Unloading Device for a Processing Device for Processing Pipes and Related Methods
AssigneeTRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
InventorsRalf Schopf, Florian Jarsch
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Abstract
The invention relates to an unloading device for a processing device for processing pipes by cutting, having a catching lance which is movable in the longitudinal direction of a pipe and which is insertable into the interior of a pipe to be processed. The unloading device includes at least one vertically movable, especially roller-shaped, support element for supporting the catching lance and/or includes a vertically movable depositing surface for depositing at least one pipe portion to be severed from the pipe during processing by cutting. The invention also relates to a method for processing a pipe by cutting by a processing device with which such an unloading device is associated.
Claims15
An unloading device for a processing device for processing pipes by cutting, the unloading device comprising:
- a catching lance which is movable in a longitudinal direction of a pipe to be processed and which is insertable into an interior of the pipe;
- and
- at least one of:
- a vertically movable support element for supporting the catching lance and/or a vertically movable depositing surface for depositing at least one pipe portion to be severed from the pipe during processing by cutting.
A method for processing a pipe by cutting using a laser processing device with an unloading device, the method comprising:
- inserting a catching lance into an interior of a pipe that is to be cut, until a collecting aperture of the catching lance is positioned at a processing site of a laser beam,
- moving at least one of a support element and a depositing surface in the vertical direction until the catching lance and/or at least one pipe portion to be severed is supported,
- severing the at least one pipe portion from the pipe using the laser beam, and
- withdrawing the catching lance from the pipe portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.