This application claims the priority benefit of China application serial no. 201910947017.0, filed on Oct. 7, 2019. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The invention relates to the technical field of metal surface treatment, in particular to a steel-plate descaling device.
It usually takes a while for steel plates to be put into actual use after production. During this period of time, the surfaces of the steel plates may rust for various reasons, affecting the actual use. Therefore, before being used, the rusted surfaces of the steel plates need to be subjected to a descaling treatment.
Currently, it is common to remove oxide scales from the surfaces of the steel plates (i.e., descaling) by performing a pickling process. The principle of the prickling process is to use acid in a pickling solution to chemically react with metal oxide and thereby dissolve the metal oxide and remove the rust and dirt on the surface of a steel material. However, the steel plates need to be washed wish a certain amount of clean water and further require a passivation process after the descaling process using the pickling solution. The significant amount of waste water, waste acid, and acid mist produced thus contaminate the environment. If the processes are not carried out properly, the metal may be over-corroded to form pitting marks on the surface. Considering the increasing severity of smog and water and soil pollution across the country, as well as the increasing public awareness for environmental protection, the government is more and more determined to fight against pollution. For companies that still use pickling for removal of oxide scales, such measures are causing increasing pressure and forcing them to take environmental protection seriously. Thus, it is imminent to opt for a novel, environmental friendly descaling device. Of course, it is possible to physically remove oxide scales. A descaling mechanical device using a disk brush or an abrasive belt is commonly adopted in the conventional steel-plate descaling device. However, on one hand, such descaling device have poor descaling quality and low, incomprehensive descaling efficiency in practice; on the other hand, when the disc brush or the abrasive belt are worn off and are in need of replacement, to replace them manually is both time-consuming and laborious.
To solve the above technical issue, the objective of the invention is to provide a low-pollution steel-plate descaling device capable of efficiently removing oxide scales from steel plates without a blind spot and replacing the descaling rollers automatically at a high degree.
For the above objective, the invention adopts the following technical solution.
A steel-plate descaling device is provided. The steel-plate descaling device includes one or more steel-plate surface descalers and one or more steel-plate side-surface descalers which are disposed along the device moving direction as well as a trolley rail disposed in parallel to one side of the device. At least one roller-changing vehicle is disposed on the trolley rail to be slid back and forth. The roller-changing vehicle is provided with a roller-changing mechanism. When the roller-changing mechanism travels to a front side of the steel-plate surface descaler, the roller-changing mechanism extends into the inner part of the steel-plate surface descaler to change the roller.
The oxide scale of the steel-plate surface is removed physically, having low pollution and high descaling efficiency without a blind spot, and simultaneously having a high degree of automation in replacing the descaling roller through the roller-changing vehicle, saving both time and effort.
Compared with the conventional art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. By removing physically the oxide scale from the steel-plate surface, it has low pollution and high descaling efficiency without a blind spot, and simultaneously having a high degree of automation in replacing the descaling roller through a roller-changing vehicle from a steel-plate surface descaler, saving both time and effort.
2. By providing a roller-clamping mechanism on the steel-plate surface descaler, the stability of the steel plate is ensured during the surface descaling process of the steel plate, such that the descaling process maintains stable. By disposing one of the duo-rollers to be liftable and fixed, the roller-clamping mechanism may adapt to steel plates of different thicknesses.
3. The structure configuration of the U-shaped holes on the side plates and the roller-changing rails located on both sides of the U-shaped holes enables the roller-changing mechanism to extend into the steel-plate surface descaler to change the descaling roller.
4. The lifting motor drives the angle adjuster and rotates the connecting shaft, driving the lifting mechanism to operate, and the lifting mechanism at last drives the chief operating bean to move in the vertical direction, realizing the lifting of the descaling roller. By providing the first linear slide rail and the first linear slider, the upper beam disposed on the first linear slider may move back and forth on the first linear slide rail. And the effective length (referring to the part effective of descaling) of the descaling roller is longer than the width of the steel plate. The configuration of the descaling roller moving back and forth along with the upper beam increases the utilization efficiency and prolongs the service life of the descaling roller.
