Abstract:
A uniform-pressure press apparatus has a single or a plurality of liquid-in-pressure equalizing chambers independently provided in at least one of a pressure-receiving frame and a movable table to allow an operation surface to serve as a floating plate, thereby to correct any deflection produced in the pressure-receiving frame and the movable table.
Abstract:
A fluid powered compression molding press or the like in which members such as platen members are movable relatively toward one another to develop high pressures therebetween, such as for instance forming a workpiece or work material in a compression die, and including means for compensating for tilting movement of the movable member relative to the other member by creating a force moment acting on the movable member in a direction opposite to the direction of tilting movement. The compensating means includes leveling units adapted for engaging coaction with the movable member and coupled into a closed fluid system including slave units and a control unit operatively connected together, whereby the control unit operates to generate reaction pressure in the respective leveling unit via the respective of said slave units.
Abstract:
A plurality of fluid-operated rams, e.g., for positioning the rolls of a sheet-metal bending machine, are each actuated by a respective servovalve and are each connected to a respective potentiometer whose output resistance varies in accordance with the position of the ram. The rams are grouped in pairs and one potentiometer of each pair is energized with positive voltage, the other with negative voltage so that a combined signal can be produced indicating the relative positions of the two rams of the pair. The combined signal representing the position deviation is fed to two separate amplifiers where it is combined with voltages of opposite polarity and then fed to the servovalves of the pair of rams. Thus the one servovalve is closed partially if its ram advances on the other ram. Similarly a plurality of such rams can be interconnected with all but at most two rams from two different pairs so that all ram positions will be equalized.
Abstract:
The tie rods have first ends anchored to a base plate, and a first tool support is movable along the tie rods. A second tool support is mounted on the tie rods adjacent the opposite ends thereof, and a toggle type locking mechanism is connected between the base plate and the first tool support and operable to lock the first tool support in closing relation with the second tool support. Respective hydraulic cushions are provided between the second tool support and the opposite ends of the tie rods, and a hydraulic pressure limiting device is connected to a hydraulic line interconnecting the hydraulic cushions. The hydraulic cushions may be provided by pistons on the opposite ends of the tie rods and engaged in respective cylinders. A safety circuit may be provided, including a pressure controller associated with a common connection line and a switch responsive to the travel position of the movable first tool support.
Abstract:
The ram attitude system of U.S. Pat. No. 3,349,669 of Oct. 31, 1967 is made less critical as to adjustments by incorporating a novel valve assembly for each of the two pumps, the valve assembly associated with the pump supplying the leading hydraulic motor, causing a continuously increasing by-pass of said hydraulic motor with deviation of the ram of a machine, to set up corresponding corrective forces in a non-proportional manner but with no sharp changes in such corrective forces.
Abstract:
Apparatus for compensating for eccentric loads in forging presses and the like. The apparatus includes a plurality of hydraulic cylinders positioned about the press and connected between the platens. The cylinders are interconnected through a hydraulic integrating device so that if there are eccentric forces acting on the platens the forces within the hydraulic cylinders are automatically shifted to counteract the eccentric forces.