TWI458575B - Combined magazine, tool set and its assembly method - Google Patents

Description

Combined tool magazine, knife sleeve unit and assembly method thereof

The invention relates to a tool magazine for a cutting center machine, in particular to a combined tool magazine, a knife sleeve unit and an assembly method thereof.

A general cutting center machine is provided with an automatic tool changing device in response to various processing conditions, and a tool magazine device capable of mounting various tools is provided in the automatic tool changing device, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, The utility model is a conventional tool magazine device 80. The tool magazine device 80 includes a tool magazine body 81, and the tool magazine body 81 is provided with a metal casting and ring-shaped tool magazine 82, and a plurality of The inner circumference of the magazine disk 82 is a circumferentially disposed knife sleeve unit 83 and two curved rails 84 arranged on the outer circumference of the magazine disk 82. The magazine disk 82 has a shaft hole 821 formed in the center. The stencil disk 82 is disposed on one of the rotating shafts 811 of the tool body 81, and the rotating shaft 811 is rotated to drive the entire stencil disk 82 to rotate. The metal sleeves are coupled to the magazine disk 82 in a screw-lock manner, and the knife sleeve units 83 are placed on the two slide rails 84 and are relatively slid. The knife sleeve units 83 can be combined with various cutters. The tool change operation is performed in conjunction with the rotation of the magazine disk 82.

The conventional tool magazine device 80 has the following problems in practical application:

1. The conventional 82-tool magazine has a complicated structure and a large number of parts. It is difficult to process and requires high processing precision. It needs to be processed through precision machining tools. The production and processing costs are high, and the finished product cost is high.

2, in order to support the bulky and bulky tool magazine 82, need The structure of the magazine body 81 is configured to be thick, and the unnecessary cost is additionally increased.

3. The procedure for assembling the knife pocket unit 83 to the magazine disc 82 is complicated and time consuming, and it is necessary to provide a screw lock component and a screw lock portion corresponding to each knife sleeve unit 83 and the magazine disc 82, whether in the Assembly or processing will increase costs.

4. Each of the sleeve units 83 and the two slide rails 84 are slidably rotated to cause friction between the respective sleeve unit 83 and the two slide rails 84 to generate noise and vibration, and the drive shaft 811 is also easily driven. The drive motor load is increased.

Based on the above problems, there is a need to improve and strengthen.

In order to solve the problems that the conventional tool magazine device has a complicated structure, is difficult to assemble, is bulky and cumbersome, and is easy to cause noise, vibration, and increased load on the drive motor of the rotating shaft, the main object of the present invention is to provide a lightweight and easy to assemble assembly. A combined tool magazine, tool holder unit and assembly method that is less prone to noise and vibration, and which can effectively improve the service life.

The technical means used in the present invention is to provide a combined tool magazine, comprising: a tool magazine disk, wherein an arc-shaped inner slide rail is disposed at a central position of the tool magazine disk and disposed on a periphery of the inner slide rail An outer slide rail and a sliding groove formed between the inner and outer slide rails, wherein the inner slide rail is coupled to the axial side surface to couple a plurality of pressure plates corresponding to the contour of the inner slide rail; a knife sleeve unit, which is made of engineering plastic and arranged side by side along the circumference of the magazine tray, each knife sleeve unit being provided on the rear side a rolling member, each of the sleeve units is disposed in a sliding groove of the cutter tray by a rolling member of each sleeve unit, and is pressed against the outer side of each rolling member by the plurality of pressing plates, so that each knife sleeve unit can be along The sliding groove of the tool magazine slides and rotates, and the respective knife sleeve units are positioned opposite each other in a concave-convex manner, and are fixed by a locking manner.

The technical means used in the present invention is to provide a knife sleeve unit, comprising: a knife sleeve seat, which is a block-shaped seat body made of engineering plastic, and the front side lower end of the knife sleeve seat is respectively different along the difference The horizontal direction correspondingly forms a concave portion and a convex portion, and has a hollow lightweight structure on the rear side of the knife sleeve seat, and a rolling member is disposed below the rear side of the knife sleeve seat; The lightweight hollow structure made of engineering plastic is pivotally connected to the rear side of the knife sleeve, and is in a rotatable shape.

