Abstract:
THE HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR A HYDRAULIC DRIVING DEVICE OF A BENDING PRESS INCLUDES TWO HYDRAULIC CONTROL CYLINDERS WHICH CO-OPERATE WITH THE UPPER JAW TO EFFECT VERTICAL RECIPROCATION OF THE UPPER JAW BETWEEN GUIDES THEREFOR. THE INVENTION PROVIDES FOR THE INCLUSION IN THE HYDRAULIC SYSTEM OF COMPENSATING CYLINDERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTROL CYLINDERS AND HOUSING PISTONS HAVING OPERA-
TIVE SURFACE OF EQUAL AREA AND WHICH BY CO-OPERATION WITH THE CONTROL CYLINDERS PREVENT JAMMING OF THE UPPER JAW IN THE GUIDES DURING RECIPROCATION OF THE UPPER JAW.
Abstract:
A press for fabrication of building components including: an upper platen; a lower platen; the upper platen and/or lower platen movable towards and away from the other; a first and second hydraulic device located on a base, each hydraulic device including; a cylinder; a piston located in the cylinder defining a first and a second chamber in the cylinder, the piston sealingly engaging the cylinder and movable in the cylinder; and a piston rod connected to the piston and extending through the second chamber to engage the upper or lower platen; a pump to pump hydraulic fluid into the first chamber of the first hydraulic device; and a valve in fluid communication with the first chambers of the first and second hydraulic devices to selectively withdraw hydraulic fluid from the first chamber of either or both the first and second hydraulic devices to align the upper and lower platens.
Abstract:
Press platens are maintained parallel in critical central regions proximate to a mold between the platens. Leveling cylinders acting between the platens to resist downward action of a central ram on a movable platen. Data identifying expected local platen deflection in response to various operating pressures of the leveling cylinders are recorded. For each leveling cylinder, the current operating pressure is determined and the relative spacing of the platens proximate to the leveling cylinder is sensed. The operating pressures of the cylinders are controlled in response to the sensed relative spacing of the platens and in response to the expected local platen deflection for each leveling cylinder at its current operating pressure to maintain a substantially parallel relationship between the platens proximate to the mold. The platen deflection data required for each leveling cylinder are obtained in a preliminary process involving operation of the platens to compress the mold, operating the leveling cylinders at their various operating pressures, and sensing and recording local platen deflection that results.
Abstract:
A mold aligning method and device for a compression molding machine which includes a bed, a plurality of uprights standing upright on the bed, a crown block joined to the tops of the uprights, a slide block guided for vertical sliding movement by the uprights, and a hydraulic cylinder actuator mounted on the crown block to drive the slide block for vertical sliding movement, for maintaining an upper mold attached to the lower surface of the slide block in parallel to a mating lower mold during a compression-molding operation. The mold aligning device includes a plurality of mold position adjusting cylinder actuators disposed on the bed, a plurality of position detectors associated respectively with the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators to detect the strokes of the latter, a hydraulic source for driving the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators, and a control unit for controlling the strokes of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators with reference to the zero points of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators determined beforehand. The zero points are determined by placing the upper mold in close contact with the lower mold and extending the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators so that the piston rods are pressed against the lower surface of the slide block. The strokes of the piston rods are controlled during a compression-molding operation so that the upper mold is maintained precisely in parallel with the lower mold.
Abstract:
A hydraulic press includes a press plate mounted for executing working strokes and return strokes; a hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder supported at an end zone of the working stroke for engaging the press plate at an end portion of the working stroke to cause deceleration of the press plate by the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder; and a hydraulic shock absorber connected between the press plate and the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder. The hydraulic shock absorber is arranged for compression from an expanded state by the press plate in an end zone of the working strokes. The hydraulic shock absorber has a shock absorber chamber containing hydraulic fluid; a throttle for setting a braking force in the shock absorber chamber to a magnitude smaller than the braking force of the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder; and a resetting arrangement for returning the shock absorber into its expanded state.
Abstract:
A system for damping abrupt movement of a punch press ram at the moment of cut-breakthrough with the use of at least two damping pistons disposed within cylinders and arranged to engage the press ram before and during cut-breakthrough. The cylinders within which the damping pistons are carried are connected to a hydraulic control system which permits the pistons to yield with the ram until the instant of cut-breakthrough, whereupon the damping pistons act as rigid bodies and prevent abrupt breakthrough movement of the ram.