Feed drive for a cold pilgering mill
AssigneeSandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH
InventorThomas Froböse
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Abstract
The state of the art discloses cold rolling mills comprising a roll stand, at least one roll rotatably mounted to the roll stand, a feed clamping saddle for feeding a blank, and a first drive for the feed clamping saddle. Those cold rolling mills have ball spindle drives with a high rate of wear as the drive for the feed clamping saddle. In comparison the object of the present invention is to provide a cold rolling mill whose drive for the feed clamping saddle involves no or only very slight wear and which in addition permits a slow movement of the feed clamping saddle. According to the invention that object is attained by a cold rolling mill which has a direct electromechanical linear drive for the feed clamping saddle.
Claims9
A cold rolling mill, comprising:
- a reciprocating roll stand,
- at least two calibrated rolls rotatably mounted to the roll stand,
- a feed clamping saddle for feeding a blank, and
- a first drive for the feed clamping saddle,
- wherein the first drive has at least one direct electromechanical linear drive driving the feed clamping saddle without conversion of a rotary movement into a translational movement,
- wherein the first drive also has a brake,
- wherein the brake is a damping pneumatic or hydraulic system having a piston and a cylinder, wherein the piston or the cylinder is attached to the feed clamping saddle, wherein the damping pneumatic or hydraulic system acts in a direction parallel to a direction of the translational movement of the feed clamping saddle, and
- wherein, in a static condition of the direct electromechanical linear drive in which a rotor is not moving relative to a stator, the damping pneumatic or hydraulic system receives forces which act on the feed clamping saddle and damps a movement of the feed clamping saddle in at least one translational direction.
A method of cold rolling a blank by means of a cold rolling mill including a reciprocating roll stand, at least two calibrated rolls rotatably mounted to the roll stand, a feed clamping saddle for feeding the blank, and a first drive for the feed clamping saddle, the method comprising:
- stepwise feeding the blank in a first direction to the at least two calibrated rolls, wherein feeding is implemented by means of the first drive for the feed clamping saddle for feeding the blank, and wherein the first drive comprises at least one direct electromechanical linear drive and a brake and the at least one direct electromechanical linear drive drives the feed clamping saddle without conversion of a rotary movement into a translational movement;
- between steps of the stepwise feeding of the blank, preventing a translatory movement of the blank in a second direction by the brake, wherein the second direction is opposite to the first direction;
- wherein the brake is a damping pneumatic or hydraulic system having a piston and a cylinder, wherein the piston or the cylinder are attached to the feed clamping saddle, and wherein the damping pneumatic or hydraulic system acts in a direction parallel to a direction of the translational movement of the feed clamping saddle;
- and
- in a static condition of the direct electromechanical linear drive in which a rotor is not moving relative to a stator, receiving forces which act on the feed clamping saddle by the damping pneumatic or hydraulic system and preventing a translatory movement of the feed clamping saddle by the brake.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.