The technical means used in the present invention is to provide a method for assembling a combined tool magazine, comprising the following steps: assembling a knife sleeve unit, and engaging a plurality of knife sleeve units made of engineering plastics in a side by side manner And two or two side-by-side knife sleeve units are fixed to each other by screw locking, and the plurality of knife sleeve units are connected to each other to form a circumferentially arranged pattern; the fixture is positioned to provide a plurality of arrays to form a radial shape. And an assembly fixture having a positioning hole of a specific angle, wherein one of the rolling elements on the rear side of the plurality of knife sleeve units is respectively aligned with the corresponding positioning hole, and the sleeve unit is pressed and fixed to the assembly fixture To adjust the angle; the tool magazine is assembled, so that the rolling elements of each knife unit are engaged in a tool magazine One of the sliding grooves is locked in an inner sliding rail by a plurality of pressing plates and blocks the outer side of the rolling members of the plurality of knife sleeve units, so that the rolling elements of the plurality of knife sleeve units slide in the sliding groove.

The technical means used in the present invention is to provide an assembly method of another combined tool magazine, comprising the steps of: positioning the fixture, providing an assembly jig having a plurality of positioning holes arranged to form a radial shape and having a specific angle, so that a rolling element on the rear side of the knife sleeve unit made of engineering plastic is aligned with the corresponding positioning hole, and the knife sleeve unit is pressed into and fixed to the assembly fixture to adjust the angle; the knife sleeve unit is assembled, The plurality of knife sleeve units are respectively engaged and docked in a side by side manner, and the two sets of side-by-side knife sleeve units are combined and fixed by screw locking, and the fixture positioning step is repeated, so that the plurality of knife sleeve units are sequentially arranged. Connected to each other to form a wraparound configuration; the tool magazine is assembled such that the rolling elements of the respective tool sleeve units are engaged in a sliding groove of one of the tool magazines, and are locked to an inner slide rail by a plurality of pressure plates and block the plural The outer side of the rolling elements of the knife sleeve unit causes the rolling elements of the plurality of knife sleeve units to slide in the sliding groove.

The present invention utilizes the provided combined tool magazine, tool holder unit and assembly method thereof to achieve the following enhancements:

1. The invention adopts a combined tool magazine assembled by a plurality of knife sleeve units and a tool magazine formed by engineering plastics, thereby greatly reducing the use of bolts and spring pins and the like, without the need of precision machining. It can greatly reduce materials and processing costs, easy assembly, and easy maintenance.

2. The combined tool magazine designed by the invention with standardization and light weight can achieve the purpose of small size and light weight, and can adopt a relatively thin and thin knife storage. The frame supports the combined tool magazine to reduce the cost and weight of the overall machine.

3. The invention rotates in a rolling manner by rolling parts of the respective knife sleeve unit, which is different from the conventional tool magazine disk directly linked to the rotating shaft to drive the rotation of the whole tool magazine device, and the rotation guiding diameter of each knife sleeve unit is The magnification is multiplied, so that each knife sleeve unit runs smoothly, the noise is reduced, and the load on the shaft motor is reduced, which can effectively improve the service life of the combined tool magazine.

4. The invention adopts the design of environmental protection and energy saving, so that the knife sleeve unit made of integrally formed and recyclable plastic is easy to be regularly maintained and recovered, and the structural design of the metal component is greatly reduced, which is more conducive to the international environment in response to energy shortage. The product has superior competitiveness and energy saving features.

In order to be able to understand the technical features and practical functions of the present invention in detail, and can be implemented in accordance with the contents of the specification, and further illustrated in the following preferred embodiments, the present invention is a combined tool magazine, For the knife sleeve unit and its assembly method, please refer to the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 8.

