Device that feeds an elongated workpiece to a forming machine, retrofit kit, forming installation, and method of operating a device
AssigneeWAFIOS Aktiengesellschaft
InventorUwe-Peter Weigmann
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Abstract
A device that feeds an elongated workpiece to a forming machine includes a reeling unit with a frame and a reel carried by the frame and accommodates a workpiece supply formed as a coil of workpiece material. The reel is mounted rotatably about a reel axis relative to the frame. The device has a weight-distribution sensing device set up to sense a lateral distribution of a reel weight with respect to the reel axis, the reel weight representing a weight of the reel with or without an accommodated coil.
Claims20
A device that feeds an elongated workpiece to a forming machine that has a drawing-in device that draws in the fed workpiece and conveys the workpiece to a tool area of the forming machine, comprising:
- a reeling unit with a frame and a reel carried by the frame and accommodates a workpiece supply formed as a coil of workpiece material, the reel being mounted rotatably about a reel axis relative to the frame,
- wherein
- the device has a weight-distribution sensing device set up to sense and determine a lateral distribution of a reel weight with respect to the reel axis, the reel weight representing a weight of the reel with or without an accommodated coil.
A retrofit kit that retrofits a basic device designed to feed an elongated workpiece to a forming machine, the basic device having a reeling unit with a frame and a reel carried by the frame and accommodates a workpiece supply formed as a coil of workpiece material, the reel being mounted rotatably about a reel axis relative to the frame,
- the retrofit kit having components of a weight-distribution sensing device set up to sense a lateral distribution of a reel weight with respect to the reel axis, the reel weight representing a weight of the reel with or without an accommodated coil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.