Abstract:
This invention relates to a core removing device for removing, either upward or downward in accordance with the shape of the core, a core cut off from a work by wire cut electric discharge machining and the device includes a core removing unit (6) fitted to an electric discharge machine main body. When a first operation mode is selected in accordance with a code read out from a program after taper machining of a core (20) having an inverted trapezoidal section, the core is brought into close contact with a core suction portion (16) fixed to the piston (15) of the vertical cylinder of the core removing unit by the movement of the piston in a vertical direction and its rotation and the suction portion sucking and holding the core is moved up to pull up the core off the work (19). The core is then moved outside a core fall inhibition range by the horizontal movement of the piston (13) of a horizontal cylinder and is released from the core suction portion. When a second operation mode is selected in accordance with another code associated with the core (20) having a trapezoidal section, the core is held by the suction portion inside the work and under such a state, it is moved to a safe position where it does not hit a lower nozzle (8) or a lower work supporting it even when the core is dropped. Thereafter, the core is released from the suction portion and is permitted to fall by gravity. The core thus dropped is conveyed outside the inhibition range by a belt conveyor or a conveyor arm.
Abstract:
A method of removing a cut-away piece, capable of simply and reliably removing the piece cut away from a work through a wire-cut electric discharge machining and a device therefor. Upon completion of the cut-away work of the piece (41), a restraining assembly (63) at the forward end of a piston (62) is disposed in the vicinity of the top surface of the piece under the control of a numerical control machine, thereafter, a working liquid is upwardly sprayed from a lower nozzle (19) toward the bottom surface of the piece, and the piece is held in the work in a state where it is separated from the lower nozzle and not removable upwardly from the work. With the working liquid being sprayed, a work table is moved horizontally, whereby the cut-away piece integrally with the work is separated from the lower nozzle horizontally. The table is stopped in its movement at a position in its moving where a jet stream of the working liquid normally ceases to act on the bottom surface of the piece, the working liquid is sprayed downwardly from an auxiliary nozzle (70) toward the top surface of the piece, so that the piece can forcibly dislodged down from the work.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a processing liquid circulation apparatus which can keep constant effective supply quantities of the processing liquid to a work bed while controlling variably the flow rates of the processing liquid supplied to a discharge machining zone, and which is moreover economical. The supply quantities of water have the processing liquid which is jetted to the discharge machining zone and to the work bed (12) through upper and lower nozzles (15, 16) and a spray (35) communicating with conduits (32b ∩ 32e) branched into two routes from a conduit (32a) connected to a tank (31) are regulated by a flow rate regulation valve (34) so that the two route supply quantities are inversely proportional to each other but their sum can be maintained. In rough machining, the jet quantity of water through the nozzle increases while the jet quantity through the spray decreases and at the time of shift from this rough machining to finish machining where the jet quantity through the nozzle decreases but the jet quantity through the spray increases, the effective supply quantity of water to the work bed from both the nozzle and the spray does not change so that any thermal deformation does not occur substantially, hence deformation of the work (40) and eventually, the change of the relative position between the work and a wire electrode (50), are prevented and the discharge machining can be conducted highly accurately.
Abstract:
In a wire cut electric discharge machine, a wire electrode (24) after completion of the discharge machining is discarded as a used wire (24a). In this case, the spring-up characteristics of the used wire (24a) can be prevented by feeding the used wire (24a) into a wire recovery box (38) while rotating the recovery box (38). Accordingly, the used wire can be recovered efficiently.
Abstract:
A mechanism for supplying processing liquids for carrying out the roughing and finishing steps in a wire cut electric discharge process, consisting of two processing liquid supply passage systems, i.e. a roughing liquid supply system (20) and a finishing liquid supply system (60) which are provided in a processing section (14) of a wire cut electric discharge machine (10), the roughing liquid supply system (20) being provided with a first processing liquid vessel (26) having a processing powder filtration unit (30), and a first water treatment control circulation passage having a specific resistance detector (34), a cooler or a heater (42, 44), an ion exchange unit (52) and pumps (40, 58), the finishing liquid supply system (60) being provided with a second processing liquid vessel (66) having a processing liquid filtration unit (70), and a second water treatment control circulation passage having a specific resistance detector (74), an ion exchange unit (92), a cooler or a heater (42, 44) and pumps (40, 98).