As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, the combined tool magazine of the present invention comprises a tool magazine 10 and a plurality of tool holder units 20, wherein: as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the tool magazine 10 is made of metal. The annular disk body integrally formed by casting is formed in the outer circumference of the tool magazine 10 and protrudes in the axial direction to form an arc-shaped retaining edge 11 , and a knife changing port 12 is formed at one end of the retaining edge 11 . For performing a tool change operation, an inner slide rail 13 having an arc shape and an outer slide rail 14 disposed on the outer periphery of the inner slide rail 13 are disposed at a central portion of the magazine disc 10, and the inner slide rail is disposed on the inner slide rail A concave sliding groove 15 is formed between the outer sliding rail 14 and the outer sliding rail 14 for sliding the knife sleeve unit to generate a rotation. A cutout driving hole 16 is formed in the notch of the inner and outer sliding rails 13 and 14 for connecting the driving device to drive the knife sleeve unit to generate an action, and the inner sliding rail 13 has a plurality of axial side surfaces combined with a plurality of a pressing plate 17 corresponding to the contour of the inner slide rail 13 and having an arc shape for fixing the pressing sleeve unit; as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the plurality of knife sleeve units 20 are along the tool magazine The inner circumference of the disk 10 is arranged side by side and is slidably rotatable along the sliding groove 15 of the magazine disk 10. The plurality of tool holder units 20 are made of engineering plastic and include a knife seat 21 And a cutter sleeve 22; wherein: as shown in FIG. 3, and defining a direction based on the orientation of FIG. 3, the sleeve seat 21 is made of engineering plastic, and has a wedge-shaped block of upper width and lower width. a seat body, the upper end of the front side of the sleeve seat 21 is formed with a recessed abutting groove 211 for arranging a cutter sleeve, and the lower end of the front side of the sleeve seat 21 is respectively corresponding to different horizontal directions Forming a concave portion 212 and a convex portion 213, the concave portion 212 and the convex portion 213 are both semi-cylindrical, and the convex portion 2 is formed on the convex portion 2 The 13 series has a through hole 2130 for penetrating the bolt and positioning, and a side surface of the sleeve portion 21 provided with the recess portion 212 has abutting portion 214 protruding in a horizontal direction, and the abutting portion 214 is at the abutting portion The front side of the 214 is provided with a pair of connecting holes 2140 right in the recess 212. The connecting hole 2140 is a hexagonal hole near the front side, and is a circular hole near the rear side, as shown in FIG. The rear side of the seat 21 has a hollow and lightweight structure, and the two wall surfaces of the upper end of the rear side of the sleeve seat 21 are respectively coupled and coupled with two fixing pieces 215, and the two fixing pieces 215 are disposed on the sleeve seat 21 A corresponding pivot slot 216 is defined in the lower portion of the sleeve sleeve 21, and a rolling member 217 is screwed to the connecting hole 2140 under the rear side of the sleeve housing 21, and the rolling member 217 is a connecting handle 2171. One end of the connecting handle 2171 is connected to the outer circumference and is provided with a thread on the outer end. A screw hole 2173 is defined in the roller member 217. The connecting handle 2171 is inserted into the connecting hole 2140 and fixed by a hex nut 218, so that the knife seat 21 can be supported by the rolling member 217. The roller 2172 slides in the sliding groove 15 to generate a turning motion; as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the tool sleeve 22 is a lightweight hollow structure made of engineering plastic, and the tool sleeve 22 is A pivot 221 is pivotally disposed in the pivot slot 216 of the sleeve holder 21, and is fixed to the sleeve seat 21 by the two fixing pieces 215 of the sleeve holder 21, so that the sleeve seat 21 can be pivoted. The grounding action can be placed in the abutment groove 211 of the tool holder seat 21. Since the structure and the use mode of the tool sleeve 22 are substantially the same as those of the prior art and are not the focus of the present invention, they will not be described again.

As shown in FIG. 5 to FIG. 7 , it is an assembly method of the combined tool magazine of the present invention, including the steps of assembly of the knife sleeve unit, positioning of the fixture, assembly of the tool magazine, and the like: assembly of the knife sleeve unit: the plurality of knife sleeves The unit 20 is configured to position the two recessed portions 212 and the perforations 2130 with the two sides of the sleeve unit 20, and respectively fix the connecting holes 2140 and the through holes 2130 of the sleeve unit 20 to each other. A bolt is passed through the corresponding connecting hole 2140 and the through hole 2130 and is locked to the screw hole 2173 of the rolling member 217 to fix the two knife sleeve units 20, and then the plurality of knife sleeve units 20 are sequentially connected to each other. Forming the surrounding arrangement; fixture positioning: providing an assembly fixture 30 having a plurality of positioning holes 31 arranged radially to have a specific angle, and rolling elements 217 of the respective knife unit 20 The positioning holes 31 are respectively aligned with the corresponding positioning holes 31, and the tool holder unit 20 is press-fitted and fixed to the assembly jig 30, so that the angle of each tool holder unit 20 can be limited by the assembly jig 30, and the accuracy is accurate. And can be saved The trouble of correcting the angles of the single tool holder unit 20; the assembly of the tool magazine: as shown in FIG. 2, the rolling elements 217 of the tool holder units 20 are engaged in the sliding grooves 15 of the tool magazine disk 10, so that the The rolling elements 217 of the plurality of knife sleeve units 20 are slidably opposed to the inner and outer sliding rails 13 and 14 , and are locked to the inner sliding rail 13 by the plurality of pressing plates 17 and block the plurality of knife sleeve units 20 . The rolling member 217 causes the respective pocket units 20 to be blocked by the plurality of pressing plates 17 without being detached.