5. The upper beam and one of the bearing bases are provided to be movable, such that the bearing bases on the both ends of the descaling roller may disengage from or fit with the descaling roller, realizing the automatic removal and replacement of the descaling roller and improving the efficiency and saving manpower, thereby implementing the automation.
6. By engaging and sleeving the gear shaft with the inner gear, the two are fixed in the circumferential direction and movable in the axial direction. During the installation of the descaling roller, the both ends of the descaling roller are firstly inserted into the gear shafts, and the outer gears at both ends of the descaling roller abut against the front end surfaces of the inner gears. The rotation of the inner gears makes the teeth of the outer gears align with the gaps between the teeth of the inner gears. The translation motion of the inner gears is reversely pushed to generate elastic force so that the inner gears and the outer gears are sleeves together to realize the power connection between the two.
7. The roller-changing vehicle has two operating positions, that is, two movable roller-guiding seats and a roller-changing support device disposed on each roller-guiding seat. In specific applications, one is empty and the other is loaded with a new descaling roller. The overall movement of the roller-changing vehicle is convenient for the corresponding roller-guiding seat to align with the roller-changing entrance of the descaler, and the roller-guiding seat and the roller-changing support device may move respectively to form a secondary relay. The movement of the roller-guiding seat is convenient to approach the roller-changing entrance, while the roller-changing support device may move away from the roller-guiding seat and enter the descaler to send or receive the descaling rollers. The two roller-guiding seats operate alternately to complete the roller receiving and sending operations without manual intervention, thereby improving operation efficiency and use safety.
8. The side-brush descaling roller operates the descaling on the side surfaces of the steel plate. When the abrasive steel plate on the surface of the descaling roller is worn off to a certain degree, causing the descaling of the side surface of the steel plate to be ineffective, the guide-wheel driving mechanism drives the guide wheel to move outward. Under the operation of the roller-seat cylinder, the operating-roller seat moves inward until the abrasive steel plate on the surface of the descaling roller again comes into close contact with the side surface of the steel plate. The outward movement of the guide wheel and the inward movement of the operating-roller seat are synchronized, and the guide wheel is kept at all times in the state of clamping both sides of the steel plate. And such automatic adjustment enables the descaling roller to perform the descaling effectively at all times.
A descaling-roller changing vehicle of the present embodiment is an important part of a descaling device. The descaling device may be a steel-plate descaling device or a steel-wire descaling device. Whatever type of the device, a descaling roller is provided to brush off rust or oxide scale. A steel-plate descaling device is taken as an example to introduce the invention in detail.
In the present embodiment, a steel plate is provided as the reference. The moving direction of the steel plate with regard to the device is defined to be forward, and its opposite direction is the backward. The left and right sides of the moving direction of the steel plate are defined to be the left and the right, whereas the vertical direction is defined to be up and down. It is upon this basis that the orientations such as top, upper part, upper end, bottom, lower part, lower end, left side, and right side are defined. In the present embodiment, the roller adapted for descaling the surface of the steel plate is termed a “descaling roller”. For example, the descaling roller of the present embodiment may adopt the descaling roller disclosed in the P.R.C. Patent Application No. CN201720567999.7.
Brush strips composed of a resin matrix are densely disposed on the descaling roller. And rigid abrasive particles, for example selecting from any one of diamond, silica, alumina, brown corundum, or microcrystalline fused alumina, are disposed in the strip structure of the resin matrix. By rotating the descaling roller, the brush strips brush and wear the steel plate. As the brush strips are consumed, the abrasive particles contact the surface of the steel plate to polish and remove the oxide scale.
