably installed in a longitudinal direction along the clutch shaft 45, wherein a female clutch part 51 detachably engaged with the male clutch part 45 via the through-hole 49 is formed on a front end of the clutch pipe 52. Further, a boss part of a rotational handle 53 may be fixed on the outside of the clutch pipe 52, a spring 54 may be provided on the clutch shaft 45 in front of the clutch pipe 52 to push the clutch pipe 42 toward the male clutch part 46, and a spring support 55 may be provided at a rear end of the clutch shaft 45.
Further, the ends of two closing cords 41 may be wound on the pulley 44 inside the pulley housing 43 in a fixed state, lateral rollers 56 may be installed on opposite sides of the pulley housing 43, respectively, in front of the collection boxy body 2, opposite closing cords 41 coming from the pulley 44 to opposite sides may be guided by the lateral rollers 56 to move downward, and then, guided to the front and rear opening cord pulling members 32 mounted on the base plate 5. Thereafter, the rear ends of the two closing cords 41 may be fixed on the rear plate of the collection box body 2.
Among reference numerals in the drawings, reference numeral “47a” denotes a bushing provided between the first ratchet ring 47 and the male clutch part 46.
An operational mechanism of the present invention configured as above will be described in detail with reference to
With regard to the chip collection box 1 according to the present invention, as shown in
Further, wheels 4 may be installed on the bottom of the chip collection box 1 while a handle 7 may be provided on a front plate of the collection box body 2 to push or pull the chip collection box 1 of the present invention, thereby moving the same like a wagon.
Further, as shown in
As such, in the case where chips are present in the chip collection box 1 and the chips are to be poured out into a separate storage container or a loading box of a vehicle, a suspending member 3 mounted on an upper portion of the collection box body 2 may be hooked and lifted upward using any desired tool such as a ring of a ceiling crane installed in a factory or a fork of a forklift, followed by moving the box to a predetermined position in order to pour out the chips.
Then, by pulling the second opening cord 37 mounted on the chip collection box 1 floating in the air, the locking device 10 may be released (or unlocked) from a locking state on the locking protrusion 9 in the front and rear plates of the collection box body 2 while rotating by a predetermined angle, so as to open the base plates 5 downward. On the other hand, in the initial state before rotation of the locking device 10, the locking device 10 may be positioned in the vertical direction, as shown in
As such, when the locking device is positioned in the vertical direction, a lower portion of the latch presser 19 below the locking protrusion 9 may be in a state of pressing a top surface of the latch 12, which is elastically disposed inside the locking device 10, downward so that a tooth portion 11 of the latch 12 and a tooth portion 18a formed downward on the lower side of the latch plate 18 are not engaged with each other but spaced apart from each other. Therefore, when pushing the locking body 16 of the locking device 10 in a lateral direction, the locking body 16 may be in a state in which it can rotate by a predetermined angle around the rotary shaft 17, as shown in
In such state, when pulling the second opening cord 37, as shown in
As the rotational boy 33 rotates like as “b”, the first opening cord 36 with a tip end positioned on the eccentric protrusion 34 may be pulled upward as shown in “d”. Further, as shown in
When the rotary lever 21 rotates like as “e”, the lower lever 23 protruding downward from the center of the rotary lever 21 may also rotate like as “e” and push the outer protrusion 15 above the locking device 10 installed on the lower portion of the rotary lever 21 in a rotational direction of the rotary lever 21.
At this time, the locking body 16 of the locking device 10 may rotate by a predetermined angle as shown in “f” of
When the locking part 14 is out of the locking protrusion 9, one base plate 5, on which the locking device 10 and the oil tray 8 are provided, and the other base plate 5 opposed thereto may be completely opened downward due to the weight of the chips contained in the collection box body 2 as well as their own weight, as shown in
At this time, the locking device 10 is installed at the front and rear sides of the one base plate 5 and, as shown in
Further, when the locking body 16 of the locking device 10 is released from the locking protrusion 9 and the base plates 5 are opened, the top surface of the latch 12 may escape the bottom of the latch presser 19 as shown in
Further, when pulling the second opening cord 37 and opening the opposite base plates 5 downward, both of the closing cords 41 may be pulled downward, as shown in “g” of
As such, when the opposite base plates 5 are opened downward by pulling the second opening cord 37, the rotary lever 21 may rotate as shown in “e” of
In this regard, as shown in
In addition, after the opposite base plates 5 at the bottom of the collection box body 2 are opened by pulling the second opening cord 37 and the chips contained in the chip collection box 1 are poured downward, when loosing or relaxing the pulled second opening cord 37, the horizontal lever 22 at a side where the spring is provided may be lifted upward due to elasticity of the spring 24 provided to pull upward the other horizontal lever 22 both to the horizontal lever connected to the first opening cord 36 as shown in
In this way, after the opposite base plates 5 are opened downward and the chips contained in the chip collection box 1 are discharged downward, the base plates 5 opened downward should be closed in order to reuse the chip collection box 1. For this purpose, the chip collection box 1 suspended from the crane is moved to a position where the rotational handle 53 of the closing cord pulling device 40 can be gripped and turned by a hand of a user, wherein the lower side of the base plate 5 opened downward must be suspended in the air as high as it does not touch the ground.
As such, after moving the chip collection box 1 to a desired position, as shown in
As described above, when turning the rotational handle 53 of the closing cord pulling device 40, as shown in
However, as shown in
Since the clutch shaft 45 rotating as described above is installed in the center of the pulley 44, the pulley 44 may rotate together and two closing cords 41 may be wound around the pulley 44. Then, these two closing cords 41 may pass through the closing cord guide 42 mounted on the base plate 5 and tip ends thereof may be fixed to the rear plate of the collection box body 2, so that the opposite base plates are lifted upward in a hinged manner and the top surfaces of the base plates 5 may come into contact with the bottom surface of the collection box body 2.
As described above, when opposite base plates 5 are lifted upward by winding opposite closing cords 41 around the pulley 44, the locking device 10 installed in one base plate 5 may be inclined and move up in a hinged manner as shown in
In this case, as shown in
The present invention relates to a chip collection box for gathering diverse chips generated in machine tools, and thus is industrially applicable.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2019-0094724 | Aug 2019 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/KR2020/009189 | 7/13/2020 | WO |