The foregoing fixture positioning step is also capable of positively pressing the rolling member 217 of one of the sleeve units 20 into the positioning hole 31 of the assembly fixture 30 before the assembly step of the knife sleeve unit, and sequentially The knife sleeve unit 20 is assembled and coupled to the knife sleeve unit 20 fixed to the assembly jig 30, and the fixture positioning step is repeated, so that the plurality of knife sleeve units 20 are sequentially connected to each other to form a surrounding arrangement type, and other connections are continued. The steps are the same as described above.

As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 8 , the tool magazine 10 can be assembled and coupled to a tool magazine body 40, and the tool magazine 10 is driven out by a cam 41 of the tool magazine body 40. The driving hole 16 enables the cam 41 to be rotated by the driving motor, thereby driving the plurality of tool holder units 20 to rotate in the sliding groove 15, so that the plurality of tool holder units 20 can be rolled by the rear side. The rolling element 217 slides relative to the inner and outer slide rails 13, 14 of the magazine disk 10 to cause a turning motion.

The invention is a lightweight tool magazine device assembled by a plurality of knife sleeve units 20 made of engineering plastics, and simplifies the structure for the purpose of standardization and weight reduction, and can greatly reduce the tool magazine disk 10 and the The assembly member and processing required for the knife sleeve unit 20 saves production time and reduces manufacturing costs, and thanks to the lightweight design, each knife sleeve unit 20 can be directly attached to the magazine tray. 10 sliding and rotating, without using the central rotating shaft to drive the entire tool magazine 10 to operate, and also can reduce the vibration and noise generated by the friction between the respective knife unit 20 and the tool magazine 10, and can also improve the service life, and has considerable Help.

10‧‧‧Knife disk

11‧‧‧ 缘缘

12‧‧‧Changer

13‧‧‧Inside rails

14‧‧‧Outer rail

15‧‧‧Sliding trough

16‧‧‧ drive holes

17‧‧‧Press

20‧‧‧Knife unit

21‧‧‧Knife holder

211‧‧‧Abutment slot

212‧‧‧ recess

213‧‧‧ convex

2130‧‧‧Perforation

214‧‧‧ Adapter

2140‧‧‧Connection hole

215‧‧‧Fixed tablets

216‧‧‧ pivot slot

217‧‧‧ rolling parts

2171‧‧‧Connection handle

2172‧‧‧Roller

2173‧‧‧ screw holes

218‧‧‧Hex Nuts

22‧‧‧Tool sleeve

221‧‧‧ pivot

30‧‧‧Assembled fixtures

31‧‧‧Positioning holes

40‧‧‧Knife Library Ontology

41‧‧‧ cam

80‧‧‧Knife library installation

81‧‧‧Knife Library Ontology

811‧‧‧ shaft

82‧‧‧Knife disk

821‧‧‧ shaft hole

83‧‧‧Knife unit

84‧‧‧rails

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is an external view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an exploded view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an external view of the knife unit of the present invention.

Figure 4 is an exploded view of another perspective view of the knife unit of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view showing the assembling operation of the knife sleeve unit and the assembly jig of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view showing the assembly operation of the plurality of tool holder units of the present invention combined with each other in the assembly jig.

Figure 7 is a front elevational view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a schematic view showing the turning operation of each of the knife sleeve units of the present invention.

Figure 9 is a front elevational view of a conventional tool magazine assembly.

Fig. 10 is a schematic view showing the rotary operation of the conventional tool magazine device.

10‧‧‧Knife disk

11‧‧‧ 缘缘

12‧‧‧Changer

13‧‧‧Inside rails

14‧‧‧Outer rail

15‧‧‧Sliding trough

16‧‧‧ drive holes

17‧‧‧Press

20‧‧‧Knife unit

21‧‧‧Knife holder

22‧‧‧Tool sleeve

Claims (10)