The steel-plate descaling device shown in
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The roller-clamping mechanism 12 is arranged on one side of the base 111, and the entirety of the roller-clamping mechanism 12 is perpendicular to the direction of the steel plate traveling on a flow line. The roller-clamping mechanism 12 includes two vertical beams 121 arranged in parallel to and between the two side plates 112, and a pair of duo-rollers 122 arranged horizontally is provided on the vertical beams 121. The steel plate is sandwiched between the pair of duo-rollers. In order for the steel plate to be fixed in a vertical direction, and also to enable the pair of duo-rollers 122 to clamp steel plates of different thicknesses, the upper one of the pair of duo-rollers 122 is disposed to be movable in the vertical direction and to be fixed. The specific structure thereof is shown in
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The process of adjusting the chief operating beam 132 to go upward and downward is as follows. An output end of the lifting motor 135 drives the connecting shaft 137 to rotate through the angle adjuster, driving the lifting mechanism 138 to operate. And the lifting mechanism 138 is a worm gear mechanism. That is to say, the other end of the connecting shaft 137 is fixed to a worm gear that rotates synchronously, and the worm gear meshes with a worm vertically disposed. The worm is disposed within a worm protecting sleeve 1381. The lower end of the worm passes through the upper beam 131 and connects the chief operating beam 132. And the lifting mechanism finally drives the chief operating beam 132 to move in the vertical direction, thereby implementing the lifting of the descaling roller.
A first linear slide rail 15 is disposed in the front and rear sides of the upper bracket 113. A first linear slider 16 is disposed on the first linear slide rail 15, and the lower end of the upper beam 131 is fixed on the first linear slider 16. An upper-beam driving mechanism 17 is disposed on one side of the left and right sides of the upper bracket 113, and the upper-beam driving mechanism 17 is adapted to drive the upper beam 131 to move back and forth on the first linear slide rail 15. The upper-beam driving mechanism 17 is composed of an upper-beam decelerating motor 171 and an upper-beam driving screw 172. The upper-beam decelerating motor 171 drives the upper-beam driving screw 172 to thereby drive the upper beam 131 to move back and forth. Specifically, such configuration may be adopted so that the output end of the upper-beam decelerating motor 171 is connected with the upper-beam driving screw 172, and one end of the upper-beam driving screw 172 is restricted to a screw-rod seat 173, allowing the upper-beam driving screw 172 to rotate only along the screw-rod seat 173. And the other end of the upper-beam driving screw 172 is threadedly connected with a nut (not illustrated), and the nut is fixedly connected with the upper beam 131, such that the rotation of the upper-beam driving screw 172 drives the nut and the upper beam 131 to move synchronously.
Two groups of through holes 1311 are provided on the left and right sides of the upper beam 131. Each group of the through holes 1311 is composed of four through holes 1311 arranged in a rectangular shape. And each through hole 1311 is provided with a guide sleeve 1312. Two groups of guide rods 1321 are respectively provided at both ends of the chief operating beam 132. Each group of the guide rods 1321 includes four guide rods which are each located at the four vertices of a rectangle. And the four guide rods 1321 on the same side respectively pass the four guide sleeves 1312 located on the same side.
By providing the first linear slide rail and the first linear slider, the upper beam disposed on the first linear slider may move back and forth on the first linear slide rail. And the effective length (referring to the part effective of descaling) of the descaling roller is longer than the width of the steel plate. The configuration of the descaling roller moving back and forth along with the upper beam increases the utilization efficiency and prolongs the service life of the descaling roller.
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A drive cylinder 139 is installed on a bottom surface of the end of the chief operating beam 132 disposed with the shaft-seat slide rail 1322. And the drive cylinder 139 is articulated with a cylinder seat 1390 installed on the bottom surface of the chief operating beam 132. A hydraulic rod of the drive cylinder 139 is connected with the first bearing base 13300 on its same side, for driving the first bearing base 13300 to move back and forth on the shaft-seat slide rail 1322.