Abstract:
A mechanism for feeding wire in a wire cut electric discharge machine, in which a wire electrode (P) cut during the discharge machining is rewound on a reel (1) for supplying wire electrode so that said electrode can be easily connected. This mechanism has a clutch (3) of which an output shaft (5) is coupled to the reel for supplying the wire electrode and the coupling torque between the input and output members (3a, 3b) changes depending upon the supplied voltage, and has a geared motor (M) coupled to an input shaft (6) of the clutch. When the wire electrode is cut, the supplying reel is coupled to the geared motor at rest via the clutch that is served with a high voltage to firmly couple the input and output members together. Therefore, the reel is not allowed to make idle running. The supplying reel is then driven by a predetermined torque at a slow speed by the geared motor via the clutch which is served with a decreased voltage and which is loosely coupling the input and output members, whereby the wire electrode is rewound.
Abstract:
An initial hole machining device (40) for a wire-cut electric discharge machine, which is disposed adjacent to a wire guide (28) to improve the efficiency of machining of the wire-cut electric discharge machine and is intended to prevent the interference relative to the peripheral mechanisms inclusive of the wire guide. The machining device is provided with a frame unit (42) which is movably mounted on a vertically moving unit (24) of vertically feeding mechanisms (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) of the electric discharge machine, an initial hole machining unit (50) which is slidably mounted on the frame unit so as to be movable between a position of machining an initial hole and a position of retreat, and springs (56a, 56b) that urge the machining unit toward the position of retreat. Movement of the initial hole machining unit is controlled by supplying or interrupting compressed air to an air cylinder (48) which drives the machining unit toward the position of machining an initial hole against the force of the springs. Therefore, the initial hole machining device is simple in construction and operation, exhibits excellent durability in an environment where a machining liquid is used, and contributes to energy saving.
Abstract:
In an electrospark machining apparatus using a wire electrode (22), at least a lower wire electrode guide unit out of upper and lower wire electrode guide units (38, 20) which have machining liquid supply nozzles is provided with an outer cylindrical structure (60), which has a machining liquid ejection tube (62) fitted around a wire electrode guide unit body (44), and which is movable between two positions, i.e. a machining position, in which the outer cylindrical structure (60) engages a positioning groove (54) in the outer circumferential surface of the wire electrode guide unit body (44) to approach a workpiece W, and a wire electrode-repairing position, in which the outer cylindrical structure (60) disengages from the positioning groove (54) to move away from the workpiece W.
Abstract:
This invention provides a wire recovery method and apparatus therefore which can store orderly used wires, has a large wire storage capacity and can therefore provide an unmanned operation of a wire cut electric discharge machine for a long period. A wire feed speed instructed by a machining program is divided by a target wire winding radius set in advance to calculate a target drum angular speed providing a wire winding speed which is in conformity with a wire feed speed at this target radius (S4), and a wire storage drum is rotated at the target drum angular speed by a speed controller responsive to an instruction representing this calculated value through a motor (S7). As a result, the used wire is recovered into a drum while being laminated on a circular orbit inside the drum having an equal radius to a target radius.
Abstract:
When the wire electrode (W) of a wire cut electric spark machine is broken during tapering by electric spark machining, the wire electrode (W) is smoothly pulled up without being caught in the groove while the work (P) is being processed, by a method wherein the upper wire guide (12) is positioned in the processing condition, a predetermined voltage is applied across the work (P) and the upper wire electrode (W), and the wire electrode (W) only is pulled up, so that the broken end is pulled up out of the work (P). When the work (P) and the wire electrode (W) is no more under the short-circuited condition, the upper wire guide is raised so that the broken end of the wire is detected by a wire detecting means.