Tying machines are used for example within building industry for binding together elongated objects with a binding wire, especially for binding together reinforcing bars. This invention relates to a knot plate for a tying machine and to a tying machine comprising said knot plate.
Traditionally, tying of for example reinforcing bars for molding of concrete elements has been done by simple, manually operated tools which is very time consuming and thereby expensive. Manually operated tying tools may also cause users repetitive strain injuries when using such a manually operated tool. Therefore, tying machines has been developed making a tying process considerably more efficient and that considerably decrease the risk for repetitive strain injuries.
Usually, a tying machine comprises two claws with guiding surfaces for a tying binding wire, which claws are placed at for example reinforcing bars to be bound together by the binding wire being fed along a guiding surface of one of the claws and over to a guiding surface of the other claw to get around the reinforcing bars. A tying machine usually comprises a knot plate rotatable arranged at the machine, which knot plate comprises an aperture in the middle of the knot plate and slots for receiving the tying binding wire. After the binding wire has been wrapped around the bars the binding wire is tightened with a predetermined force and with a mechanism inside the machine so the binding wire is guided into the slots of the knot plate. When the knot plate starts to rotate the binding wire extends from the slots above the knot plate so that a knot is formed in the middle of the knot plate during rotation of the knot plate.
Document WO2007042785 shows an example of a tying machine as described above, the tying machine comprises a knot plate with an opening arranged in the middle of the knot plate and two slots for receiving of a binding wire. A disadvantage with the knot plate in the document is that the binding wire is exposed to significant tension- and friction forces that may cause breaking of the binding wire during rotation of the knot plate. In the light of the above there is a need of an improved knot plate for a tying machine.
An object of the invention is to provide an improved knot plate for a tying machine.
According to an aspect of the invention the object is achieved by a knot plate for a tying machine, wherein the knot plate is designed as a substantially circular disc and wherein the knot plate comprises an aperture arranged substantially in a middle of the knot plate, and two through slots for receiving a binding wire arranged in the knot plate substantially on opposite sides of each other in relation to the aperture, wherein the knot plate comprises two grooves for receiving the binding wire, wherein each of the two grooves, connects one respective through slot of the two through slots with the aperture.
Because the knot plate comprises two grooves for receiving the binding wire where each of the two grooves connects one respective through slot of the two through slots with the aperture, the binding wire will be guided within the grooves towards the aperture during a tying process with the knot plate. Thereby an improved control of a movement of the binding wire during the tying process is achieved. Because the binding wire is guided within the grooves during the tying process, instead of extending above the knot plate as in the case of the previous known and described knot plate, both tension forces inside the binding wire and friction forces on the binding wire are reduced. Thereby, also risk for breaking the binding wire during the tying process is reduced. Further, the knot that will be created will get a lower height, than in the case with the previous known and described knot plate, because the binding wire is guided within the groves towards the aperture instead of extending above the knot plate towards the aperture.
Consequently, an improved knot plate is provided and thereby the above mentioned object is achieved.
According to some embodiments, each of the two grooves has a depth that corresponds to more than a half of a diameter of cross section of the binding wire.
Thereby it is ensured that the binding wire doesn't jump out from the two grooves when the binding wire is guided within the grooves towards the aperture during a tying process because upper edges of the two grooves will extend over more than a half of a diameter of cross section of the binding wire when the binding wire is guided within the grooves, which further improves the control of the movement of the binding wire during the tying process.
According to some embodiments, the two grooves comprise a first groove and a second groove, where the first groove is arranged along a first line and where the second groove is arranged along a second line, wherein the first line and the second line are displaced parallely in each direction in relation to a line through a middle of the two through slots and the middle of the knot plate.
Because the first groove is arranged along the first line and the second groove is arranged along the second line, the first grove ends in the aperture along the first line and the second grove ends in the aperture along the second line. Because the first line and the second line are displaced parallely in each direction in relation to a line through the middle of the two through slots and the middle of the knot plate, the two grooves end in the aperture along lines that are displaced in each direction in relation to the line through the middle of the two through slots and the middle of the knot plate. Consequently, the binding wire is guided during a tying process along the first groove and the second groove into said aperture so that the binding wire reaches the aperture in the end of the first groove and the second groove respectively at a distance on each side of the line through the middle of the two through slots and the middle of the knot plate. Thereby, the angle with which the binding wire is bended during the tying process is reduced, which results in that forces in the binding wire and friction forces on the binding wire will decrease during the tying process. Thus, an improved knot plate is obtained with further improved control of the movement of the binding wire towards the aperture of the knot plate during the tying process.
According to some embodiments, the aperture comprises a substantially circular form, wherein each of the two grooves ends in the aperture in a direction that coincides with substantially tangential directions of the aperture.