In the operating state, since the descaling roller 134 is rotating, in order to prevent the bearing base from moving on the shaft-seat slide rail 1322 due to the pressure loss in the drive cylinder 139, which causes the descaling roller 34 to disengage as shown in
A drive motor 1400 is provided next to the second bearing base 13301. Internal gears 1331 are provided for rotation respectively on the sides of the first bearing base 13300 and the second bearing base 13301 where they are opposite to each other. And spline couplings with teeth on the outer periphery are fixedly sleeved respectively on the shaft heads 1339 at both ends of the descaling roller 134. Here, the element in the image of the spline coupling may be termed an outer gear 1332. In the operating state, the outer gear 1332 sleeves and meshes with the inner gear 1331, and the drive motor 1400 drives the inner gear 1331 to rotate, which in turn drives the outer gear 1332 and the descaling roller 134 to rotate together to perform the descaling.
When the descaling roller 134 is worn out greatly and needs to be replaced with a new roller, it is easier to unload the roller with the following configuration. By disposing the shaft-seat slide rail 1322 and the shaft-seat slider 1323 on the chief operating beam 132, the first bearing base 13300 disposed on the shaft-seat slider 1323 is movable along the shaft-seat slide rail 1322. During the roller-changing operation, a roller-changing support device extends on the roller-changing rail and into a steel-plate surface descaler. The lifting motor drives the lifting mechanism to operate, lowering the chief operating beam 132, and the descaling roller falls on the roller-changing support device. At this time, the drive cylinder 139 pulls back, and the first bearing base 13300 moves toward the outer side on the shaft-seat slide rail 1322, such that one end of the descaling roller detaches the first bearing base 13300. Meanwhile, the upper-beam driving mechanism 17 drives the upper beam 131 to move along the first linear slide rail 15 so that the other end of the descaling roller detaches the second bearing base 13301. At this time, the roller-changing support device exits and brings out the worn descaling roller.
After that, the roller-changing support device extends and passes the new descaling roller into the steel-plate surface descaler. The lifting motor drives the lifting mechanism to operate such that the chief operating beam is lowered to a suitable position. The upper-beam driving mechanism drives the upper beam to move along the first linear slide rail, such that one shaft head of the descaling roller is disposed into the adjacent second bearing base. Meanwhile, the first bearing base moves toward the inner side on the shaft-seat slide rail, so that the other shaft head of the descaling roller is also fitted into the adjacent first bearing base. And the lifting motor drives the lifting mechanism to operate, so that the chief operating beam moves to the position preparing for further operation. Since the roller-loading operation mainly relies on the axial movement of the first bearing base 13300 and the upper beam 131, it is difficult for the teeth of the outer gear 133 to directly align with the tooth gap of the inner gear 1331. To address this issue, the embodiment provides the following configuration.
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The diameter of the outer gear 1332 is equal to the diameter of the gear shaft 1337. The outer gear 1332 is a comb gear, and teeth 13320 that are loosely arranged along the circumferential direction on the outer circumference of the outer gear 1332. In other words, the number of the teeth 13320 may be a half or a quarter of the sum of the long and short teeth of the inner gear 1331. It is preferable that the sum of the long teeth 13311 and the short teeth 13312 is equal to twice of the number of the teeth 13320 of the outer gear 1332. For example, the sum of the long and short teeth of the inner gear may be 44, whereas the number of the teeth 13320 of the outer gear is 22.
