Method and device for adjusting a flexer station during the rounding of metal sheets
AssigneeSoudronic AG
InventorsPeter Hug, Daniel Dieterich
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Abstract
During the bending of sheet metal sections (1, 2) in particular for forming can edges using a bending machine, the sheet metal is pre-treated at a flexing station (50) before reaching the bending station. The contact position (x, y, y′) of a sheet on a measuring plate (38) is measured and the signal representing the contact position is reproduced on a display (25), enabling the operator to adjust at least one element (7, 8, 9, 20) of the flexing station in accordance with the deviation of the actual contact position from the target contact position, either manually or by means of a drive. The signal can also be used to automatically adjust at least one element of the flexing station.
Claims7
A flexer station (50) for the pre-treatment of metal sheets (1, 2) to be rounded in a rounding apparatus (4),
- wherein in the flexer station a target impact position (x) of a metal sheet on a measurement plate (38) is ascertainable as a reference for the adjustment of at least an adjustable element (20, 9, 7) of the flexer station, and
- wherein the impact position (y, y′) of the metal sheet on the measurement plate is determined by means of a sensor arrangement (45, 38) during the motor-driven passage of the metal sheet through the flexer station, by means of which a signal showing the impact position is provided, by means of which the impact position or a value derived therefrom is representable on a display device (25) and/or by means of which an element of the flexer station determining the pre-treatment of a metal sheet through the latter is adjustable by means of a controller (5) and an actuator in such a way that a deviation from the target impact position in the direction of the passage of the metal sheet is diminished for the subsequent metal sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.