Because each of the two grooves ends in the aperture in a direction that coincides with substantially tangential directions of the aperture the binding wire will be guided from each groove towards the aperture in a respective direction that coincides with a respective tangential direction of the aperture. Thereby, the angle with which the binding wire is bended during the tying process is further reduced, which further will decrease forces in the binding wire and friction forces on the binding wire during the tying process. Thus, further improved knot plate is obtained with further improved control of the movement of the binding wire towards the aperture of the knot plate during the tying process. Thereby, a knot plate is obtained with which knot plate a tying may be performed in a simple and efficient manner.
According to some embodiments, the knot plate comprises a first side and a second side wherein the knot plate is arranged to be mounted in the tying machine so that the second side faces towards the tying machine and so that the first side faces from the tying machine, wherein the aperture and the two grooves are arranged in the first side of the knot plate.
According to some embodiments, the knot plate comprises an intended rotational direction, wherein each of the two through slots comprises a first surface that faces in the intended rotational direction and a second surface that faces against the intended rotational direction wherein the knot plate comprises edges between the first surface of each of the two through slots and the first side of the knot plate, wherein the edges comprise bevelled profiles.
Because the edges between the first surface that faces in the intended rotational direction of each of the two through slots and the first side of the knot plate comprises bevelled profiles, lower frictions between the binding wire and the edges occur during the tying process. Thereby, risk that the binding wire may break during the tying process is further reduced.
According to some embodiments the knot plate comprises groove edges in the transitions between each of the two grooves and one respective through slot of the two through slots, wherein the groove edges comprise bevelled groove edge profiles.
Thereby, in the transitions between each of the two grooves and one respective through slot of the two through slots lower friction will occur, which further reduce the risk for breaking the binding wire during the tying process. Further, an improved the control of the movement of the binding wire during the tying process is obtained. Thereby, a knot plate is obtained with which knot plate a tying may be performed in a simple and efficient manner.
According to further aspect, the object is achieved by a tying machine comprising a knot plate as described herein.
The various aspects of the subject matter, including their particular features and advantages, will be readily understood from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings, in which:
The embodiments herein will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which example embodiments are shown. Disclosed features of example embodiments may be combined. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.
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The two through slots 7, 9 have a width b that corresponds to more than a diameter of cross section of the binding wire. The diameter of cross section of a conventional binding wire is approximately one and a half millimetre (1.5 mm). The diameter of cross section of the binding wire may also be from approximately 0.5 mm to approximately 5 mm. Further, the two through slots 7, 9 have an extension u which in the example shown in
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The two grooves 13, 15 each comprise a depth d that corresponds to more than a half of a diameter of cross section of the binding wire. Thereby, the upper edges of the two grooves 13, 15 will extend over more than a half of the diameter of cross section of the binding wire which will ensure that the binding wire will not jump out from the two grooves 13, 15 when the binding wire is guided within the grooves towards the aperture 5 during a tying process. Further, because the two grooves 13, 15 each comprise a depth d that corresponds to more than a half of a diameter of cross section of the binding wire it is also ensured that the knot will get a lower height.
The knot plate 1 has a thickness d1, which thickness d1 may be in a range from approximately 2 mm to approximately 30 mm. According to embodiments illustrated in
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The two grooves 13, 15 have a width b1 that substantially corresponds to the width b of the two through slots 7, 9 and that is greater than a diameter of cross section of the binding wire. Further, the two grooves 13, 15 have an extension u1 that, in the example shown in
The knot plate 1 has an intended rotational direction a, which in the embodiments illustrated in
The first line I1 and the second line I2, along which the first groove 13 respective the second groove 15 are arranged, are each displaced parallely from the line Im through the middle of the two through slots 7, 9 and the middle of the knot plate 1 with a distance that corresponds substantially to the width b1 of the two grooves 13, 15. Thereby, an improved knot plate 1 is obtained with further improved control of the movement of the binding wire towards the aperture 5 of the knot plate 1 during a tying process.
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According to some embodiments, the two grooves 13, 15 are arranged substantially along the line Im through the middle of the two through slots 7, 9 and the middle of the knot plate 1. Thereby, manufacturing of the knot plate may be simplified because, the two grooves 13, 15 may be arranged substantially along the line Im through the middle of the two through slots 7, 9 of the knot plate 1.
The two grooves 13, 15 may have a curvature, for example in a form of a semicircle.
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The knot that is created with the knot plate may also be called a winding, i.e. a winding for connecting of two ends of a binding wire.
According to further embodiments of the knot plate 1, the second side 19 is arranged in a similar way or identically as the first side 17 of the knot plate 1 according to
The second side 19 of the knot plate may comprise one or several of the above mentioned features from the first side 17 of the knot plate 1. According to the embodiment of the knot plate 1 as illustrated in
The second aperture may be arranged as a through hole in the knot plate 1. According to other embodiments the second aperture may be arranged as a recess in the knot plate with a depth that is less than a thickness of the knot plate 1 and that is equal or greater than the depth of the two grooves. In embodiments when the second aperture is arranged as a through hole, the second aperture is the same as the aperture 5 shown in
Because the two through slots 7, 9 are through, they work in the same way no matter if the first side 17 of the knot plate 1 or the second side 19 of the knot plate is used.
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