By engaging and sleeving the gear shaft with the inner gear, the inner gear and the gear shaft are fixed to each other in the circumferential direction, and whereas the inner gear 1331 is movable along the shaft direction. During the process of installing the descaling roller, the shaft heads 1339 at the both ends of the descaling roller firstly enter the chambers 1401 of the gear shafts 1337. Then, the descaling roller ascends through the acting of the lifting motor, and, as shown in
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Two roller-guiding seats 43 are installed side by side on the base 42. The roller-guiding seat 43 is connected with a roller-guiding-seat driving mechanism 434. The roller-guiding seat 43 moves on a longitudinal direction of the roller-guiding seat 43 through the acting of the roller-guiding-seat driving mechanism 434. The roller-guiding seat 43 includes a bottom plate 430 and fencing plates 431 extending upward along the left and right sides of the bottom plate 430. The bottom plate 430 and the two fencing plates 431 enclose to form a rail groove 432, and a roller-changing support device 41 is located in the rail groove 432 of the roller-guiding seat 43. On one of the roller-changing support device 41, a new descaling roller is placed, and the other roller-changing support device 41 is empty, ready for the dismantled descaling roller. The roller-guiding-seat driving mechanism 434 is an electric push rod, which of course may also be a hydraulic rod. One end of the electric push rod is disposed on and articulated with the bottom plate 42, and the other end of the electric push rod is articulated with the bottom plate 430 of the roller-guiding seat 43. The expansion and contraction of the electric push rod drive the roller-guiding seat 43 to move. The moving direction of the roller-changing vehicle 4 is perpendicular to the moving direction of the roller-guiding seat 43 and the roller-changing support device 41.
A traveling rail 433 is installed on the upper end of a fencing plate 431 in a longitudinal direction of the fencing plate 431, such that the roller-changing support device 41 may travel on the traveling rail 433 which is at the same height as that of the roller-changing rail 14 of the steel-plate surface descaler 1. When the roller-changing vehicle 4 moves on the vehicle rail 3 to the side of the steel-plate surface descaler 1, after the traveling rail 433 of the guide-roller seat 43 is aligned with the roller-changing rail 14, the guide-roller-seat drives mechanism drives the roller-guiding seat 43 to move, so that the traveling rail 433 is in contact and aligned with the roller-changing rail 14. The roller-changing support device 41 moves on the traveling rail 433 of the roller-guiding seat 43 within the roller-changing rail 14 and then continues to move forward to the bottom of the descaling roller, preparing to change the roller.
The roller-changing support device 41 includes a moving seat 411. A second transmission mechanism 414 is installed at one end of the moving seat 411. And the second transmission mechanism 414 is a sprocket drive mechanism. Specifically, it includes a second motor decelerator 415 and a main spindle 416. The second motor decelerator 415 is installed at the end of the moving seat 411. The main spindle 416 is disposed above the moving seat 411 through a main-spindle bearing base 418. The both ends of the main spindle 416 are installed with driving wheels 412, and the driving wheels 412 are provided and traveling on the traveling rail 433. On both sides of the other end of the moving seat 411, driven wheels 413 that travel on the traveling rail 433 are also installed. The second motor decelerator 415 drives the main shaft 416 to rotate through the second sprocket 417 and a chain (not illustrated), so that the driving wheels 412 and the driven wheels 413 travel along the traveling rail 433 and the roller-changing rail 14.
A support mechanism 4140 for supporting the descaling roller 134 is also installed on the moving seat 411. There are two support mechanisms 4140, each supporting one end of the descaling roller 134. The moving seat 411 includes side bars 4110 that are laterally symmetrical to each other and a horizontal bar 4111 arranged at intervals to connect the two side bars 4110. The moving seat 411 is provided with a descaling-roller supporting area 4112. The support mechanism 4140 is arranged between the two side bars 4110, and the support mechanism 4140 is located at the both ends of the descaling-roller supporting area 4112 in the longitudinal direction.
