Systems and methods for shaping materials
OwnerThierry Rozotinventor
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Abstract
Shaping systems and methods suitable for cutting a material, and deburring devices for performing a deburring operation on an edge of the material. Such deburring devices include a manifold having at least first, second, and third nozzles having first, second, and third axes on different first, second, and third planes, respectively. The first, second, and third nozzles are adapted to project first, second, and third gas streams therefrom in the first, second, and third planes axes. A mechanism is provided for orienting the manifold to project the first, second, and third gas streams at the edge of the material.
Claims21
A deburring device mounted on a shaping system for performing a deburring operation on an edge of a slit formed in a slab by a cutting operation performed on the slab by a cutting device of the shaping system as the cutting device travels in a travel direction, the deburring device being mounted on the shaping system so as to be behind the cutting device relative to the travel direction, the deburring device comprising:
- a manifold having at least first, second, and third nozzles having first, second, and third axes, each of the first, second, and third nozzles having a shape that defines a height and defines a width greater than the height thereof, the second nozzle being between the first and third nozzles so that the first and third nozzles are spaced apart from the second nozzle in oppositely-disposed lateral directions of the manifold, the first and third axes converging with the second axis toward a focal zone, the widths of the first, second, and third nozzles being disposed on different first, second, and third planes, respectively, the first, second, and third nozzles being adapted and shaped to project first, second, and third gas streams therefrom that have widths disposed in the first, second, and third planes axes, respectively;
- means for causing the deburring device to travel behind the cutting device in the travel direction;
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- wherein the first, second, and third gas streams are projected in the travel direction and toward a breakthrough point at a leading edge of the slit;
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- first and second oxygen-containing gases are supplied at different pressures to the first, second, and third nozzles to produce the first, second, and third gas streams.
A method of operating a deburring device mounted on a shaping system to perform a deburring operation at a breakthrough point at a leading edge of a slit formed in a slab by a cutting operation performed on the slab by a cutting device of the shaping system as the cutting device travels in a travel direction, the deburring device comprising a manifold having nozzles that each have an axis, the nozzles comprising at least first, second, and third nozzles that have first, second, and third axes, respectively, the second nozzle being between the first and third nozzles and the first and third nozzles being spaced apart from the second nozzle in oppositely-disposed lateral directions of the manifold, the method comprising:
- positioning the deburring device behind the cutting device relative to the travel direction of the cutting device so that
- the second axis of the second nozzle is parallel to the travel direction and directed at the breakthrough point of the slit, and the first and third axes of the first and third nozzles are at acute angles to the travel direction and directed at the breakthrough point of the slit;
- causing the deburring device to travel behind the cutting device in the travel direction;
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- discharging first, second, and third gas streams from the first, second, and third nozzles, respectively, that converge at the breakthrough point of the slit.
A deburring device adapted for performing a deburring operation on an edge of a material, the deburring device comprising:
- a manifold having at least first, second, and third nozzles having first, second, and third axes, each of the first, second, and third nozzles having a shape that defines a height and defines a width greater than the height thereof, the second nozzle being between the first and third nozzles so that the first and third nozzles are spaced apart from the second nozzle in oppositely-disposed lateral directions of the manifold, the first and third axes converging with the second axis toward a focal zone, the widths of the first, second, and third nozzles being disposed on different first, second, and third planes, respectively, the first, second, and third nozzles being adapted and shaped to project first, second, and third gas streams therefrom that have widths disposed in the first, second, and third planes axes, respectively;
- means for orienting the manifold to project the first, second, and third gas streams at an edge of a material;
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- first and second oxygen-containing gases supplied at different pressures to the first, second, and third nozzles to produce the first, second, and third gas streams, the first oxygen-containing gas being supplied to the second nozzle and the second oxygen-containing gas being supplied to the first and third nozzles, the first oxygen-containing gas being supplied to the second nozzle at a lower pressure than the second oxygen-containing gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.