The utility model relates to a combined tool magazine, comprising: a tool magazine disk, wherein an inner slide rail having an arc shape and an outer slide rail disposed at a periphery of the inner slide rail are disposed at a central position of the cutter disc, and A sliding groove is formed between the outer sliding rails, and the inner sliding rail is coupled with a plurality of pressing plates corresponding to the contour of the inner sliding rail on the axial side surface; the plurality of knife sleeve units are made of engineering plastics And the sleeves are arranged side by side along the circumference of the magazine tray, and each knife sleeve unit is provided with a rolling member on the rear side, and each knife sleeve unit is disposed on the cutter tray with the rolling elements of each knife sleeve unit The sliding groove is pressed against the outer side of each rolling piece by the plurality of pressing plates, so that the respective tool sleeve units can be slid and swung along the sliding groove of the tool magazine, and the respective sleeve units are connected by bumps and bumps. Position each other and fix them in a locked manner. The combination tool magazine of claim 1, wherein the plurality of tool holder units comprise a tool holder and a tool sleeve, the tool holder is provided with the rolling member under the rear side, the tool sleeve The pivoting member is coupled to the rear side of the knife sleeve and is in a rotatable manner. The combined tool magazine of claim 2, wherein the front side lower end of the tool holder is formed to form a concave portion and a convex portion respectively in different horizontal directions, and the concave portion and the convex portion are each half In the cylindrical shape, the plurality of knife sleeve units are positioned by the two pairs of the concave portion and the convex portion of the sleeve holder. A knife sleeve unit comprises: a knife sleeve seat, which is a block-shaped seat body made of engineering plastic, and a front side lower end of the knife sleeve seat is respectively formed with a concave portion and a convex portion respectively along different horizontal directions The part is hollowed out on the back side of the knife holder. The structure has a rolling member disposed under the rear side of the knife sleeve; a cutter sleeve is a lightweight hollow structure made of engineering plastic, and is pivotally coupled to the rear side of the knife sleeve. It is in a rotatable shape. The knife sleeve unit according to claim 4, wherein one side of the sleeve seat provided with the recess has abutting portion which is convex in a horizontal direction, and a pair of positive sides are arranged on the front side of the abutting portion The connecting hole of the recess is provided with a locking hole at a position near the outer edge of the upper end of the abutting portion, and the rolling member is disposed below the rear side of the abutting portion. The knife sleeve unit according to claim 5, wherein the concave portion and the convex portion of the sleeve holder are semi-cylindrical. The assembly method of the combined tool magazine comprises the following steps: assembling the knife sleeve unit, and arranging a plurality of knife sleeve units made of engineering plastics to each other in a side by side manner, and side by side in a screw lock manner The knife sleeve units are fixedly coupled to each other, and the plurality of knife sleeve units are connected to each other to form a circumferentially arranged pattern; the fixture is positioned to provide an assembly process having a plurality of positioning holes arranged to form a radial shape and having a specific angle. Having a rolling element on a rear side of the plurality of knife sleeve units respectively aligned with the corresponding positioning holes, and pressing and fixing the knife sleeve unit to the assembly fixture to adjust an angle; The rolling elements of each knife sleeve unit are engaged in a sliding groove of one of the tool magazines, and are locked to an inner sliding rail by a plurality of pressing plates and block the outer side of the rolling elements of the plurality of knife sleeve units, so that the plurality of cutters The rolling element of the sleeve unit slides in the sliding slot. The assembly method of the combined tool magazine according to claim 7, wherein two of the The screw locking manner of the knife sleeve unit is respectively aligned with a perforation by one of the connecting holes of the two sleeve unit, and a bolt is passed through the corresponding connecting hole and the through hole, and is locked to the rolling member. A screw hole is provided to fix the two knife sleeve units. A method for assembling a combined tool magazine, comprising the steps of: positioning a fixture, providing an assembly fixture having a plurality of positioning holes arranged in a radial shape and having a specific angle, so that a knife sleeve unit made of engineering plastic is One of the side rolling elements is aligned with the corresponding positioning hole, and the knife sleeve unit is pressed into and fixed to the assembly fixture to adjust the angle; the knife sleeve unit is assembled, and the plurality of knife sleeve units are arranged side by side. The manners are mutually engaged and docked, and the two sets of side-by-side knife sleeve units are combined and fixed by screw locking, and the fixture positioning step is repeated, so that the plurality of knife sleeve units are sequentially connected to each other to form a surrounding setting type; The disk assembly is such that the rolling elements of the knife sleeve units are engaged in a sliding groove of one of the tool magazines, and are locked to an inner sliding rail by a plurality of pressing plates and block the outer side of the rolling elements of the plurality of knife sleeve units, so that The rolling elements of the plurality of knife sleeve units slide in the sliding groove. The assembly method of the combined tool magazine according to claim 9, wherein the screw locking manners of the two knife sleeve units are respectively aligned with a perforation by one of the connecting holes of the two knife sleeve units, and are passed through by a bolt. Correspondingly, the connecting hole and the through hole are locked to one of the screw holes of the rolling member to fix the two tool holder units.