The support mechanism 4140 includes a guide shaft 4141, a support block 4142, a support wheel 4143, a limit block 4144, and an elastic mechanism. The guide shaft 4141 is provided in pairs and is disposed between the two side bars 4110, and the both ends of each guide shaft 4141 are inserted into the side bars 4110. The support block 4142 is also provided in pairs, and each support block 4142 is close to one side bar 4110. The support block 4142 is U-shaped, including a support block body 4147 and clamping blocks 4148 located at both ends of the support block body 4147. The support wheel 4143 is installed between the two clamping blocks 4148. The central axis of the support wheel 4143 is parallel to the support block body 4147. The clamping block 4148 has an upper surface 4149 and a front surface 4150 that faces the other support block 4142. In the vertical direction, the wheel surface 41430 of the support wheel 4143 extends upward and beyond the upper surface 4149 of the clamping block 4148, whereas in the horizontal direction, the wheel surface 41430 of the support wheel 4143 extends beyond the front surface 4150 of the clamping block 4148 so as to support the descaling roller such that the descaling roller does not touch the clamping block 4148. The clamping blocks 4148 at both ends of the support block body 4147 are respectively inserted into the two guide shafts 4141 and slide along the guide shafts 4141. The elastic mechanism is arranged between the support block 4142 and the side bar 4110. In the present embodiment, the elastic mechanism adopts a disc spring, which may be termed a second disc spring 4145.
The limit block 4144 is fixedly arranged on the horizontal bar 4111. There are at least two limit blocks 4144. And the two limit blocks 4144 are each close to one support mechanism 4140. As shown in
The first frame 11 of the steel-plate surface descaler 1 is provided with a lifting-motor operating-position detecting switch, which may be, for example, a photoelectric switch. Both the lifting-motor operating-position detecting switch and a lifting-motor controller are connected with a control center. When the lifting motor drives the descaling roller to descend to a preset position, the lifting-motor operating-position detecting switch detects and sends a signal, such that the control center stops the lifting motor from further operation, and the descaling roller stops descending. But if the lifting-motor operating-position detecting switch fails, the descaling roller continues to descend and to cause damage.
In light of the above situation, in order to prevent the excess pressure of the descaling roller during the roller-changing operation (that is, the failure of the lifting-motor operating-position detecting switch causes the lifting motor to have excess pressure), a limit detector (a photoelectric sensor, which is not illustrated) is further installed on the support blocks 4142, and an alarm (not marked in the figures) is installed on the side bar 4110 of the moving seat. As the limit detector detects the pressing of the scale-broking roller, the support block 4142 moves for a distance facing the side bar 4110. When the support block 4142 moves to a preset limit distance, the alarm is triggered, and the control center stops the device from further operation, which protects the device effectively.
Furthermore, there is also a bearing-seat avoiding area 4113 next to the descaling-roller supporting area 4112. The bearing-seat avoiding area 4113 is located between the main shaft 416 and the descaling-roller supporting area 4112. A stopper block 4146 is fixed in the bearing-seat avoiding area 4113 where it is close to the main shaft 416, and the stopper block 4146 is also fixed on a fixed bar 4111. When one of the bearing bases on the chief operating beam 132 falls into the bearing-seat avoiding area 4113, the stopper block 4146 exactly abuts the bearing base, preventing it from moving in the axial direction and from touching the main shaft 416, whereas the other bearing base is outside the moving seat 411.
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The steel plate enters the steel-plate side-surface descaler through the guide shaft, and the roller-seat cylinder pushes the operating-roller seat to move inward until the descaling roller contacts the side surface of the steel plate. The guide-wheel driving mechanism drives the guide wheel to move inward to abut firmly against the steel plate. At this time, the descaling roller performs the descaling treatment on the side surface of the steel plate. When the abrasive steel plate on the surface of the descaling roller is worn off to a certain degree, causing the descaling of the side surface of the steel plate to be ineffective, the guide-wheel driving mechanism drives the guide wheel to move outward. Under the operation of the roller-seat cylinder, the operating-roller seat moves inward until the abrasive steel plate on the surface of the descaling roller again comes into close contact with the side surface of the steel plate. The outward movement of the guide wheel and the inward movement of the operating-roller seat are synchronized, and the guide wheel is kept at all times in the state of clamping both sides of the steel plate. And such automatic adjustment enables the descaling roller to perform the descaling effectively at all times.
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201910947017.0 | Oct 2019 | CN | national |
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205129580 | Apr 2016 | CN |
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